Re: NBC: What's next?

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:15:55 -0500, "Gumboman" <noemail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>You don't take into account what each country is trying to
>achieve and no one can argue that the European countries are not trying to
>build different types of societies than what smirk wants to build here in
>the states. Even though their economies don't perform as well under the
>statistics you choose to cite, they do much better in terms of providing
>adequate health care,housing, schooling, etc. than does the US for ALL their
>citizens.

Actually, the quality of housing stock in the United States is far
superior to that in Europe. And if I recall, a couple of summers ago,
about 15,000 elderly died in France and other parts of Europe during a
heat wave because their *superior" housing stock lacked air
conditioning and because most doctors were too busy away on vactaion
to be bothered to come back and help. An equivalent heat wave in the
United States probably wouldn't have even killed 100.
.

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