Re: [A-List] Re: French Pension Strike

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, we were talking about France , not Europe in gnenral.  There is a
different between an error made in an informal post to a list and an
official statement on national TV.  At any rate, my error in math did
not invalidate my argument.  The same cannot be said about that of Hubbard.

And if that is the worst on my shortcomings, I thank you for the tacit
aproval.

Henry C.K. Liu

freak wrote:
> Just for the record, women are more than twice as likely to die
> giving birth in Europe than north america.
>
> This list has many great aspects, but people here are better
> than most at spinning facts to suit their purpose.  For instance
> Henry's recent comment about someone he didn't like being guilty
> of poor basic maths skills.  While earlier he neglected a simple
> calculation by multiples of 10 because it made his argument
> sound better.
>
> WHO stats:
> http://www.wpro.who.int/themes_focuses/theme2/focus3/trends/trends1.htm
>
> --- "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >     Just for the record, last year the World Health
> > Organization rated France as having the world's best
> > medical care system, high quality but reasonably
> > affordable and available to all.
> >      OTOH, the US has the highest percent of GDP spent on
> > medical care, but is embarrassingly far down the lists on such
> > things as life expectancy and infant mortality rates.  But, of
> > course, we are attempting to impose our system on others.
>
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