Re: [Marxism] Deaths in Iraq

[Intense Red <intnsred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 >> Fast fact: Babies born in Beijing, China have more than twice the chance
 >> of living for their first year compared to babies born in Washington, DC.
 > Does that mean that babies in Washington, DC have less than a 50%
 > chance of living for one year?  More than half of them die?

   Of course not.  If more than half of DC babies were dying, I hope it'd be 
widespread news.

   The statement is true: Babies born in Beijing has more than twice the 
*chance* of living their first year than do babies born in DC.

   In other words, we're talking about infant mortality rates -- the number of 
babies per 1000 that die in their first year in each city.   DC has an infant 
mortality rate of more than twice Beijing's.

Citations:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/opinion/12kris.html?ex=1263272400&en=c7ea472ff9651976&ei=5090>
 
points out Beijing's infant mortality rate is 4.6 deaths per thousand.

<http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/280411/dc_infant_mortality_rate_lowest_ever/index.html>
 
cites DC's infant mortality rate -- in an article bragging about it being 
lower than ever -- as 10 deaths per thousand.


-- 
Fast fact: According to former Wall St. Journal editor and Ronny Reagan's 
ass't secretary of the treasury, economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, the US 
manufacturing trade deficit is now twice the size of the US oil import bill.  


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