[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-id] The Poverty of Heritage
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:02:23 -0700
But the evidence doesn't agree with your assertions. Statistics don't
support your prejudices. Anecdotal evidence doesn't trump statistical fact.
However, once again we may talking nuance. The U.S. & Western Europe have
similar systems and similar concerns. The poor in both regions are far
better off than in third world nations despite Leftist propaganda to the
contrary - according to the evidence. But Europe & the U.S. may have
different futures.
In my current reading about Western Europe I have encountered several
authors who believe Europe is a disaster about ready to happen. It is
doomed. We may as well give up on it. It is well on its way toward
becoming a collection of failed states with a few exceptions. They don't
know how to run their economies. They aren't managing their entitlements.
They don't know how to integrate their immigrants. They don't know how to
defend themselves, and they are in serious danger of reverting to something
akin to Fascism.
I read one author who argued that America should rescue Europe once again.
I don't think so.
Lawrence
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LH>I don't understand the reaction. These results are innocuous.
LH> The U.S. is the richest nation in the world by several orders
LH>of magnitude. Why should anyone be surprised that we are,
LH>well, rich? Why should anyone be surprised that our poor,
LH>defined as such by our own standards, are better off than the
LH> poor of other nations?
we are trying to tell you that your poor are poor. Certainly
poorer
than our poor.
Do you have any idea what an eye-opener Katrina was? *Third
World*.
Ye gods, Lawrence.
LH>Only those with a drum to beat, who want to demonize the U.S.
LH>would be disappointed and doubtful.
It isn't a matter of disappointment, it's a matter of concern for
your
poor.
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