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Date Posted: 05:23:42 08/09/00 Wed
Author: Brain
Subject: Re: Joe Libermen...the last second desperation shot of the Dem's...
In reply to: steve 's message, "Re: Joe Libermen...the last second desperation shot of the Dem's..." on 02:54:51 08/09/00 Wed

> Well, when I mean dumb I should say I am talking on
> the abstract level in purely intellectual matters(and
> in general, not specifically all of us, but the
> general american)...we are eaisly placated by the
> paper our goverment prints and a false sense of
> prosperity...in addition, I wonder what picture you
> would see if you broke it down into income
> distribution...
>
> ...If considering facts of per capita...remember the
> typical european gets at least 1.5-2 times the amount
> of time of through holiday, sick leave, and paid
> vaction that americans get...as far as oil prices,
> there are different taxes and distribution to
> different ports, most of the oil comes into countries
> from the middle east at a centralized point...and the
> opec nations influnce oil prices differently in
> different countries by controling the supplies at
> certain ports...the U.S. has many things to fall back
> on in dealing with opec, thus even when they are going
> to gouge prices, we will not get the worst
> results...further more, even when they are pissed at
> us and direct oil price gouging at us and our allies
> as they did in the 70's, we did not get the worst of
> it...

Hi Saint Stephen,
They had this report on German TV, they took 3 workers who almost had the identical job. One was from US another one was from Germany and the third one was from Japan. The American worker got paid best, he paid less taxes and could buy more for his money. My friend in Florida bought a house with swimming pool for 100.000$ a house that size in Germany would cost you about 400.000$. 15 years ago a nurse in US made twice as much as a nurse who worked in Germany. The sales tax in Germany is 16% except for books and art that are 7%. The German government gets more than 70% from the gasoline price. The highest income tax rate in Germany is more than 50%. The cheapest internet flat rate in Germany is 33$ a month.
Love, Peace and Enlightenment

Brain

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