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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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nor have I any first-hand evidence that there is more violence against women in Korea than anywhere else. Of course, every c**t else like Junior and Real Reality see adjoshi belting the old sow about on a daily basis, but considering I've lived in Korea for one year and three months (admittedly that's not too long) the balance of probabilities alone suggests I should see some of this Korean brutality. I get out and about, go to gyms, walk around Seoul, travelled a bit elsewhere in the country, go out and get pissed in various places, live in the poorer area of Seoul (the northwest) compared to Kangnam, and all these acts of beastliness are nowhere to be seen.
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Ah, the old "I didn't see it so it doesn't happen" argument. Well done sir.
Domestic violence is highly unreported in Korea because the cops don't act on it. The see it as a "private problem" largely. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:20 am Post subject: |
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nor have I any first-hand evidence that there is more violence against women in Korea than anywhere else. Of course, every c**t else like Junior and Real Reality see adjoshi belting the old sow about on a daily basis, but considering I've lived in Korea for one year and three months (admittedly that's not too long) the balance of probabilities alone suggests I should see some of this Korean brutality. I get out and about, go to gyms, walk around Seoul, travelled a bit elsewhere in the country, go out and get pissed in various places, live in the poorer area of Seoul (the northwest) compared to Kangnam, and all these acts of beastliness are nowhere to be seen.
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Ah, the old "I didn't see it so it doesn't happen" argument. Well done sir.
Domestic violence is highly unreported in Korea because the cops don't act on it. The see it as a "private problem" largely. |
Screw you dude, if the ten ton idiot savant dont see it, then so be it. How dare you lie on the tracks of thomas the tank idiot! |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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Military Expenditures by country
#1 United States: $276,700,000,000.00
#2 China: $55,910,000,000.00
#3 France: $46,500,000,000.00
#4 Japan: $39,520,000,000.00
#5 Germany: $38,800,000,000.00
#6 United Kingdom: $31,700,000,000.00
#7 Italy: $20,200,000,000.00
#8 Saudi Arabia: $18,300,000,000.00
#9 Brazil: $13,408,000,000.00
#10 Korea, South: $13,094,300,000.00
The United States spends nearly 277 billion dollars a year on the military.
Yet, public education funding it drying up and schools are closing down... |
I will not defend the amount of $ the US is currently wasting on a stupid war. Nor will I argue that the US is spending enough on education (actually, they may be, but, as usual, it's being spent on the wrong things).
However, in all fairness, rather than throw out raw #'s, why don't we look at comparable statistics:
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Education Expenditures as % of GDP
#1 Cuba: 18.7%
#2 Vanuatu: 11%
#3 Lesotho: 10.4%
#4 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 10%
#5 Yemen: 9.5%
#6 Brunei: 9.1%
#7 Mongolia: 9%
#8 Denmark: 8.5%
#9 Guyana: 8.4%
#10 Malaysia: 8.1%
#11 Cape Verde: 7.9%
#12 Saint Lucia: 7.7%
#13 Sweden: 7.7%
#14 Barbados: 7.6%
#15 Norway: 7.6%
#16 Saint Kitts and Nevis: 7.6%
#17 Israel: 7.5%
#18 Namibia: 7.2%
#19 Swaziland: 7.1%
#20 Kenya: 7%
#21 New Zealand: 6.7%
#22 Morocco: 6.5%
#23 Finland: 6.4%
#24 Tunisia: 6.4%
#25 Bolivia: 6.3%
#26 Cyprus: 6.3%
#27 Belgium: 6.3%
#28 Jamaica: 6.1%
#29 Slovenia: 6.1%
#30 Belarus: 6%
#31 Iceland: 6%
#32 Malawi: 6%
#33 Lithuania: 5.9%
#34 Switzerland: 5.8%
#35 Portugal: 5.8%
#36 Latvia: 5.8%
#37 Estonia: 5.7%
#38 Austria: 5.7%
#39 United States: 5.7% |
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Military Expenditures as % of GDP:
#1 Korea, North: 33.9
#2 Mali: 15
#3 Saudi Arabia: 13
#4 Ethiopia: 12.6
#5 Oman: 12.2
#6 Eritrea: 12
#7 Qatar: 10
#8 Israel: 8.75
#9 Jordan: 8.6
#10 Maldives: 8.6
#11 Afghanistan: 7.7
#12 Bahrain: 6.7
#13 Armenia: 6.5
#14 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 6
#15 Syria: 5.9
#16 Kuwait: 5.5
#17 Angola: 5.4
#18 Burundi: 5.3
#19 New Caledonia: 5.3
#20 Yemen: 5.2
#21 Brunei: 5
#22 Greece: 4.91
#23 Singapore: 4.9
#24 Lebanon: 4.8
#25 Swaziland: 4.75
#26 Pakistan: 4.6
#27 Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 4.6
#28 Turkey: 4.5
#29 Bosnia and Herzegovina: 4.5
#30 Djibouti: 4.4
#31 China: 4.3
#32 Sri Lanka: 4.2
#33 Laos: 4.2
#34 Algeria: 4.1
#35 Egypt: 4.1
#36 Morocco: 4
#37 Libya: 3.9
#38 Tajikistan: 3.9
#39 Cyprus: 3.8
#40 Mauritania: 3.7
#41 Botswana: 3.5
#42 Ecuador: 3.4
#43 Turkmenistan: 3.4
#44 Colombia: 3.4
#45 Guinea: 3.3
#46 Zimbabwe: 3.2
#47 United States: 3.2 |
So the US is actually spending more (in terms of % of GDP) on education than military. |
I've always wanted to use this, but never had the chance until now...
Pwnt! |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:07 am Post subject: |
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I've always wanted to use this, but never had the chance until now...
Pwnt! |
Um... thanks. I think.  |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject: ... |
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Almost all of the money spent on education is from the states themselves.
See here:
http://www.policyalmanac.org/education/archive/doe_education_spending.shtm
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| By far, the greatest part of education revenues came from nonfederal sources (state, intermediate, and local governments), which together provided about $346 billion, or 92.7 percent of all revenues. The federal government contribution to education revenues made up the remaining $27 billion. |
So the states are spending this $, not the federal government.
If you look at the federal budget. Something like 40% is spent on the military while roughly a tenth of that ( $276 billion vs. $27 billion) is spent on education.
Just for the record. |
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