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cunning_stunt
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Doesn't Canada have more millionaires per capita than the US? |
Per capita I think many countries have more millionaires . I know South Africa has the 4th most new millionaires every year on this basis . We are young , but we are learning . |
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Otus
Joined: 09 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: |
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I wrote:
"There are also more millionares in America than any other country - so - there are a lot of stupid rich people ... interesting"
Sorry, shouldn't have premised that - there's lots of stupid rich people ...
But to show statistics can be deceiving - With regard to Norway, the article reads:
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| When viewed in relation to the size of the population (around 4.6 million in Norway), there�s no other country that matches that level," Gullqvist said. |
When viewed in relation to the size of the population - is the key phrase
Does Canada actually have a greater number en mass? Still searching for that figure. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:54 am Post subject: |
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Frankly, you have to consider that many people who are educated in the United States do not know much about the outside world. That also applies to some people in the United Kingdom, plenty of people in Korea, but we are talking about Americans here. With so many Americans unaware when it comes to the differences between the various groups in the Middle East, it is rather easy to scare and fool the population. That is what happened. Bush did not win in 2000, but he won in 2004, because the people were afraid after September 11th and this included people who were quite educated in terms of having a B.A. or B.S. The majority of Americans (75%) supported going to war. If they knew more like some people in Europe who were getting different news i.e. the media was educating more about the issues, Bush wouldn't have been elected, and America wouldn't have troops in Iraq. That's my opinion, at least.
I thought the war was a mistake from the beginning and some oil reserves in exchange for a trillion in war spending didn't seem like a good prospect. |
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