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Jan. 14th, 2009 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccLink to an article about pensions in the US.
"Under the circumstances, one of the great mysteries of contemporary American politics is why Wagoner [CEO of GM] isn’t the nation’s leading proponent of universal health care and expanded social welfare."
From 2006, for crying out loud.
And:
“Every country against which we compete has universal health care,” he said. “That means we probably face a fifteen-per-cent cost disadvantage versus foreigners for no other reason than historical accident. . . . The randomness of our system is just not going to work.”
Quoting Wilbur Ross, who restructured Bethlehem Steel post-bankruptcy.
(OK, I admit that the bit that intrigued me to start with was:
But when it comes to retirement, health, disability, and unemployment benefits there is nothing exceptional about the United States: it is average among industrialized countries—more generous than Australia, Canada, Ireland, and Italy, just behind Finland and the United Kingdom, and on a par with the Netherlands and Denmark.
Oh and:
In 1979, restrictions on contraception that had been in place since Ireland’s founding were lifted, and the birth rate began to fall. In 1970, the average Irishwoman had 3.9 children. By the mid-nineteen-nineties, that number was less than two.
1979?!? Holy crap.)
"Under the circumstances, one of the great mysteries of contemporary American politics is why Wagoner [CEO of GM] isn’t the nation’s leading proponent of universal health care and expanded social welfare."
From 2006, for crying out loud.
And:
“Every country against which we compete has universal health care,” he said. “That means we probably face a fifteen-per-cent cost disadvantage versus foreigners for no other reason than historical accident. . . . The randomness of our system is just not going to work.”
Quoting Wilbur Ross, who restructured Bethlehem Steel post-bankruptcy.
(OK, I admit that the bit that intrigued me to start with was:
But when it comes to retirement, health, disability, and unemployment benefits there is nothing exceptional about the United States: it is average among industrialized countries—more generous than Australia, Canada, Ireland, and Italy, just behind Finland and the United Kingdom, and on a par with the Netherlands and Denmark.
Oh and:
In 1979, restrictions on contraception that had been in place since Ireland’s founding were lifted, and the birth rate began to fall. In 1970, the average Irishwoman had 3.9 children. By the mid-nineteen-nineties, that number was less than two.
1979?!? Holy crap.)
