4 Apr
2004
4 Apr
'04
8 a.m.
Americans shrinking as Junk food takes it's toll.
Today's issue of " The Observer" - fairly well respected Sunday newspaper-
tells us that the average American is shrinking , and puts the blame on junk
food amongst other things. The Dutch are now, on average, the tallest in
Europe and even us Brits are leaving you Yanks behind.
They blame this on the ever increasing social inequality in the US of A , -
8 Million with no job , 40M with no health insurance and 35M below the
poverty line. A population existing mainly on junk food ( so it says). It
has to be said that does not affect your better off people to the same
extent, nor is it a function of immigration. If a socialist state of sorts
would sort it out , I would say go for it .
From this side of the pond , Clinton had a great deal
of respect ( even
allowing for the peccadillos ).
Bush might as well be a raspberry farmer - that's all he gets over here. (
and apologies to raspberry farmers everywhere.) I would otherwise agree with
all the other things you say are wrong in your society ( and ours )- big
business runs riot.
If this is off topic , I didn't start it.
Geoff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)rddavis.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: FCC Licensing of Personal Computers
Quothe Joe R., from writings of Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at
09:05:01PM -0500:
animals:
Do you REALLY think anything will be different
under the democrats!?
Aside from a different Skullbone (Bonehead?) in Chief, there will be
at least one difference: the nation will move even closer to towards
being a complete totalitarian socialist state. Neither candidate
appears concerned with solving any of this nation's biggest ills such
as confiscatory levels of taxation (although people with very large
incomes and families with children get nice income tax breaks, the
rest of us get screwed to make up for it, and we're all equal victims
of the many other taxes), an increasingly annoying and dangerous
continued transformation of a once free nation that valued freedom and
liberty into a totalitarian "nanny state", overpopulation and
excessive land destruction ("development"), once safe and prosperous
cities that have been transmogrified into dangerous deteriorating
jungles (one can thank the promoters of a welfare state in exchange
for minority votes for that), excessive overseas job/career
outsourcing; grossly overpaid, corrupt and wasteful politicians; the
dangerous problem of middle-income salaries being eliminated with "job
growth" coming from low-paying service jobs, an out-of-control
pharmaceutical industry pushing certain unnecessary drugs off on
people who don't truly need them and are harmed by them---assisted by
politicians and physicians, a false economy based on growth rather
than stability, etc., to name just a few things that few US
politicians want to discuss.
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