Kevin:

Why don't you help me out?

Zack
"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
news:bh74pc$up33v$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Zack wrote:
> > If America is doing so well as some posters have said, why is there
> > so much drug advertising on TV?   Doesn't wealth bring good health?
>
> Indeed. This health comes in part from pharmaceutical products.
>
> If America is doing so well as some posters have said, why is there so
much
> food advertising on TV?   Doesn't wealth bring full stomachs?
>
> > If people need to take all the medications you see advertised you
> > will certainly need to work a lot more hours than the average
> > European, that's for sure.   I think quality of live is something
> > that has been breed out of Americans, everyone needs lots of toys so
> > they can impress their family and friends.
>
> Those "toys" are part of what brings quality of life.
>
> > With all this talk about American's making the big bucks and being
> > lucky they work in a country that gives them so much opportunity, I
> > would like to know the following?
>
> Are you sure?
>
> > How much does the average European owe on their credit cards (CNN
> > said the average American owes $8900.00)?
> >
> > How much student debt does the average European student owe on
> > graduation compared to an American student?
>
> I don't know. Sounds like you have a research project on your hands.
>
> > Zack
> > "Omphalos" <omphalos@wp.pl> wrote in message
> > news:fc8fecc9724aaa7be94d968d44be8d48@free.teranews.com...
> >> On Wed 30 Jul 2003 06:56:26p, Pat Winstanley
> >> <wallopcods2003@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
> >> news:MPG.19925d72afe7d8cb98a60e@News.CIS.DFN.DE:
> >>
> >>> In article <1059575906.433730@clnsrv.libraryofconnecticut.org>,
> >>> schizam2001@yahoo.com says...
> >>>>
> >>>> "Pat Winstanley" <wallopcods2003@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> >>>> news:MPG.1990d854da7a21ea98a5cf@News.CIS.DFN.DE...
> >>>>
> >>>>> In article <bfv0la$j85nb$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>,
> >>>>> kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com says...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> But in the US the greater productivity is going to make the
> >>>>>>>>> already rich even richer.  Less of that earning actually goes
> >>>>>>>>> into the pockets of the earners.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> How so? The already rich are earners.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> They "earn" the wealth generated by others.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Why the scare quotes? It seems to me that they earn wealth by
> >>>>>> forming corporation and providing jobs. You nice little scare
> >>>>>> quotes suggest that there is something wrong or illegitimate
> >>>>>> about this. You can't honestly be objecting to anyone ever
> >>>>>> having an employee, right?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So... if you invest money in one or more companies and sit back
> >>>>> idly, living on the dividends you receive from your investement
> >>>>> but do no work... exactly what have *you* earned? And what *work*
> >>>>> did you do to earn those dividends?
> >>>>
> >>>> You took the risk of investing that money.
> >>>
> >>> So buying a lottery ticket or having a flutter on the horses is
> >>> work, is earning?
> >>
> >> The lottery is a complete gamble. Investing requires some skill and a
> >> little education.
> >>
> >>> Since when?
> >>
> >> You don't win prize money on the stock market.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Gowen
> "If it were before me today I would vote against it, because it doesn't
> have environmental or labor standards in it."
> - Sen. John Kerry, explaining to the AFL-CIO how he would vote on the
> North American Free Trade Agreement. Senator Kerry voted to ratify
> NAFTA in 1993.
>