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It's the same fight | 94 comments (94 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: It's the same fight (none / 0)
If you are going to quote statistics about France, perhaps you should also look to similar stats about the U.S.  Should we start with the murder rate? the rate of incarceration? Unemployment in South L.A.?  Our defense budget?  I don't even need to look at the stats about these things because everyone knows that they are abysmal.  You are actually doing what you accuse the author of doing: quoting stats that make your argument.

To that end, here's a stat that shows 33% of people in Detroit live below the poverty line:http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/detr-s02.shtml

Or here's one:  45.8 million without health insurance.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/005647.html

It's from the U.S. government, so I'm not sure you can trust it.

by andrethegiant on Sun Mar 19th, 2006 at 08:36:34 PM EST
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I'm not quoting stats, I'm pointing to articles by an official* Socialist organ that makes the same statements, or mis-statemens, that Jerome is complaining about. He's arguing that the American left has drunk the Kool-Aid on this topic, which may be true but it's not surprizing that they would have, if the official leftist parties have, too.

*Actually I don't know whether the quoted web site is official in any particular way, or reputable...

by asdf on Sun Mar 19th, 2006 at 09:57:05 PM EST
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*Actually I don't know whether the quoted web site is official in any particular way, or reputable...

Thanks a million for the useful reference, asdf.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Mar 20th, 2006 at 02:23:14 AM EST
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It's the same fight | 94 comments (94 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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