Dear Parse Tree,
Obviously, you have never been outside the USA.
I lived in West Germany, prior to and during the Fall of the Wall. I
conversed in German with the German people, and was even "allowed" (read:
INVITED) into their homes). I ate at German restaurants. I shopped German
stores and drank at German bars. I can say, with DEAD CERTAINTY, that
Germany's homes are of MUCH HIGHER quality than US homes, and at a rate at
parity with German incomes. This is because Germans who study a trade are
first paid a wage that the German Government says is commensurate with that
trade, and second APPRENTICED under a MASTER until they achieve MASTERY of
their trade, usually taking about 3 to 5 years, often much longer depending
on the trade.
Translation: German manufacture is much better because their workers are
more highly educated and more highly skilled than the average American
laborer, who is often NOT apprenticed and only masters a skill by the seat
of his pants.
In the 1870s-1880s, during King Ludwig II's reign in Bavaria, Ludwig, a
liberal patron of the arts, commissioned Bavarian chemists to formulate
outdoor paints which could be used to paint beautiful murals on the sides of
prominent buildings, or which could be used to paint in solid colours.
These chemists went to work, very pleased with the pay they received from
the King's hand, and formulated outdoor paint which is the STANDARD for
outdoor paint on German buildings, because this formula lasts for YEARS
without much maintenance. American chemists could not come up with such a
formula if it stood on its head and slapped their knees.
In the bombing of Dresden, in WW 2, the explosive and incendiary bombs the
Americans used were 3 TIMES what could have been used in America to destroy
American buildings, yet some buildings were still standing even though they
were targets. Among the buildings reduced to rubble, the Germans kept every
blueprint, and reconstructed those buildings to exact specifications, using
the same or similar bricks, mortar, and steel used at the time of
construction. Can we say the same for the USA? This enabled the GERMANS to
not only scrimp and save money in reconstruction, but also to PAY OFF their
Marshall Plan debt well in advance of every other nation on the Plan!!!
Go take a vacation in Germany, and see their houses and buildings. See how
clean and well-kept and litter-free their streets are. Then come back to
America and vomit over the difference. Ask a German you befriend about his
personal savings, then compare that to your own. Be befuddled over how a
German of modest means can actually save money, while you, a college
educated and salaried employee, can barely scratch two pennies together.
Then tell us how great is the USA. Enjoy your vacation, and write us a
postcard!!
Sincerely,
Richard C. August
"Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
> news:xGV19.48957$Fq6.4303868 at news2.west.cox.net...> >
> > "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:tpE19.59$9g7.22300 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > > You have your date set incorrectly.
> > >
> > > "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
> > > news:8cC19.45114$Fq6.4020271 at news2.west.cox.net...> > > >
> > > > So tell us, parsetree, do you think we should believe the
affirmative
> > > action
> > > > hirees at the CIA who pad their figures with "purchasing power
> parity",
> > or
> > > > would you prefer ACCURATE data from independent, industry sources
> which
> > > use
> > > > REAL data?
> > >
> > > Corporations use figures that reflect PPP. It costs $299 for a PS2 in
> > > Canada, and $200 in the US. That's not the literal exchange rate.
> > >
> >
> > This isn't ppp. This is market pricing which is far more complex than
> ppp,
> > and has literally noting to do with ppp.
>> Actually, it has a lot to do with PPP. They don't want to price products
> out of the consumer's price range.
>> > > > If you want to know how misleading "purchasing power parity" really
> is,
> > > take
> > > > a look at Asia Week Magazine's "Bottom Line" at
> > > > http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0818/bottomline.html> > >
> > > Do you honestly think that $783 is an accurate depiction of China's
GDP
> > per
> > > person? I know that in NA you can't live off of that much money in a
> > year.
> > > It's literally impossible.
> >
> > No, it's not accurate at all. The REAL average income in China is $25
per
> > month, which is more than enough to live comfortably on. I know
Russians
> > who went to China so they could earn more money, because after 75 years
of
> > being controlled by the jews, the average income of Russians is now one
> > third of the Chinese.
>> So you seem to understand PPP with respect to China, but why not Japan?
>> Can you not conceive of a country with goods that cost more to buy than
> America?
>> > > > To be specific, Japan has a higher GDP per capita than the US, but
the
> > CIA
> > > > and other feminized American sources use ppp to penalize Japan to
> reduce
> > > it
> > > > from $34,715 to $23,480, based on the most senseless excuses, like
how
> > > long
> > > > students are in school, and a whole bunch of irrelevant tricks.
> > >
> > > It is incredibly expensive to live in Japan. Just like it is more
> > expensive
> > > to live in new york, rather than some little village.
> >
> > Yeah, right. If it's "incredibly expensive", then how exactly did the
> > Japanese manage to put FIFTY ONE PERCENT (51%) of their income into
> > personal savings in one month. You don't seem to be able to comprehend
> the
> > term
> > "percent", so let's break it down into something you feminazis may be
able
> > to appreciate: American dollars. In just ONE MONTH, the AVERAGE
Japanese
> > household ADDED another 554,351 yen to their personal savings accounts,
> the
> > equivalent of $5,039.
> > http://christianparty.net/japan1999income.htm> >
> > Do you understand how weak your argument about their "high prices" is?
>> Americans consume things that are not necessities. They also have much
> higher quality homes and many other things.
>> You know it's somewhat easy to survive on $10 000 a year, and yet many
> people make more than that and spend more.
>>> > > > The CIA doesn't report ANY data correctly, as they always use this
ppp
> > and
> > > > other "tricks" [read: LIES] in their reports. Where they report
> > > > Switzerland's GDP to be $22,600, their REAL GDP per capita is
$37,145,
> > > much
> > > > higher than ours at $28,600. Germany is penalized $3,000 for WHAT?
> > Their
> > > > cost of living certainly isn't higher, though their savings rate of
> 22%
> > is
> > > > literally *infinitely* higher than ours, since our personal savings
> rate
> > > is
> > > > NEGATIVE after all the interest on the humongous debts is paid.
> > > >
> > > > http://christianparty.net/bottomline.htm> > > >
> > > > http://christianparty.net/personalsavings.htm> > > >
> > > > The countries with the highest per capita incomes, like Kuwait and
> > Qatar,
> > > > aren't even on these lists. Why not? What does "planet101" hope to
> > hide
> > > > from you? Lookit how easy it is to LIE to you with statistics.
> > >
> > > "Purchasing-Power Parity (PPP) takes into account price differences
> > between
> > > countries to provide a more accurate picture of national wealth"
> > > From your vaunted Christian Party website. It seems even they
> understand
> > > PPP.
> >
> > What ppp does NOT take into account is far more important than what it
> DOES
> > take into account. It does NOT take into account that the Japanese pay
> only
> > 9.9% for taxes, yet they get dinged for having shorter school hours than
> us
> > (even though they scored 105 TIMSS math points higher at the 8th grade
> > level). It does NOT take into account that they SAVED ANOTHER $5,039 in
> > JUST ONE MONTH, but dinged them for their "high
> > prices".
> >
> > ppp is a complete and total jewish con job, just like cpi is.
>> No, it's not. You can't just blame anything that demonstrates you to be
> completely and utterly wrong on the Jews.
>> > > > The fact that we have a NEGATIVE personal savings rate means that we
> > have
> > > NO
> > > > private ownership of property, because the state now owns it all,
and
> > you
> > > > don't even realize it. This is FAR more important to determining
who
> is
> > a
> > > > "rich country" and who is not than "purchasing power parity".
> > >
> > > So now the United States has no private ownership?
> > >
> > > You just don't stop, do you?
> > >
> >
> > To have a "constitution" which calls for private property ownership at
one
> > end, and a government which takes so much of incomes that we have a
> NEGATIVE
> > personal savings rate at the other end, makes the mere concept of
"private
> > property" a sick joke.
> >
> > Don't rely just on this comparison to Japan. NO country, not even
> > non-industrialized countries, have NEGATIVE personal savings rates. Go
> down
> > the list http://christianparty.net/bottomline.htm . Singapore saves 52%.
> > Even Vietnam has a 7% savings rate, but they don't spend all of this
> paying
> > off HUGE debts, like the ones we have. Even Kenya saves 21%. South
Korea
> > saves 35%, and their debt is minimal compared to their savings.
Thailand
> > saves 37%.
>> Not even the US, according to that list. You save 15%.
>> Also, I looked at the GDP growth listed on that page for Canada, and it
> doesn't match the GDP growth given by any of the pages that are
referenced.
>> > We threw King George out over a 1% "tea tax", then implemented so many
> other
> > taxes that 43% of every American wage dollar is SPENT by government.
> > Feminazis just don't seem to understand, or at least appreciate, that
this
> > process takes so much out of an American workers' income that he has to
> > borrow ever more money just to pay it.
>> You really seem to inflate the number of goods that people need in order
to
> live.
>>>
