2007-03-26 09:07:58 · 21 answers · asked by justgoodfolk 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Your GREAT America hs the highest infant mortality rate in the industrialised world and no that has nothing to do with abortions.Children born alive dying because of lousy living standards!
Hooray,you're number 1!
2007-03-26 09:10:16 · update #1
They refuse you nowhere in Europe in an emergency room.That's totally irrelevant
2007-03-26 09:20:01 · update #2
No country has a pure capitalist system. Given the choice, I'd take capitalism over communism.
Since you clearly hate the USA so much, I just threw out my Belgian chocolate. When I get home, I'll be pouring my Stella Artois and Chimay Cinq Cents down the drain.
You're showing your true communist colors today, JGF.
2007-03-26 09:15:36 · answer #1 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The US uses a different standard of infant mortaility than other countries.
For example, in america if a baby is born, takes one breath and dies, it's a counted.
In some other countties, that will be counted as a still-birth and wont count.
Also, some countries have specifics, say the baby must be a certain weight or length to be counted.
The US does not.
Thats causes some of the large differences.
2007-03-26 16:13:42 · answer #2 · answered by Labtec600 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
US (see below)
Hong Kong
Japan during the Meiji era
Since pure capitalism has been tried so few times the question is really more a matter of are the average people better off when the pendulum has swung toward a freer economy than a controlled economy in the same country (the examples are legion, and I'll give you Brazil, Mexico, China, India, Vietnam); one can also compare countries similar in every respect OTHER than degree of economic freedom - say Hong Kong versus China in the 1980s, or Singapore versus Thailand in the 1990s.
2007-03-26 16:13:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Capitalism is a theory. It hasn't worked in any country because it doesn't truly exist. Free markets do not exist in the United States. If they did the country would be in ruins.
For those that claim capitalism works in the U.S., just wondering what your thoughts are on government bailouts of various industries?
Was the savings & loan bailout in the late 1980s an example of pure-play, laissez-faire capitalism?
2007-03-26 16:32:10 · answer #4 · answered by Babu Chicorico 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Angola has the highest infant mortality rate in the world at 198 per thousand.
America is 184th at 6.5 per thousand.
2007-03-26 16:28:48 · answer #5 · answered by Carpe diem 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Western Europe and Japan operates fine under capitalism. Because modern capitalism works on a global scale, the winners and losers are no longer in the same country. Overall, capitalism has been very damaging, but plenty of individual countries have operated fine under a capitalistic system because the inevitable damage occurs on the other side of the world.
2007-03-26 16:12:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The USA. If you already live here, then try living in a socialist country where the government takes care of you from your birth until your death. Or, maybe live in a communist country, where you own nothing and have no say in your life. Go ahead, if the USA upsets you so much, then move. We don't care.
2007-03-26 16:14:25 · answer #7 · answered by Princess of the Realm 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm going to give you 3 because I feel magnanimous today!
1. The United States
2. Great Britain
3. Japan
2007-03-26 16:19:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Anything can work for a short period. It is only a matter of time before the American economy implodes. It is not sustainable in the long term the way it is now. Eventually something is going to have to change.
2007-03-26 16:13:20 · answer #9 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
1. America
2. Canada
3. Mexico
4. England
5. France
6. Spain
7. Japan
8. Australia
9. Mexico
10. Etc. Etc. Etc.
2007-03-26 16:11:51 · answer #10 · answered by infobrokernate 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋