"Richard C. August" <raugust at ptd.net> wrote in message
news:p2b%8.95$Fl.17779 at nnrp1.ptd.net...
> Dear Parse Tree,
>> US GDP has absolutely NOTHING, NADA, ZIP, ZERO to do with the FACT that we
> have 400 times as many lawyers as the Japanese. In the trade wars vs. the
> Japanese, guess who's winning and has been winning since the late 1970s?
> Let me give you a CLUE -- lawsuit happy people feed lawyers HUGE sums of
> money for PETTY little trivialities like being burned by a hot cup of
coffee
> coming out of a Mickey D's, and winning $8,000,000 as a result. Does THAT
> happen in Japan?? No.........
I would like to know what measure he was using that determined that Japan
had a high standard of living?
I'd also like to know where he got the idea that high population density was
a good thing.
The United States' largest trade partner is Canada, not Japan.
<Snipped irrelevant garbage>
>> "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:q%U_8.1083$sb5.339609 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > "Richard C. August" <raugust at ptd.net> wrote in message
> > news:0DS_8.1992$xN3.36794 at nnrp1.ptd.net...> >
> > > This is also EXACTLY why the USA has 400 times
> > > more attorneys than does Japan, and yet Japan has a higher standard of
> > > living and a higher population per square kilometer than we do.
> >
> > The US has a higher GDP per capita, and if you're going by the UN scale
> then
> > Japan is not really very high.
> >
> > > Regarding that woman who posted her personal ad on hotornot.com, the
> fact
> > of
> > > that matter is, she was MARRIED when the photo was taken, and an
astute
> > man
> > > can only consider her to be MARRIED NOW. "Married but looking" is the
> > RULE
> > > here, and it is called ADULTERY!!!
> >
> > Good for her.
> >
> > > Frankly, I no longer care to consider a girlfriend. Why should I
> bother?
> > > Why should I and millions of other men waste our time, talents,
> hormones,
> > > and body fluids on the dumbest cows in the universe, American women?
> Why
> > > should we bother WANTING women at all, when women obviously don't want
> us?
> > > A Monastery is the place to be, brother, where a celibate Christian
man
> > can
> > > really work on a relationship that counts, a relationship with
Almighty
> > God.
> > > A Monastery is also NOT a prison, which is invariably where many men
end
> > up
> > > after they have relations with women, anyway. Why not eliminate that
> > cause
> > > of imprisonment? Why not eliminate relations with women?
> >
> > You should eliminate relations. You seem to be under the misconception
> that
> > you have the right to a girlfriend/wife.
> >
> > > Last of all, who cares whether or not Usenet is a plain-text forum?
Use
> > > Microsoft Outlook Express instead. It handles HTML in Mail and
> Newsgroups
> > > rather nicely.
> >
> > There is a tendency to include files when using HTML, and that prevents
> many
> > people from reading it, since many providers filter out binaries in
> > non-binary groups.
