"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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>> "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.
