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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 779524" data-attributes="member: 1246">Check the last set of statistics!! A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very  interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations  International Health Organization. Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years  after diagnosis:   U.S.              65%   England        46%   Canada         42% Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received  treatment within six months:   U.S.              93%   England        15%   Canada         43% Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it  within six months:   U.S.              90%   England        15%   Canada         43% Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within  one month:   U.S.              77%   England        40%   Canada         43% Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:   U.S.              71   England        14   Canada         18 Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in  "excellent health":   U.S.              12%   England        2%   Canada         6% I don't know about you, but I don't want "Universal Healthcare"  comparable to England or Canada . Moreover, it was Sen. Harry Reid who said, "Elderly Americans  must learn to accept the inconveniences of old age." SHIP HIM TO CANADA OR ENGLAND ! He is "elderly" himself but be sure to remember his health  insurance is different from yours as Congress has their own high- end coverage!  He will never have to learn to accept  "inconveniences"!!! AND THE WINNER IS VERY INTERESTING! The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in  the private business sector prior to their appointment to the  cabinet.  You know what the private business sector is... a real  life business, not a government job.  Here are the percentages. T. Roosevelt........  38% Taft.....................40%   Wilson .................52% Harding..................49% Coolidge..............  48% Hoover................. 42% friend. Roosevelt.........  50% Truman..................50% Eisenhower............ 57% Kennedy..............  30% Johnson.................47% Nixon....................  53% Ford.................... 42% Carter..................  32% Reagan...................56% GH Bush................. 51%   Clinton   ................. 39% GW Bush................ 55% And the winner of the Chicken Dinner is: Obama................ 8%  !!! Yep!  That's right!  Only Eight Percent!!!.. the least by far of  the last 19 presidents!!  And these people are trying to tell our  big corporations how to run their business?  They know what's  best for GM...Chrysler... Wall Street... and you and me? How can the president of a major nation and society...the one  with the most successful economic system in world history...  stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one?..  or about jobs when he has never really had one??!  And neither  has 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers!  They've spent  most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit  jobs....or as "community organizers" when they should have been  in an employment line. Do you, after looking at these percentages, agree that real life experiences in business, having employees, owning your home, writing your own checks and balancing your check book, putting food on the table, is more important than book learning.   I think they are educated beyond their intelligence.   JB Just in case you have not seen these interesting statistics: May want to pass this on, we will NEVER see it in the main street media </blockquote>

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