Why do the developed left-leaning countries (Europe) usually have a much lower income than Americans?
Obviously because their taxes are higher which allows them to get all kinds of free stuff, but even when taken into account isn't it still far less? In general, if you were a nurse who made 73,000 per year in the US (so, lets say this was your job https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=61946&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1) You would have a pretty dang nice condo or apartment, car, could pay for college, get healthcare through your employer, etc. But what if you had the same job in France, UK, Sweden, Germany, etc? It seems like life would just be better here...am I wrong? Average income per person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita
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They have a lower cost of living since the government provides so much, so they don't need to make so much to still live comfortably.
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The answer is not at all clear from what you present. I doubt there is a great deal of difference.
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I think it is a flaw in the European system that discriminates against liberals. Everyone knows that liberals are severely mentally retarded. In Europe, it is legal to discriminate against the retarded. As such, liberals suffer from lower wages and higher unemployment.
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What is their cost of living and currency exchange rates involved in your calculations? If they are paying taxes, where is the free stuff? Do us Americans have a higher quality of life to go with our higher pay checks, though I do not make 73 thousand.
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Because progressive ideas fail every time...
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Wrong - first of all, the Scandinavian countries have the world's highest standard of living, and we in Britain have free -and very good- healthcare for all, irrespective of job or income. So I challenge your sources, for a start. Pay for college? Scots and Irish students pay no fees, though English students and their families are robbed thanks to a government of RIGHT wing bastards. And what about your unemployed? I tell you, I'd rather be out of work in Stockholm than in Detroit. Now awa' to your trailer park - higher standards of living, indeed! PS - Bunny - think about what you've just said. Logically. It's one of the funniest things I've read in years. PPS - how childish to send rude notes to responders who disagree with the assumptions behind a question, and challenge sources which, you'll be pleased to hear, include the CIA 'factbook', widely known as the CIA joke book. How naive, too, to believe that quality of life is a function of income alone - but, then, I suppose it's all we can expect of an American....
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Did cost cutting play a roll in French heat wave deaths
Did cost cutting play a roll in French heat wave deaths?
France lost nearly 20,000 people in two heat waves. one in 1983 and nearly 15000 in 2003. http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862003001000020 >>>In addition, the response was "strongly aggravated" by the seasonal reduction of doctors, nurses and in-service hospital beds.<<< First I find it interesting that there is a seasonal change in medical service. But more importantly 13 days after the start of the heat wave is when the government decided to call back doctors and staff from their vacations and open up closed facilities. You're a medical professional on vacation at the beach. You're aware of nearly two weeks of news reporting a large number of deaths. Yet you don't return to work. I am trying to think of a reason why this might be so. Is this a result of the government trying to cut costs by partially shutting down services. Individuals on vacation would not see the need to rush back as they understood that the wards they worked in would be closed and the support staff also on vacation.
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Oh-ho-ho! I get it! Nice joke, mate :D
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France lost nearly 20,000 people in two heat waves. one in 1983 and nearly 15000 in 2003. http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862003001000020 >>>In addition, the response was "strongly aggravated" by the seasonal reduction of doctors, nurses and in-service hospital beds.<<< First I find it interesting that there is a seasonal change in medical service. But more importantly 13 days after the start of the heat wave is when the government decided to call back doctors and staff from their vacations and open up closed facilities. You're a medical professional on vacation at the beach. You're aware of nearly two weeks of news reporting a large number of deaths. Yet you don't return to work. I am trying to think of a reason why this might be so. Is this a result of the government trying to cut costs by partially shutting down services. Individuals on vacation would not see the need to rush back as they understood that the wards they worked in would be closed and the support staff also on vacation.
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Oh-ho-ho! I get it! Nice joke, mate :D
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
I need help for a title
I need help for a title?
I wrote a memoir and i need help for a title. this is just a rough draft I don't have a copy of the final for ya but it's good eough. but please skim and give me ideas. So far I have 'Summer of Friendship' “Molly!†Carolyn, Haley, and Ali raced towards me as I leaped of the Camp Echo bus. For the next two weeks we would all be together again. We hadn’t seen each other since the summer before. They fired questions at me and I eagerly answered them. It wasn’t until ten minuets passed that I noticed a boy standing a few feet from us a little awkwardly. He was shorter than me by a few inches and had blonde hair and blue eyes. “Hey,†I said a little embarrassed to the girls, “Who’s that?†The girls (except Carolyn) giggled. They went on to explain that he was Carolyn’s boyfriend. I raised my eyebrows at Carolyn. She laughed and opened her mouth to retort. Just then a counselor blew a whistle. We skipped over from the bus spots past our luggage the dining hall, the nurses cabin, the director cabin, and on to the tennis courts. I left my pink bag that was on the bus with me with my cousin Mitchell. “Watch this†I mouthed while I left him to talk with his friends. The counselor was welcoming us to Michigan explaining how they were grateful we made they long trip from Chicago where most of the campers lived. Except for a girl named Natalie, her brother (a counselor), two boys from France, a girl and her brother from Mexico, and me, everyone lived on the Northshore. (It’s in Chicago). After the long soeech they started reading of the list of girls names and the cabin they’d be sharing with 11 other girls. We eagerly listened for our names. “In Wally Ford: Carolyn Briggs, Ali Marks, Haley Moffat, Molly Fischl†The list went on saying eight other girls names but we were to busy screaming our heads of to notice. “Bye Conor,†said Carolyn smiling timidly to the blonde boy. “See ya guys†he said smiling back, “Oh and nice to meet ya,†he said to me, “Molly right?†“That’s me!†After our counselors in our cabin introduced themselves and we played a name game, the four of us had already forgotten which cabin we were in. “Wally Ford,†our counselors Becky, Claire, and Courtney exclaimed a little irritated since we had asked five minutes a go. Wally Ford was on the west side of camp. The boy’s side. Meaning we would be around boys all summer long. Somehow, we thought we would survive while other girls in our cabin eeked. They were troubled about having to change and take showers. Of course they were new to camp and didn’t understand that you showered in the girls bathroom, not the guys and we changed, slept, and lived, in our own cabin with tons of privacy. They told us to go get our luggage, choose our bunks and do a little unpacking before the swimming and horse riding tests. There were four levels for the swim test you could do. 1) Is red. You have to take swim lessons, can only swim in the red area (the shallowest end of the lake), and can’t water-ski, sail, ect. 2) is white. You have to take swim lessons, can only swim in the red area and white area (the middle part of the lake), and can only boating and canoeing. No sailing or waterskiing. 3) Is blue circle. You have to take swim lessons, you can swim in red, white, and blue area (the deepest part of the lake), you can sail, water-ski, everything. The last one is blue. You can do everything and you don’t need to take swim lessons. That’s what everyone aimed for. After choosing bunks, and taking the swim test (everyone in our cabin got blue or blue circle except for one girl who got red) we were taught camp rules and showed the newbies around the camp. I could already tell this would be a great summer. I couldn’t wait for the next day when it would be a standard day of camp. Wow, it went by fast. Two weeks later it was closing campfire. We bawled as we sang camp songs and told stories with the 300-kid camp. We were going to miss each other soo much. Carolyn had gotten homesick and left in the first week of camp. Right before; she and Conor had broken up. So for the rest of the day that Carolyn had left Ali, Haley, Conor, John (a boy who we had become inseparable with), and I were hugging and crying. Mostly me because I wouldn’t see her in a long time and they were her neighbors and in her classes. Seeing as she wasn’t going back to camp next summer I couldn’t help it but cry. As the campfire died out the counselors told us to say our goodbyes, we were leaving the next morning. The friendship I had found this summer would stick with me forever. Conor, a boy who I thought only cared about football, became my best friend. John, who I assumed only cared about himself, is someone I text daily. Ali, Haley and Carolyn were already my best friends but I had learned to love them even more. I hugged each one of them for a long time. Then I went over to hug Randy, Tim, Quinton, Emily, Paige, Hannah, Sammy, Phoebe and many more. This summer was no do I know it's not fluent but i really need title help so ignore that. omg it didn't fit the while story in. the rest is just goodbyes and stuff I keep on adding stuff sorry but how bout like memories that echo since the camps name is camp echo. summer of friendship doesn't seem to capture how i felt. ugh this is hard!!!
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Yah i like the summer of friendship that works not be mean or ask for a lot but could choose mine for best answer please
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Your title is great. It is simple and hints at a theme. Come up with several more and choose the one you like best.
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Its mostly about swiming so you should should call it "Sw!m D!m" or "@b0v3 th3 $3@ 13v31{above the sea level}.Hope this helps.TTFN.=)
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your title is good. you should keep that title. :)
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Summer of Friendship is great, why you asked for a different one is beyond me.
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omg yeah!!! i love that name, its simple, yet meaningfuL!!!! its awesome! ur like my bff,,, can write awesome-ly and should get books published ( and i still suck at it!) totallly!!! loving itt! have fuuunnn,,, cant wait til its published! ~k
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Your "Summer of Friendship" sounds like a really good one. Or maybe "A Summer in Paradise" I don't know...
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I wrote a memoir and i need help for a title. this is just a rough draft I don't have a copy of the final for ya but it's good eough. but please skim and give me ideas. So far I have 'Summer of Friendship' “Molly!†Carolyn, Haley, and Ali raced towards me as I leaped of the Camp Echo bus. For the next two weeks we would all be together again. We hadn’t seen each other since the summer before. They fired questions at me and I eagerly answered them. It wasn’t until ten minuets passed that I noticed a boy standing a few feet from us a little awkwardly. He was shorter than me by a few inches and had blonde hair and blue eyes. “Hey,†I said a little embarrassed to the girls, “Who’s that?†The girls (except Carolyn) giggled. They went on to explain that he was Carolyn’s boyfriend. I raised my eyebrows at Carolyn. She laughed and opened her mouth to retort. Just then a counselor blew a whistle. We skipped over from the bus spots past our luggage the dining hall, the nurses cabin, the director cabin, and on to the tennis courts. I left my pink bag that was on the bus with me with my cousin Mitchell. “Watch this†I mouthed while I left him to talk with his friends. The counselor was welcoming us to Michigan explaining how they were grateful we made they long trip from Chicago where most of the campers lived. Except for a girl named Natalie, her brother (a counselor), two boys from France, a girl and her brother from Mexico, and me, everyone lived on the Northshore. (It’s in Chicago). After the long soeech they started reading of the list of girls names and the cabin they’d be sharing with 11 other girls. We eagerly listened for our names. “In Wally Ford: Carolyn Briggs, Ali Marks, Haley Moffat, Molly Fischl†The list went on saying eight other girls names but we were to busy screaming our heads of to notice. “Bye Conor,†said Carolyn smiling timidly to the blonde boy. “See ya guys†he said smiling back, “Oh and nice to meet ya,†he said to me, “Molly right?†“That’s me!†After our counselors in our cabin introduced themselves and we played a name game, the four of us had already forgotten which cabin we were in. “Wally Ford,†our counselors Becky, Claire, and Courtney exclaimed a little irritated since we had asked five minutes a go. Wally Ford was on the west side of camp. The boy’s side. Meaning we would be around boys all summer long. Somehow, we thought we would survive while other girls in our cabin eeked. They were troubled about having to change and take showers. Of course they were new to camp and didn’t understand that you showered in the girls bathroom, not the guys and we changed, slept, and lived, in our own cabin with tons of privacy. They told us to go get our luggage, choose our bunks and do a little unpacking before the swimming and horse riding tests. There were four levels for the swim test you could do. 1) Is red. You have to take swim lessons, can only swim in the red area (the shallowest end of the lake), and can’t water-ski, sail, ect. 2) is white. You have to take swim lessons, can only swim in the red area and white area (the middle part of the lake), and can only boating and canoeing. No sailing or waterskiing. 3) Is blue circle. You have to take swim lessons, you can swim in red, white, and blue area (the deepest part of the lake), you can sail, water-ski, everything. The last one is blue. You can do everything and you don’t need to take swim lessons. That’s what everyone aimed for. After choosing bunks, and taking the swim test (everyone in our cabin got blue or blue circle except for one girl who got red) we were taught camp rules and showed the newbies around the camp. I could already tell this would be a great summer. I couldn’t wait for the next day when it would be a standard day of camp. Wow, it went by fast. Two weeks later it was closing campfire. We bawled as we sang camp songs and told stories with the 300-kid camp. We were going to miss each other soo much. Carolyn had gotten homesick and left in the first week of camp. Right before; she and Conor had broken up. So for the rest of the day that Carolyn had left Ali, Haley, Conor, John (a boy who we had become inseparable with), and I were hugging and crying. Mostly me because I wouldn’t see her in a long time and they were her neighbors and in her classes. Seeing as she wasn’t going back to camp next summer I couldn’t help it but cry. As the campfire died out the counselors told us to say our goodbyes, we were leaving the next morning. The friendship I had found this summer would stick with me forever. Conor, a boy who I thought only cared about football, became my best friend. John, who I assumed only cared about himself, is someone I text daily. Ali, Haley and Carolyn were already my best friends but I had learned to love them even more. I hugged each one of them for a long time. Then I went over to hug Randy, Tim, Quinton, Emily, Paige, Hannah, Sammy, Phoebe and many more. This summer was no do I know it's not fluent but i really need title help so ignore that. omg it didn't fit the while story in. the rest is just goodbyes and stuff I keep on adding stuff sorry but how bout like memories that echo since the camps name is camp echo. summer of friendship doesn't seem to capture how i felt. ugh this is hard!!!
Homework Help - 7 Answers
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Yah i like the summer of friendship that works not be mean or ask for a lot but could choose mine for best answer please
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Your title is great. It is simple and hints at a theme. Come up with several more and choose the one you like best.
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Its mostly about swiming so you should should call it "Sw!m D!m" or "@b0v3 th3 $3@ 13v31{above the sea level}.Hope this helps.TTFN.=)
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your title is good. you should keep that title. :)
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Summer of Friendship is great, why you asked for a different one is beyond me.
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omg yeah!!! i love that name, its simple, yet meaningfuL!!!! its awesome! ur like my bff,,, can write awesome-ly and should get books published ( and i still suck at it!) totallly!!! loving itt! have fuuunnn,,, cant wait til its published! ~k
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Your "Summer of Friendship" sounds like a really good one. Or maybe "A Summer in Paradise" I don't know...
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Do you think a Muslim woman can become a nurse in the U.S
Do you think a Muslim woman can become a nurse in the U.S?
I want to become a nurse and I was wondering if your allowed to wear a headscarf if your a nurse in America..I know that your not allowed to in France because it's illegal, but are you allowed to wear a Muslim headscarf that just covers ur hair in American hospitals? thanks :)
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Yes I don't see why that would be a problem.
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You can wear your hijab anywhere in the US. In fact, there are laws here that protect your right to do so.
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I think it would be a violation of your religious freedom rights to be told that you can't.
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I want to become a nurse and I was wondering if your allowed to wear a headscarf if your a nurse in America..I know that your not allowed to in France because it's illegal, but are you allowed to wear a Muslim headscarf that just covers ur hair in American hospitals? thanks :)
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Yes I don't see why that would be a problem.
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You can wear your hijab anywhere in the US. In fact, there are laws here that protect your right to do so.
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I think it would be a violation of your religious freedom rights to be told that you can't.
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