That is a lie, I fully acknowledged for a long time that the earth is likely warming, I do question, as many more are, the cause of that. The most likely reason is increased solar activity, same with the warming recorded on Mars and Jupiter.
It would be rather amazing for the sun to just all of the sudden start to warm itself up a few million degrees. I tried to look for evidence on google, but all I could find was right wing blogs.
Did it ever occur to you that taxes are much higher and purchasing power much lower ($13000 lower per person) in more left-wing France, so it makes it harder for regular people to afford A/C?
http://www.geographyiq.com/ranking/r...ity_dal l.htm
I promise you, no matter how much lower their purchasing power is, it isn't lower than mine in uber-right wing Mississippi. No one here goes without an airconditioner. If you have a wooden shack out in the delta without any windows, you can bet there's going to be an airconditioner attached to it.
Arguing that parisians do not have no airconditioning because of leftwing policies which hurt the economy is stupid, because no matter how left wing they are, they aren't poorer than Mississippi. Let's think about this here. Maybe it's a climate issue? Maybe, just maybe Dano, for once in the history of man, liberals aren't the cause?
And Anyway, if we had a healthcare system like France's, we'd have even more purchasing power to brag about, because we wouldn't be spending twice as much on healthcare.
Fuck you, you stupid idiot, this is the most widely ackowledged fact on the planet, even fucking Michael Moore admitted wait times are higher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialized_healthcare
I thougth God was the most widely acknowledged fact on the planet? *Sigh* I'm getting old...
From the article:
"In France, the supply of doctors is so limited that during an August 2003 heat wave -- when many doctors were on vacation and hospitals were stretched beyond capacity -- 15,000 elderly citizens died."
The article connects two truths...that the hospitals were stretched in the heat wave and that an extra 15,000 elderly people died during this period. But these two truths are only connected to the heat wave, not to each other.
And that's the only mention of France in the article.
And in case you hadn't noticed, Sarkozy was elected in France with a mandate to control government spending and growth because people do not like life there with a large government (including healthcare) and huge amount of spending.
France puts too many restrictions on the market. Their welfare system isn't the worlds biggest or smallest. It's in line with most other welfare systems throughout most civilized nations in the world, including Ireland, which has a PPP per capita higher than America. Ireland, in contrast, has fewer business restrictions and regulations than America or France. Those they do have are designed to help the nation, instead of the usual American regulation, which is designed to help with pork back home or please some lobbying firm.
And if people are pissed about healthcare in France, we sure as hell should be in America, because we spend just as much public as them in healthcare, and then we spend an even larger portion privately. Single-payer systems have been proven to be more cost-effective than private and especially hybrid private ones. The healthcare system isn't something that can be put on the market. It's a completely inflexible good. Everyone is going to need it at sometime in their life.
Sure, we're "Subsidizing sick people with healthy peoples money". And if that's how you think, that the sick should be additionally punished for their sensless and random misfortune, then clearly you're screwed up.
