United States Drops 21 Spots in Global Life Expectancy Rankings

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  1. squidward

    squidward Well-Known Member

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    How many years will the average 70 year old live ?
     
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    Russ103 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Mine too. It’s a quote from Chris Plante.
     
  3. cd8ed

    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Statistically, on average they will live another 8.69 years.
     
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    He’s cool. I didn’t know if he coined it or borrowed it. I stream his show on WMAL a lot in the mornings. He has a good sense of humor.
     
  5. cd8ed

    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Red states also generally have the lowest education and worst healthcare.
    Receive more from the federal government
    Highest infant mortality
    Highest obesity

    And if you remove religious giving — wouldn’t want to deprive those hard work con artists pastors their planes and mansions — red states are average to less than average on charity giving.
     
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  7. Russ103

    Russ103 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He’s one of my favorites for sure. I download the podcast instead. Personally I can’t stand live radio due to commercials.

    I’ve met him at a gala I went to in 2017. Definitely a cool guy with a great sense of humor.
     
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    Cuts down on overcrowding.
     
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    If you remove religious giving from charity, the red states don't give as much to charity?

    Well ... if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
     
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    This sounds crazy but the commercials are educational for me. I’m from the Midwest so streaming radio from places around the country and world helps me keep the pulse of society at large. Local radio drives me nuts. Commercials, traffic and weather from far afield fascinates me.

    The podcast tip is great though. When I’m tired working late he’d be more soothing than doing obligatory opposition research with Pod Save America!
     
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    Statistically, you are wrong.
    The mean takes into account everyone who has died younger than 70, which are eliminated from a study population of those 70 years old or greater
     
  12. Fred C Dobbs

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    Americans may soon begin swimming to Cuba for better health care. Or they can commit a crime and go to a local prison instead.
     
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    oh my god, why on earth do third worlders flock to this evil death trap?! they live longer in their shitholes! apparently.
     
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    by the way....

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    Sounds much like a national socialist.



    21. The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.
     
  16. Fred C Dobbs

    Fred C Dobbs Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You seem very familiar with Nazi doctrine and policies.

    Does the State provide your health care and also recommend exercise?
     
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    We also have cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, Oakland. We also travel lots of miles by car. We also have a poor class that eats itself to death. But when you do seek healthcare and take care of yourself we have one of the best in the world to go to and can live a long happy life.
     
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    Yes I am rather familiar with nazis, their doctrine and their scumbaggery.

    As for healthcare, guess its a point of difference between a nazi and a white nationalist. Even the slimiest human who ever lived (or at least right up there in the top two or three) believed in universal healthcare albeit as a payoff for mindless dedication to the state above all.
     
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    Lets see Dirty Donald lay claim to this statistic!!
     
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    Fred C Dobbs Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You should develop other interests than Nazis. It will screw up your perception of the world.
     
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    Yeah, we're a fat bunch of partiers
     
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    Your grandmother is a heavy vehicle used to transport good that’s typically pulled by animals. That’s... interesting.

    Religious giving does not always go back into the community - it oftentimes builds bigger places of “worship” - mansions - planes. Donating to made up entities and conartists should not be classified as charity.
     
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