RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] speaking of apocalyptic horsemen...

["Matthew Ross" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> I have to hope they had some way of standardizing across 
> countries using
> some sort of cost of living index based on prices of things 
> like food and
> apartments.

Unfortunately, the last statistic for poor Americans was about 20%, so no, this isn't adjusted for cost of living, unless pokemon is as vital to an american child as food is to a Chinese child.

> > > Are there really more poor children in Canada than in Hungary?  Is
> > > this merely because poor Hungarians use birth control?  What could
> > > explain this strange observation?
> >
> > It's percentages, there are more people working in an 
> average Hungarian
> > restraunt than live in Canada ;-)
> 
> In case it wasn't clear, I did mean percentage-wise.

I know, and seriously speaking, its what Canada declares its poverty rate. America set its poverty level relatively high, and Canada followed suit. I just like disparaging Canada, I have friends from there who always feel the need to correct my delusion that nobody lives in Canada. Force of habbit.

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