"To the kindly influence of Christianity, we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.
In proportion, as the genuine effects of Christianity and diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines in the same proportion will the people of the nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom and approximate the miseries of complete despotism." - Jedidiah Morse
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There are actually two messages here. The 1st is very interesting, but the 2nd is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.
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%
And now for the last statistic: National Health Insurance?
U.S. ........NO
England...YES
Canada....YES
Check this last set of statistics!!
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%
F. 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%
Obama.............................. 8%
This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!
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?
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 when it's the same for 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."
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
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