For some reason the hits have gone through the roof on this old post of mine from March. Web site called www.reddit.com linked it yesterday and BOOM! Hits go through the roof.
Anyway, it shows the world's worst cases of genocide by an interesting chart (and we know my affinity for charts). But I didn't want to repost it with a different date otherwise the links wouldn't work, so click on it. It shows how communists are effectively the world's best killer and that's DURING PEACE TIME!
I've noticed that your Alexa rating's been going nuts lately -
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=captaincapitalism.blogspot.com
I'll be very jealous the day you overtake me!
Captain, I need your help! This may be a little irrelevant, and I understand that you may not have the time to be aiding my petty endeavors, but I'm on a mission to deter certain socialistic influences. If you recall, I'm the right-wing high school graduate who battled daily with my leftist economics teacher. There is an organization that I'm fighting that encourages increased government spending to fight foreign poverty and destitution. I'm in search of some charts that illustrate either the virtues of private investing to advance medical research, or evidence of the superiority of private medical care, and its availability, over government medical programs.
ReplyDeleteAnything would be greatly appreciated. If you're not interested, I appologize for the inconvenience. Thanks anyway.
Hey Anon,
ReplyDeleteWell truthfully the data shows that neither a public sector health care system or a private sector health care system is better than one or the other.
Many countries with national health care have just as good health as we here in the US. Additionally, they spend half what we do on health care as a percent of our GDP.
Now, one can make the arugment that the US government intervenes so much in the private part of our health care system that it effectively renders it inefficient to the point of natioanlized health care.
But about the only evidence I've seen as to why a private health care system is superior to a public health care system is because of the US' pharmaceutical industry.
We (the US) develop and create, literally, ALL the new drugs that the rest of the world uses. There's often been the argument that European governments should reimburse Pfizer, Merck< J&J for the research they did.
All this being said, we already have a nationalized health care system in the US. We spend just as much as anybody else on health care throught the government, we just have a veyr inefficient private health care system. Here's a chart from the OECD that will help;
http://oberon.sourceoecd.org/vl=2011558/cl=15/nw=1/rpsv/factbook/10-01-04-g01.htm
I can't interpret have those stats Frank. Lord knows it's probably some crazy Aussie Bastardized version of english they're using on that web site
ReplyDeleteThat chart is an immense help. Thank you, again, for the time. Your site always serves as an invaluable resource for me.
ReplyDeleteNah it's all internet marketing mumbo jumbo... just look at your alexa rank - the lower the number, the higher you're ranked (for example, yahoo = #1, msn = #2, google = #3, franksemails.com = 149,020 and captaincapitalism.blogspot.com = 227,914). Also, reach per million means how many people per million internet users are hitting your site (right now you pwn 20/1,000,000 internet users) and page views per user is, you guessed it, how many pages on average each user is reading.
ReplyDeleteOf course it's not a very accurate representation, since only people with an alexa toolbar (or this awesome tool which also does Google's PageRank) will have an effect on the rank, but it's not bad.
So out of all the web sites out there I'm ranked 220,000th?
ReplyDeleteThat's not too bad given theres a couple billion pages I'd imagine?
yeah something like that...
ReplyDeleteYour Google PageRank's pretty good at 5/10 - means a lot of pages link to you...
btw, what's this nonsense about "Aussie bastardized version of English?" We're not the ones that spell words with bloody z's instead of s's... and mum with an 'o' ffs?!... and that thing where you drop the 'u'... well, that's not entirely true, the Australian Labor Party forgot the u in Labour... silly socialists...
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ReplyDeleteabsurd thought -
God of the Universe thinks
communism is SUPER
even though it never works
because we are not robots
absurd thought -
God of the Universe feels
communism is fair
fools can't or won't think it through
idiots just keep scheming
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