Tully.,..is there anything that can happen that would make you suspect that there isn't enough difference between the stances of the democratic candidate for president, vs. the republican, to make any significant difference in what happens? Will the US spend less on military and intelligence operations, will one candidate declare that an enemy of Israel, may not, in all instances, be an enemy of the US, as well. Will there be any more equitable movement in the direction of the GINI coefficient in the US under the leadership of one of these two candidates? Will there be 193o's style anti-trust investigations under either administration, how about investigations like TNEC or like Sen. Gerald Nye's investigations of industrialist and of the elite in the US?
I've got extra pitchforks and molotov cocktails.....no rush....let me know when you are ready to pick them up and march into the street.....
Mexico
Quote:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/mx.html
Unemployment rate:
Definition Field Listing Rank Order
3.7% plus underemployment of perhaps 25% (2007 est.)
Population below poverty line:
Definition Field Listing
13.8% using food-based definition of poverty; asset based poverty amounted to more than 40% (2006)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 1.2%
highest 10%: 37% (2006)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
Definition Field Listing
50.9 (2005)
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United States:
Quote:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...s/us.html#Econ
Unemployment rate:
Definition Field Listing Rank Order
4.6% (2007 est.)
Population below poverty line:
Definition Field Listing
12% (2004 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 30% (2007 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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45 (2007)
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France:
Quote:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...s/fr.html#Econ
Unemployment rate:
Definition Field Listing Rank Order
8.3% (2007 est.)
Population below poverty line:
Definition Field Listing
6.2% (2004)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
Definition Field Listing
lowest 10%: 3%
highest 10%: 24.8% (2004)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
Definition Field Listing
28 (2005)
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