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To: Zoltan! who wrote (8505)	3/14/2001 5:55:13 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 82486

Actually, you were wrong. The discussion was on whether the population of the countries in question is in decline. X cited figures showing that it is not. The figures you cited were projections of what is expected to happen, quite irrelevant to a discussion of what is actually happening now. Sort of like trying to resolve a discussion of a company's current revenues by pulling out a projection of revenues 10 years down the pipe. The number doesn't mean much. So you were wrong, but I won't bother to be sympathetic; I'm sure it's a feeling you've gotten used to. The other question, of course, is why anybody would deduce that a declining population, in the hypothetical event that there was one, would somehow be indicative of a lower quality of life. The whole argument over whether the Scandinavian social and economic model is "better" or "worse" than the American smacks of playground silliness. They have a viable model that works for them, we have a viable model that works for us. Both models could use some tuning, and are in fact being continuously tuned. Each side could learn a few things from the other. Why the need to put the other guy down, and pretend that our way is best for everyone?

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