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To: Ilaine who wrote (204168)	9/23/2006 10:09:09 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Respond to of 281500

You might be surprised at the racial mix in Canada. The Immigration department has been taking mostly refugees for years, Toronto is the most racially mixed city in the world or so they claim. and we have a lot of jamaicans, and because of the farm workers hordes of brown babies. We have classes filled with white single moms and brown babies. There is a lady who does nothing but arrange dates for white girls and black men.... There are not that many Black women here, so that is not necessarily a racist comment it is just how it is. Some of the Black women are rather rude about the situation. the things they say about those young ladies

To: Ilaine who wrote (204168)	9/24/2006 5:33:00 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi CB. There was a recent study that compared the health of the average white male American to that of the average white Englishman. The Englishmen came out way ahead. Life expectancies of American whites are still below those of Canadians, Japanese and western Europeans. What is really alarming, is that these other countries achieve these results even though they spend on the average roughly half of what we spend on health care per capita, and even though their people are older on the average than we are. The US government already spends half of every health care dollar on medicare, medicaid, veterans. For that amount of money other countries are able to insure their entire population, not just the old and the extremely poor. We spend 15% of our GDP on health care. This is projected to increase to 20+%, when the boomers hit retirement in large numbers. This is a terrible competitive disadvantage versus other countries. It nullifies the other advantages the US has, such as labor flexibility, etc.