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I received this in an email from a web­site vis­i­tor and read­er.

It is inter­est­ing and I like his­to­ry so thought I would share it with every­one.

Inter­est­ing sta­tis­tics

 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 Oba­ma wants to change our sys­tem to like those in Eng­land and Cana­da.

 
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…areal-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%
G. H. Bush.….….…. 51%
Clin­ton  .….….…..39%
G. W. Bush.….….….55%

And the win­ner is:

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? 
They know what’s best for GM, Chrysler, Wall Street, and you and me?

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.” They should have been in an employ­ment line.

 
Pass this on…  we’ll NEVER see these facts in the main stream media.

 
“One of the penal­ties of not par­tic­i­pat­ing in pol­i­tics is that you will be gov­erned by your infe­ri­ors.” Pla­to