🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <199612311607...@nym.alias.net>, an...@non-signed.org (Anonymous) writes:
> In article <5ab56d$f...@gyda.ifi.uio.no>, chri...@ifi.uio.no
> (Christopher Henrik Lund) wrote:
> > Norway has had a female prime minister for over a decade, and is now one of
> > the world's richest nations. We don't even have a foreign dept. Half of our
> > politicians are women, and I don't think there are very many voters here who
> > consider genitals to be of political importance.
> Anonymous responds:
> 
> Your reply to my posting proves nothing.

Sez you. If you choose to ignore everything that does not fit into your narrow
perception of reality, well, that's your problem.

> First, exceptions to general rules do not disprove general rules.
> At best, you are citing an exception.

Norway is an exception in that women have more or less the same rights and
opportunities as do men.

> Secondly, the social dynamics of a female in politics are very
> different from a female who is on the job and protected by
> equal employment opportunity laws.

We no longer have such laws in Norway. At least not in politics. The women are
there because they are good at what they do.

> Thirdly, you say Norway is a wealthy country.  The same is still
> being said about the U.S., but the statistics belie this claim.
> The United States, while it does enjoy a standard of living that
> lags the statistics, is one of the world's poorest countries, if
> not THE poorest country.

Read my posting again. No foreign debt (ok, I misspelled it the first time).
Norway is one of the few nations in the world that's in the black. The US
can't make the same claim. As for the US being wealthy, that's true, provided
you look only it it's resources. Look at the trade balance, the standard of
living, the number of poor, the national debt, and so on, and you'll get a
somewhat different picture. Statistics lie only when they're incomplete.



"Because I didn't want too, satisfied?"
-"Ourobouros"

	C. Lund, Oslo	http://www.ifi.uio.no/~christop/shame.html