--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seekliberation" <seekliberat...@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seekliberation" <seekliberation@>
> > wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > You mean to tell me, that all of a sudden health issues
> > > are a serious concern? At this day in age, no matter
> > > how bad our health care system is, it's still better
> > > than anytime in the history of the world(including 3rd
> > > world countries). So what the hell is everybody so
> > > stressed about?
> >
> > Maybe that it *costs* us twice as much per capita as it
> > does in any other country, for no better standard of
> > care (and in some cases worse)?
>
> I'm aware that some people aren't getting health care, or on the other hand
> are getting sub-standard care at the same price, or are just plain paying too
> damn much. But my case is, what did they do 500 years ago,or 1000 years ago,
> or how about the time frame that Krishna or Rama were on the Earth? Was it
> really much better back then? Does this generation really have it so much
> worse than any generation in world history that we need to be stressed about
> it? I think the only true difference between the world now, and in the past,
> is that we're slowly but surely overpopulating the Earth. The resources
> needed are no longer going to be available if the birth rate continues to
> incline at the rate it already is.
>
> All i'm getting at is that life, in general, isn't getting any harder than it
> ever has been since our species has existed.
>
> seekliberation
>
Some countries birth rate isn't up to even a maintenance level- if it keeps
up, they will go out of business.