Pål,
I believe your statistics are faulty 1.) there are
no where near that number of homeless. 2.) While
poverty is high as a percentage of population, the
level of income required to be considered 'poor' would
be considered middle class almost anywhere in Europe,
(and we don't count government transfer payments in
that income, so for example if you have a yearly
income of say $1000 dollars a year in cash from some
kind of job and you receive $20,000 from various
government programs in services, what I would call
dedicated cash, like food stamps, and actual cash for
spending your yearly income is what? Answer $1000.00.)
Finally if you qualify for this you are not allowed
to have any savings you are REQUIRED to consume! 3.)
Prison population is inflated by jailing drug users,
who in any other country would be given at most a slap
on the wrist, well except for Singapore where they'd
be beheaded).
--- Pål_Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob Wroe:
>
> > I've got to agree with Peter. I've looked at
> demographics in the USA professionally, and the USA
> is generally and specifically very rich.
>
>
>
> This is not correct when compared with other western
> societies. 1 million in prison 3-5 million homeless
> is just a symptomatic tip of the iceberg. There are
> a large middle class and many stinkin rich but no
> western countries have anything remotely the
> percentages of poor as the US. Hence, the number of
> consumer divided by population is significantly
> smaller in the US than countries its natural to
> compare with. The US makes up for this by size.
> Whats more, Pentax market share is much lower in the
> US compared to many other markets. Also, theres a
> much tougher price competition in the US than most
> other places reducing profit. Hence, I believe the
> US market isn't that important to Pentax.
>
>
> Pål
>
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