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Steven Shelikoff
 
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Default ( OT ) Interesting numbers (if true)



Doug Kanter wrote:
"Steven Shelikoff" wrote in message
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Jim wrote:

For reasons I don't understand I am getting sample copies of a magazine
called "UTNE", sort of a combo new age, liberal, holistic thing.

Anyhow page 15 has a small insert titled "Land of the free?"

Incarceration rates in George W Bush's America and Stalin's USSR

U.S.S.R (1950) 1423 per 100,000

U.S.A (2000) 2298 per 100,000


Statistics for USA (2000) would be for William J Clinton's America, not
George W Bush's.



If the numbers were broken down by age, you might actually have a valid
point. Or not. Without that information, you can't pin this on any
particular president.


The valid point is that Incarceration rates for 2000 can not be George W
Bush's rates, as the magazine claimed, since he didn't take office until
2001. If the magazine called "UTNE" can't even that that point of well
based fact correct, I wouldn't trust them for much else.

Just goes to show how easy it is to brainwash liberal Democrats, eh?

Steve