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	Conservative politicians use Western Europe as a cautionary tale against social programs

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/413e87d1-ed3d-49e4-9228-3859aba1c8d4/8D48FE3E-0468-4538-BE8E-6030F76D2A2C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theseminal.com/2009/02/06/another-mastercard-commercial-id-like-to-see/" href="http://www.theseminal.com/2009/02/06/another-mastercard-commercial-id-like-to-see/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theseminal.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theseminal.com/2009/02/06/another-mastercard-commercial-id-like-to-see/"><P>Out of the 13 countries in Western Europe (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Swtizerland, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and Great Britian), the number that have a lower <A href="http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/infant-mortality-rates-by-country-19-3/versions/1">infant mortality rate</A> than the United States :    <STRONG>13</STRONG></p> <P>That have a higher <A href="http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/life-expectancy-at-birth/versions/1">life expectancy </A>than the US (for both men and women):     <STRONG>13</STRONG></p> <P>That have a lower <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita">murder rate</A>:    <STRONG>13</STRONG></p> <P>That have a lower <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_pop_bel_pov_lin-economy-population-below-poverty-line">poverty rate</A>:      <STRONG>11  </STRONG></p> <P>Hearing conservative politicians use Western Europe as a cautionary tale against developing social programs:      <STRONG>Priceless </STRONG></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8D48FE3E-0468-4538-BE8E-6030F76D2A2C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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