> WD> than overthere. Let's say a pair of Levis ... pay here 45Euro or so
> WD> ... times 1.22 is $54.90. A loaf of bread costs E1.70 here, so you
> WD> pay $2.07 etc...
 
> I can get a loaf of bread for $0.79!
 
You mean that squishy spongy stuff that sticks to your gums? I'm talking
about oven-fresh crumby crusty bread without additives.
 
> But our gas is under $2.00 per gallon...
 
Been to California lately? That was very close last month. Besides that,
the gas-price rise has nowhere been as steep as in the US the last couple
of years. Didn't it about tripple?
 
> IOW, it's not easy to make a 1:1 comparison.
 
Tattaaaa ... ;-)
 
> Never mind that
> over 40 million people in this country do not have health insurance.
 
Which I don't understand ... everybody here has health-insurance. Bob Bashe
will describe it as a corrupted social welfare system but it doesn't
detract from the fact that everybody is accepted in any hospital for any
intervention which is medically, and sometimes even socially, necessary.
 
It's obvious that a sex-change operation is a different thing.
 
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