# Thanks to the non-US'ers for your patience

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-to-the-non-users-for-your-patience/533493>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 23, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-to-the-non-users-for-your-patience/533493 "2010-03-23T16:17:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-to-the-non-users-for-your-patience/533493/101 "2010-03-25T15:25:05Z")

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I’d still like **Randy** to explain more about the US “depression” he mentions in passing in post #93, particularly in light of how government deregulation of banking and financial services seems to have caused it.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-to-the-non-users-for-your-patience/533493/102 "2010-03-25T15:37:45Z")

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> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> Now you can look forward to some future time when **Rand Rover** posts the same crap again, and then tells you that he already refuted your points.

Poor kid thinks “deny” and “refute” are synonyms. A common problem among his faction, admittedly.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-to-the-non-users-for-your-patience/533493/103 "2010-03-25T18:37:23Z")

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> [@RickJay](#):
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> \<snip\>Glenn Beck’s Talking Points For People Afraid To Travel Abroad?

On at 2:00 every afternoon on Fox!

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> I mean, have you BEEN to Canada? It’s remarkably wealthy for a place that’s allegedly stagnated all these decades.

Canada: Making Stagnation Work for 142 Years!

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**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-to-the-non-users-for-your-patience/533493/104 "2010-03-25T20:08:19Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> And yet, oddly, you seem reluctant to devastate our argument with examples. How very kind of you!
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> Of course there are such factors. The point was that its a very good bet that such factors vary from culture to culture and nation to nation. And if something works pretty much the same regardless of those factors (which vary), then its a very good bet that that “something” (in this instance, UHC) is the dominant and most effective factor.
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> Any other factor to explain the results would have to be equally prevalent, near universal, now wouldn’t it? That is to say, it would have to be the same in Germany as in Mexico, France as in Australia, and so one and so forth.

How about if it were just that the U.S. eats a lot of junk and doesn’t exercise? The common denominator for the other countries would then be they eat healthier and get more exercise. No?

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-to-the-non-users-for-your-patience/533493/105 "2010-03-25T20:22:18Z")

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Don’t expect any cites for that, either, **El.**

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