Why is US Life Expectancy Lower Than Canada's?

7/27/2009
Lithicsays...

Wow, that's really stupid. And it's not like it's a spur of the moment thing either. They got a letter, read it, sat down, thought out what they thought was an appropriate response, wrote it down, sent it up on the prompter, read it again, said it, taped it and aired it. And under no time in this entire process did anyone stop and go "hey, wait a second here, maybe we are just HUGE FREAKING MORONS WHO SHOULD FACT-CHECK EVERYTHING WE DO".

Seriously.

Skeevesays...

I am seriously starting to wonder if Bill O'Reilly is mentally handicapped... Life expectancy has nothing to do with having 10x more accidents, crimes etc.

rychansays...

Incredible. Who knew that high population or population density was so dangerous. No wonder people in Western Europe die so young. Oh, what's that? They have higher life expectancy and spend half as much of their GDP on health care?

ravermansays...

It's easy - the more people you have packed into a small space (like say Texas) the more likely you are to hit someone when you fire your guns in the air yelling "yeeeehaarrrr!!!"

Lithicsays...

>> ^Lithic:
Wow, that's really stupid. And it's not like it's a spur of the moment thing either. They got a letter, read it, sat down, thought out what they thought was an appropriate response, wrote it down, sent it up on the prompter, read it again, said it, taped it and aired it. And under no time in this entire process did anyone stop and go "hey, wait a second here, maybe we are just HUGE FREAKING MORONS WHO SHOULD FACT-CHECK EVERYTHING WE DO".
Seriously.


HAH, I just re-read my own comment while editing and realized how incredibly silly it was. When has BillO ever dealt in FACTS? *facepalm*

Doh.

HenningKOsays...

>> ^Skeeve:
Life expectancy has nothing to do with having 10x more accidents, crimes etc.


Well it certainly would, if it were 10x more per capita. Life expectancy is a per capita measure, so should your accident rate be.
I expected Billo would say something like, "Well we Americans have much more stressful lives, we fight wars for example," but what he actually said is about as retarded as saying "Nuh uh! When you add up the age of every person in the US vs every person in Canada, we win."

rychansays...

>> ^HenningKO: I expected Billo would say something like, "Well we Americans have much more stressful lives, we fight wars for example,"

I wouldn't put that past him, but of course, he'd be wrong there as well.
US casualties in Afghanistan: 2.17 per million inhabitants.
Canada casualties in Afghanistan: 4 per million inhabitants.

spoco2says...

I'm still going with the thought that he truthfully doesn't believe the shit he spouts, he just comes up with something he knows the right wing nutters will lap up and throws it out there.

He couldn't possibly actually believe this dribble.

Trancecoachsays...

Goes to show you that even if you say the most inane things with an authoritative tone of voice, there will be hundreds of thousands of people who believe that what you say is accurate and true.

Pathetic.

Zonbiesays...

My brain hurts...worse I can see some dedicated Fox viewers sitting at home nodding to themselves saying 'yeah, that makes sense'

No! No! No it doesn't! It doesn't make any sense!

WTF Bill!

cosmovitellisays...

The US is sold, sealed an delivered. People will die young (or continue to die) so the 'healthcare' corps can keep robbing them.
And this monster knows the truth but looks into the lens and and helps the super rich keep feeding off the morons.

If you are dumb enough to fall for this, some in America (O'Reilley included probably) would say you deserve an painful, early death without medical care.

But I don't. Even the dumbest, least educated, most opinionated buffoon is still a person who will suffer in private misery when the truth finally dawns, and then to find themselves only surrounded by blinkered greedy bigots is worse than dying, it means you're already in hell.
Are there no humanitarians anymore in America? How about human beings?

vairetubesays...

Removing obstacles to progress like BillO from the earth is the only true solution. Luckily, nature has a plan, called "eventually", and, eventually, this stuff will all be as nonsensical to people as slavery or witches or hitler or marijuana prohibition. Cool.

Bruti79says...

>> ^jwray:
BillO is a moron, not a journalist. We take it for granted that whatever he says will be bullshit. We don't need to sift it every week just to mock him.


It's going to blow our minds the one time he does actual journalism.

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