France and Much of the Rest of Europe are Moving Ahead of the USA in job Creation now

America is a moneytocracy, its all about money and little else. People who are left without health care are dying and they are going to continue to die when this "reform," which is itself dead on arrival, goes into effect.

It's your money or your life. Don't have much money? Well, it will just have to be your life...

Meanwhile, Europe, which is of course much more progressive than the US, has now routed the US in the "Who has the Better System" competition.

Until roughly a decade ago, about the only thing the US could point to that was better or stronger in the US than in Europe was the higher US relative rate of job creation. Now that is history: Most countries of Europe, and all the major ones except possibly Spain, have higher rates of job creation than does the US since at least late 2006.

Most European countries are losing jobs these days, but only a very small number relative to population compared with the massive job losses in the US. But, and this is important, even prior to the current economic contraction, Europe had drawn even with the US in the only major thing the US could brag about. Starting from about 1997 and through about 2006, the rate of job creation was roughly equal between the US and Europe, including France. Starting with 2007, France and most other European countries have pulled well ahead of the US in terms of creation of jobs relative to the population.

It will take at least two years, but eventually this news will reach the general public.

If you want to verify what I am telling you, visit the OECD statistics site and use its high quality, state of the art database. (Hint, use the index presentation of the employment data in the labor section.)

http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx

By the way, don't be stupid and look at unemployment rates, because European unemployment statistics are far more accurate than the US ones; everyone knows that actual US unemployment rates are much, much higher than the ones published.

Getting back to the moneytocracy, check this out:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/21/executive-pay-wsj/

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