“In any given year in the United States anywhere from 30-40 percent of infants [that die,] die before they are even a day old.”

For example, distribution of age of infant deaths in US here:

http://ph.state.al.us/chs/HealthStatistics/Graphs/inf%20mort_age_AL00%20US99.pdf

You can see that nationwide, over half of recorded infant deaths occur within the first week of life. About a third of deaths that occur, do so within a day or less of birth (chart for the state of Alabama). The statistics do not vary hugely from state to state.

The above links are the results of very quick searches. They are not ideal, but rather adequate. Quite adequate.

Your ability to see what only you want to see is impressive. You could have checked this out in less than a minute, but you were already satisfied that you had identified a good fit with The Narrative.

What other easily corrected guff are you falling for?

Why? Because the United States also easily has the most intensive system of
emergency intervention to keep low birth weight and premature infants alive in the world. The United States is, for example, one of only a handful countries that keeps detailed statistics on early fetal mortality — the survival rate of infants who are born as early as the 20th week of gestation.

How does this skew the statistics? Because in the United States if an infant is born weighing only 400 grams and not breathing, a doctor will likely spend lot of time and money trying to revive that infant. If the infant does not survive — and the mortality rate for such infants is in excess of 50 percent — that sequence of events will be recorded as a live birth and then a death.

In many countries, however, (including many European countries) such severe medical intervention would not be attempted and, moreover, regardless of whether or not it was, this would be recorded as a fetal death rather than a live birth. That unfortunate infant would never show up in infant mortality statistics.”

http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/cuba-vs-the-united-states-on-infant-mortality/

JESUS CHRIST what a bunch of sniveling wretches post here.

Such weakness.

To the non-bedwetters here, thanks for talking sense.

You have to consider the fact that the Nazis opperated for a very short time, wheras the Sovietunion existed for more than 70 years.

Almost everyone agrees that if you consider the short timespan, the Nazis were far worse.

>>The German economy improved quite a bit after Hitler came to >>power. So?

It’s a good incetive for US to improve there mortality rate, but a bad excuse for suporting the cuban government.

The German economy improved quite a bit after Hitler came to power. So?

A short addendum to my 8:48 post: To my mind the Only thing that separates the Vietnamese Communists from their Russian and Chinese counterparts in terms of levels of evil/depradation
is the fact that they simply were NOT ABLE to put many of their desires and beliefs into action ONLY because they lacked the CAPABILITY. “That’s the bottom line of all history”, as has been stated elsewhere: CAPABILITY Mao and Stalin simply had it to a greater degree than Uncle Ho, that’s all–otherwise there is not a “dimes worth of difference” between them.

The newly elected Republican Representative from the 2nd Dist, New Orleans, La., the first Vietnamese American to be elected to Congress, who defeated Federally indicted William “Cold Cash” Jefferson(D) had, at his side, his Father at the victory celebration. His Father was wheelchair-bound thanks to the kind ministrations meted out to him by the Vietnamese Communists
during a 9 year “stay” in a “re-education” camp. I relate this by way of saying that the evils of Communism have far historically far exceeded the “cosmic levels of evilness” you attribute to Hitler and the Nazis. Those guys were pikers compared to the Communists. According to the authors of “The Black Book of Communism” and others like Robert Conquest, et al., Communism has killed well over 100 million (mainly of it’s own citizens) in the latter half of the 20th Century. A greater evil on that scale has never been seen on the face of the earth. Next to Communism, Hitler and his henchmen were as of nothing. So, yes, I along with the Father of newly elected Rep. CAO, (if I may take the liberty of guessing his feelings after spending time subject to the tender mercies of the Vietnamese Communists) do indeed believe ourselves to have been opposing an existential threat–Cao and his father directly, and we in America indirectly, “en grosso mondo,” as it were. And while full well realizing Communism is not a monolith, I believe the that the thousand of boat people who risked death by drowning, dehydration or starvation in an attempt to escape the minions
sent by Hanoi to enslave/”re-educate” them bear stark witness to the demonstrable fear these refugees had for an evil regime.
And for this fact I feel efforts by America to aid those Vietnamese who wished to resist this regime were justified.

And, no, I do NOT believe EVERY Axis pilot who killed more civilians than combatants to have been a mass murderer. But to be fair, you raise a good point about the nature of modern technological warfare and the whole concept of preventive/”limited” wars and what constitutes a “Justis Hostis” This is a discussion too long for here now as it is 12:15am Pacific Coast time, so I’ll perhaps make a second detailed, in-depth post 10-12 hrs from now here if you want to check back.

Regarding Cuba and the other socialist (read Communist) states and their statistics. (…) The statistics on the economy were so bad that the new Russian government used the CIA statistics by preference.

Cuba’s infant mortality rate is lower than the US’s not only according to Cuban statistics, but also according to CIA statistics.