I can't speak for Russia, but the US doesn't use capital punishment as a punishment/deterrent for embezzlement or theft, in absence of murder. Was it 99 or 98, that two hackers got the death penalty for hacking into a bank and stealing something in the 5-digit range? Once all the things China does use capital punishment for are added in, what effect on their totals?
>>>HARTFORD ADVOCATE
>>>-- According to Nader, the top 1 percent of the richest Americans
>>>have wealth equal to the combined wealth of 95 percent of other
>>>Americans: "It used to be said a rising economic tide lifts all
>>>boats. Now a rising economic tide lifts all yachts."
>
>Wealth concentration hasn't changed *that* much since the Fed's first
>Survey of Consumer Finances in 1963. Why do people like Nader assume
>or imply that things used to be a lot better, in that innocent
>pre-globalized past?
Because he has an agenda, is my first response. Because he has a selective memory (or is uninformed), is my second.
Reese