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I went on an adventure holiday very recently to the islands of Java and Bali in Indonesia which involved many long days out in the hot sun and temperatures over 30 degrees. About half way through the holiday I became very sick with a ...

I went on an adventure holiday very recently to the islands of Java and Bali in Indonesia which involved many long days out in the hot sun and temperatures over 30 degrees. About half way through the holiday I became very sick with a ...

Liberals can always point to the large number of countries that have higher taxes and more government spending than the US, and say "look, these countries get more vacations, work less hours, have universal healthcare (which is more efficient than ours), have better educated students than us (despite having public education), and they have GDP growth rates that are similar to ours." Canada, Sweden, Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, etc. the list goes on and on. Sure they don't have as many billionaires but they have less extreme poverty too and lower inequality. What do conservatives and libertarians have as examples? What do you use? Certainly there are some developing countries that have grown faster after liberalizing, but they are all much poorer than Western Europe or Canada and are likely to remain so for a very long time. I doubt many conservatives would point to China or India or Indonesia or Chile as their model economy to emulate. I suppose Hong Kong is a decent candidate, as Milton Friedman and others supported it, but it does have a lot of social welfare spending and while it has no income tax, the government pays for all these social programs by owning all the land in the country and leasing to private users. The government owning all land doesn't seem like something cons or libertarians would generally support. So is the booming, prosperous economy (with benefits for all, or most) that you believe would occur with deep cuts in spending and taxes just a utopian ideal? Or are there some actual examples you would use? [Can you do it without using US history? The biggest expansion of government and of the economy happend at the same time from post WWII to the 1950s-1970s (when the top marginal tax rate was very high), and Clinton who raised taxes oversaw the largest expansion in jobs and the stock market and economic growth since then.] I wasn't born in the US (Singapore actually). I asked for examples, don't tell me there are many examples. I agree that all communist economies failed - you need a private sector and incentives for innovation and to work hard. But no American liberal ever says we should be more like the Soviet Union or Cuba. We usually agree that those are examples of excessive government intervention. Your standard American liberal wants to emulate Sweden, not Soviet Russia. Greece is a better example of a failed state with a big government, but citing it doesn't exactly answer my question. And Greece is still much better off than most third world countries that have low taxes and spending, despite their financial crisis. So I see lots of examples of so-called liberal economies failing (really communists, not social democracies with private property and a large private sector). And a claim that Clinton got lucky (fair enough, I sort of agree there). But no positive examples. Anyone?

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I went on an adventure holiday very recently to the islands of Java and Bali in Indonesia which involved many long days out in the hot sun and temperatures over 30 degrees. About half way through the holiday I became very sick with a raging fever that came on suddenly in the middle of the night. I would feel boiling hot one moment and freezing cold, shivery and weak the next. Over the course of the next few days I developed terrible stomach cramps that meant I could not even get out of bed as well as a persistent feeling of nausea and the inability to keep any food, tablets or liquid down for longer than half an hour. The problems seemed to last for three days and then eased on the fourth and so I was able to continue with my holiday with only mild discomfort. The stomach cramps were still present though and occurred every time I ate anything more than a small bowl of soup. Now, ten days after my 'recovery' and two days after returning home my symptoms have suddenly reappeared in much the same way that they did in Indonesia - raging fever followed by stomach pain and nausea. I have a doctors appointment for tomorrow morning but I am very worried that this may be something more than a simple stomach upset due to the sudden recurrence. I would be very grateful if anyone could shed some light on what this could be, or recommend anything that they think would be good for me to eat/drink in this situation as I have not eaten properly for days and find it very difficult to keep anything down for long. Just some background information - I have no previously-diagnosed medical conditions and I have been taking the malaria tablets prescribed for me by my doctor (Chloroquinine and Proguanil) and have not missed a dose. I have taken both of these malaria tablets before with no bad reaction and so I am doubtful that it is the malaria tablets causing my problems. I have also had all recommenden immunisations for travelling to Indonesia. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Jana

I went on an adventure holiday very recently to the islands of Java and Bali in Indonesia which involved many long days out in the hot sun and temperatures over 30 degrees. About half way through the holiday I became very sick with a raging fever that came on suddenly in the middle of the night. I would feel boiling hot one moment and freezing cold, shivery and weak the next. Over the course of the next few days I developed terrible stomach cramps that meant I could not even get out of bed as well as a persistent feeling of nausea and the inability to keep any food, tablets or liquid down for longer than half an hour. The problems seemed to last for three days and then eased on the fourth and so I was able to continue with my holiday with only mild discomfort. The stomach cramps were still present though and occurred every time I ate anything more than a small bowl of soup. Now, ten days after my 'recovery' and two days after returning home my symptoms have suddenly reappeared in much the same way that they did in Indonesia - raging fever followed by stomach pain and nausea. I have a doctors appointment for tomorrow morning but I am very worried that this may be something more than a simple stomach upset due to the sudden recurrence. I would be very grateful if anyone could shed some light on what this could be, or recommend anything that they think would be good for me to eat/drink in this situation as I have not eaten properly for days and find it very difficult to keep anything down for long. Just some background information - I have no previously-diagnosed medical conditions and I have been taking the malaria tablets prescribed for me by my doctor (Chloroquinine and Proguanil) and have not missed a dose. I have taken both of these malaria tablets before with no bad reaction and so I am doubtful that it is the malaria tablets causing my problems. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Jana

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