Another Socialist Victory in South America

That probably won't take long, the way Bush is heading.

If a person (or family) has purchased a house, and has 20% equity in that house, does that count as one owned house or as 0.20 owned houses?I suggest this is an important point, because mortgage lenders are requiring smaller down payments and slower repayment schedules than was once demanded.

Thus those figures are meaningless with respect to ownership rates.

A good understanding of history would lead academics to understand that rightist economic policies have been repeatedly tried in the past, and have resulted in disasterous failures. "Tulipmania", "The South Sea Bubble", and the 1929 crash all come to mind.

They are more narrowly educated.

Yes.Most physicians, accountants, lawyers take a more narrowly focussed curriculum than most scientists. They possibly have, on the average, lower IQs that scientists, but that's mainly a guess.Sure, there are exceptions.My experience suggests: Liberal arts and science faculty tend to be liberal, economics faculty tend toward libertarianism, other business school faculty tend to be a little more conservative than the liberal arts faculty but not to the extreme of Republican party of today. I suspect that education college faculty also tend to be a little more conservative than their liberal arts colleagues, but my evidence is very limited on education colleges.

At least in the U.S.A., most science is taught as part of a curriculum in liberal arts and sciences. Liberal arts colleges typically require a broad based undergraduate curriculum.Sure, once they get to grad school, what they study is more narrowly focussed.