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Edited by Britton:
9/23/2015 1:17:55 PM
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AMERICA! WE'RE #10?
www.prosperity.com gauges the prosperity of nations on many many factors.
The main variables and where america ranks are as follows:
Economy
[spoiler]17th[/spoiler]
Entrepreneurship and Opportunity
[spoiler]11th[/spoiler]
Education
[spoiler]12th[/spoiler]
Governance
[spoiler]11th[/spoiler]
Health
[spoiler]1st[/spoiler]
Safety and Security
[spoiler]31st[/spoiler]
Personal Freedom
[spoiler]21st[/spoiler]
Social Capital
[spoiler]7th[/spoiler]
[url=http://www.prosperity.com/#!/explore-data?opts=2Ekxmx-Ulx3y1]Here's[/url] what each variable entails.
As you can see, we are leading in overall health, (and we should, i see a lot of well fed mother -blam!-ers out there) but that is it. The American Dream™ is becoming more of a dream and less of a reality.
So, when people get all up in arms when others want to emulate what other countries are doing right, I really have to ask if they have the best interest of everyone in mind.
Discuss.
Edit: I agree our healthcare system is not #1 and the health ranking isn't measuring that. It's measuring health within the context of prosperity. There's links for a reason.
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2 RepliesHow in the world are we not first for freedom
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1 ReplyThat's the problem, a lot of Americans don't want to be prosperous, they want to be NUMBER ONE TOP DOGS ALPHA TEAM EAGLE STRIKE OMEGA BADASS EXTREME! Because many of my fellow Americans don't understand what it means to live in harmony with the rest of the world.
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Вы грязные капиталистические свиньи собаки . Да здравствует СССР ☭
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Вы грязные капиталистические свиньи собаки . Да здравствует СССР ☭
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5 RepliesI literally lost my shit when you said 1st in health. I don't care what J say, it's not like you fat bastards are going to run and catch up to me.
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[quote] Health [spoiler]1st[/spoiler] [/quote] I wonder what it was before the ACA.
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1 ReplyI noticed they're all socialist countries too, seems like capitalism is losing its charm. Or those other countries learned from the American experiment.
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4 RepliesHow is it 12th in education?????????????
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42 RepliesEdited by Rick Fox: 9/22/2015 5:05:24 PMAll of these countries combined make up about 120 million people. What is that, 1/3 of our population? I doubt it's very difficult to make Norway***, a country of 5 million people, a great place. I mean it's only 1.5% of our population
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6 RepliesStill a good rank when we have the third largest population.
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6 RepliesWoohoo, Canada. ( •~•)/
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And 49th in the World Freedom Press Index...hooray
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1 ReplyNumber of adults believing in angels [spoiler]#1 ;)[/spoiler]
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4 RepliesSafety and security 21st what. The US is the safest place on earth hands down if you still don't feel safe care a gun.
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3 RepliesI find it hard to believe Germany isn't in the top 10
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2 RepliesHow is the economy stat measured? I thought we were 1st in GDP.
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5 RepliesI love how every country above the US is socialist but everyone in America thinks it's the worst thing ever. I'm American and it's not that I'm for socialism, I just think that's kind of strange that it's condemned here but everyone above us has a socialist government.
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10 still has 1 in it... WE'RE NUMBER 1! WE'RE NUMBER 1! WE'RE NUMBER 1!
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Edited by FuzzyWolfCub: 9/24/2015 1:22:30 AMDid you make these statistics? Socialism (basically communism) is for lazy bastards who live off others hard work aka welfare... And notice for the past 7-8 years we have been run by a "democrat" who has basically attempted to make America socialist, so yes these statistics make sense.
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1 ReplyHealth is a big one considering we don't have to walk the streets with masks on...
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3 RepliesSo this ranking is out of every country on the planet right? If so then being #10 out of nearly 200 countries is pretty good.
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1 Reply31st in safety and security?
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1 ReplyWho cares?
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14 RepliesEdited by thottie: 9/23/2015 1:20:33 AM[u][b]when you realize you can add all 9 of those countries populations and it still is less than America[/b][/u] its a tough comparison btw the way, you can blame the low education rating on bible thumpers trying to push religion in school
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Socialism is OP please nerf.
