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The 25 richest countries in the world

Fledermaus said:
Wish in one hand, defecate in the other. Guess which gets filled first.

Carry on with your lies.

BTW - You never stated where you are from. I am rural California.
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rural california huh that explains it im guessing your from one of those towns with 20 or 30 people, right?
 
Fledermaus said:
And you would be guessing wrong.... Like usual.

But, thanks for playing.

So, your location? Don't have to be specific.
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so is your town big enough to have a police station or is it one those "I got my 6 shooter n' my dog" kinda farm towns?
 
Damn, I'd pay to watch you two do this in real life. Pulling hair. Kicking shins. Swinging plastic lunch boxes with cartoons on them.
 
Fledermaus said:
So, ashamed?

Let me guess.

Mommy's basement in the burbs.
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lol :roll:...

so Im guessing your in complete denial about how crappy america really is, you must be a baby boomer, and you lived through a time when america had zero global competition and benefited from racial segregation and now you can't understand why your kids and grandkids can't afford a house and car, right out of school like you did. Must be folks back in your day "worked harder". right?

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RDS said:
2013 figures is fit for the museum.
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If you find more recent data, spend your time putting it up.

Instead of making a smart-ass remark ...
 
THE COLLECTIVE US

dimensionallava said:
its hard to compare the two countries on a national level
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It's not that difficult either. The data is there, one simply needs to know how to look for it. Putting a phrase into a google-search is necessary but not sufficient. One must know how to put the question correctly. Google does not think for us, just reacts to our thinking.

In fact, what is hard to do is compare two countries of comparative size and culture. Which means only this: We an compare the US and the EU (due to comparative sizes), but we cannot compare either the US or the EU to China on purely a size-basis.

So, suffice it to say, that we should consider ourselves lucky to be able to compare the US and the EU, because they are not only economically but also sociologically similar. Which should surprise no one, since many of our forebears came from Europe.

Historically, however, something happened that has led to the stark differentiation between the two. The US, for all its insistence on being the Pinnacle of Freedom, is no more free or less free than Europe. So, it is not in the nature of "freedom" that the differences between the two are pronounced.

It is in the fact that the EU has adopted a sense of Social Democracy, whilst the US has remained just a Democracy. And I do not intend, by that remark, to diminish the latter and favor the former. I am simply underlining an historical development that many (including myself) consider important.

But, I do believe this following remark characterizes today's comparison between both: Something happened after WW2 such that Europe took one road of evolution and the US took quite another - and in doing so both have diverged from one another very seriously.

MY POINT?

Both economic entities, the US and EU, remain similar in their love of freedom of speech and action. But also both are fundamentally different in character, and the reason is in the nature of a Social Democracy. Whereas in Europe the accent of importance is placed upon the "collective us", in the US it is placed upon the "individual us" ...

This distinction is important in a socioeconomic context. In Europe, the success of the nation as a whole is far more important a goal, than the success of any given individual as in the US. That is, Individual Success financially in the US seems far more laudable than the Collective Success of all.

Tell me how that statement is wrong ...
 
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dimensionallava said:
lol :roll:...

so Im guessing your in complete denial about how crappy america really is, you must be a baby boomer, and you lived through a time when america had zero global competition and benefited from racial segregation and now you can't understand why your kids and grandkids can't afford a house and car, right out of school like you did. Must be folks back in your day "worked harder". right?
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Look at all the non-answer to the question.

And more prattle.
 
Lafayette said:
Not only.

The man is erratic and uninformed, playing to the masses like a demagogue.

There is no way that any Rational Person should want that idiot with his finger on the nuclear-war button.
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I agree that he is erratic and at least appears to be uninformed. I also suspect that he promotes this persona because most voters are erratic and uninfomed.

I suspect that if he gets in office, he will be far less erratic and will become farm more informed. He's not stupid, he's just using what's been working for him so far in this election.

The general public really does't like academics, they like people who think like them.
 
dimensionallava said:
do you think I love australia or something? i said this is what most of america looks like, you jumped into call me liar about 5 times, then you post a misleading stat about how many americans live in the suburbs then post a picture of (what im guessing was) was your house, now your saying australia has poor parts too? when did i say it didn't? and how does that prove im a liar about anything? the average american (excluding the 1%)makes $30,000 per year, and 80% live in urban areas. What do you think someones neighborhood who makes that much money and lives in a urban area, anywhere in the USA looks like?

why don't you state your position like a big boy, are you arguing for free market blah blah, or right-libertarianism, are you trying to defend capitalism as a philosophy, or america the country, or the building of white flight cul-de-sacs? or do you just really really hate australia?

what was it about that first picture (which was a suburb of philadelphia btw) that upset you?
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Honestly, you are delusional if you think that most Americans live in that type of poverty.

Just as an experiement, I googled (images) my community, to try to get an idea of how others may view it, and to see if a random selection of photos matched my perception of this community. I'd say that this group of pictures identically mirrors what I see ever day.

One of the reasons that I picked my community is because it's one of the most demographically average places in the country, and it's a suburb of a small city (the city was also pictured frequently in the google listings). We have about the average wealth distribution, racial diversity, etc.

Take a look and see if this looks like most Americans are poor:

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imagep said:
The general public really does't like academics, they like people who think like them.
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That's what they had before Obama. And look what they did to him.

There are these aspects of American politics that are highly dangerous:
*People are disgusted with politics and have no real understanding of underlying issues. If they understood, really 'n truly, political nuances then the US would be a truly multiparty system - perhaps like the UK.
*They have no respect for Civic Duty, which requires that they vote - even if they vote blank, which is also pertinent information regarding the legitimacy of an election.
*Money can buy elections, but not because it is employed to "buy votes". If people can be manipulated by BoobTube adverts, what does that say for their fundamental understanding of political issues that are, in fact, very complicated. Which is why most do not want to be bothered. So, they have the political governance that they deserve.
*They have very little education in Civics - only nine states require passing a Civics Course exam in order to graduate. About 90% have just one semester of Civics - which is better than nothing. But not much better ...
*In 2015, it was a record year for renouncing American citizenship. Why? Because of FATCA, which means that they cannot shop around for banking services because European banks do not accept their business - due to the reporting requirements to the US government. (And, yes, no doubt, FATCA was intended to "out" Americans living in the US hiding their money offshore. As did Mrs. Romney in a Geneva bank, or so the story goes.)
*But, in fact, the act has hurt us 3/6 million Yanks who do live abroad. Though we are obliged to pay American taxes upon our foreign income (above a certain income level), we are not allowed representation in Congress.

Some call that "Taxation without representation", and we went to war on the battle-cry once in 1776! Our representation in Congress is that of the our last place of residence in the US. And who thinks that those congressmen or -women give a rat's ass about the tiny American population living abroad that voted for them in the US ... ?
 
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Extreme wealth per capita means little.

Saudi Arabia is on the list and that is a horrible country for rights and freedoms.

I will take rights and freedoms for all over a super, high income-per-capita any day.
 
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