Another reason entitlements need to go bye-bye

[Slathar]

Lol carefags

[Barkingturtle]

Originally Posted by Galanteer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

lots and lots of oil money helps

So oil money makes a populace live better than merely being the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world? Is there just something intrinsically happy about oil? That shit is amazing. Is there anything oil can't do?

[Loke]

Originally Posted by Daldolma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

US GDP was about $4.5 trillion, or almost a third, greater than China's for 2010.

Defense spending, nuclear weaponry, and military might isn't even close. And China likely isn't even #2.

I think you're confusing GDP with some other figure, maybe an inflated estimate recent years budget? Either that or you forgot a "1" in there. US GDP was just around 14 trillion if I remember right (too lazy to google).

[Slathar]

But Keynsian economics is a myth. We need to cut spending and give more tax breaks to people with private jets. Also, global warming is a liberal propaganda campaign.

Vote Exxon Mobile for president in 2012.

[Daldolma]

Originally Posted by Pico [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

fun fact, despite being the richest most powerful country in the world the US ranks far below every other first world country in quality of life lol

Uh, no. The US was 4th in the Human Development Index for 2010. Ahead? Norway, Australia, and New Zealand. Two of those 3 countries have a lower population than New York City. All three combined have a lower population than California.

[Daldolma]

Originally Posted by Loke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think you're confusing GDP with some other figure, maybe an inflated estimate recent years budget? Either that or you forgot a "1" in there. US GDP was just around 14 trillion if I remember right (too lazy to google).

Read the sentence. I said $4.5 trillion greater than China's. US GDP = ~ $14.5 trillion, depending on the source. China's was ~ $10 trillion.

[Barkingturtle]

Originally Posted by Daldolma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Norway's population is 5,000,000. They had one motherfucker go insane and start shooting kids and it took them 90 minutes to bring him down. It's a totally different country with a totally different role within the world.

The US population is almost 310,000,000. It's not possible to micromanage the standard of living for everyone the way a nation like Norway can. And anyway, that has never been the US's stated goal.

Sounds like we need to break up the union then, eh? I mean, if we're too big to sustain a quality of life befitting the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world then maybe we need to downsize. Most of New England is redundant, as is the Midwest and the South.

The US's goal has always been to provide equality of opportunity, not equality of results. Whether or not they've been successful, it's a different mindset entirely.

Gosh, I guess their results are just better than our opportunities then. That's really depressing if you spend more than a fucking second thinking about it.

[Loke]

Originally Posted by Slathar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But Keynsian economics is a myth. We need to cut spending.

yup

[Daldolma]

Originally Posted by Barkingturtle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sounds like we need to break up the union then, eh? I mean, if we're too big to sustain a quality of life befitting the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world then maybe we need to downsize. Most of New England is redundant, as is the Midwest and the South.



Gosh, I guess their results are just better than our opportunities then. That's really depressing if you spend more than a fucking second thinking about it.

Break up the union for what purpose? To win a paper battle over standard of living? Sure. Turn Connecticut into a country and you'll win the standard of living battle. I have a feeling Compton, CA isn't going to be too successful, though.

You're trying to be snarky over the fact that a mini-nation of 5,000,000 has a better average quality of life than the dominant world power, with a population of over 300,000,000. I don't understand why that's a revelation.

[Csihar]

Less economy, more psychology and sociology.