This country ranks No. 1 for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (its not America)

[tyroneweaver]

One thing all third world countries have in common is the rich couple of percent have nearly all the wealth and the poor can never move upwards. That is what liberterianism and the koch brothers are doing to our country.

Wake the **** up.

The 5 richest counties are in Virginia einstein

He said countries, not counties.

The Koch bros have nothing to do with people being rich or
Poor when the 5 richest counties in America are centered around DC,
Btw, the bro’s aren’t countries either

 

[Anathema]

We have to lock them up!

No. We have to execute them as a threat to national security.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

One thing all third world countries have in common is the rich couple of percent have nearly all the wealth and the poor can never move upwards. That is what liberterianism and the koch brothers are doing to our country.

Wake the **** up.

The 5 richest counties are in Virginia einstein

He said countries, not counties.

it is forbidden to cite ONE LETTER typos----slip of the forefinger you NIT PICKER

Hey dumb ass! It wasn't a typo. He was talking about counties in Virginia. That is. unless you are stupid enough to believe a state contains countries, ...

Keep working on that reading. You might actually become fluent in English someday.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

This country ranks No. 1 for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (its not America)
This country ranks No. 1 for ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ (it’s not America)

Norway ranked the No. 1 place for happiness and personal freedom, according to an analysis of three separate studies on life expectancy by the World Bank, on civil liberties from Freedom House, a New York-based nonprofit that conducts research on advocacy and democracy, on happiness from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a group linked to the United Nations, and on rule of law from the World Justice Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit.

...

The U.S. has seen its happiness slide happiness over the last decade. In 2007, it ranked No. 3 among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. Last year, it was 19th, down from 13th the year before. “The predominant political discourse in the United States is aimed at raising economic growth, with the goal of restoring the American Dream and the happiness that is supposed to accompany it. But the data show conclusively that this is the wrong approach,” the report concluded.

For those interviewed in the report, perception is reality. At least, as far as their happiness is concerned and, experts say, the divisive political climate likely hasn’t helped. “The United States can and should raise happiness by addressing America’s multi-faceted social crisis — rising inequality, corruption, isolation, and distrust — rather than focusing exclusively or even mainly on economic growth, especially since the concrete proposals along these lines would exacerbate rather than ameliorate the deepening social crisis,” the report said.

...

The U.S showed less social support, less sense of personal freedom, lower donations, and more perceived corruption of government and business, it said. “America’s crisis is, in short, a social crisis, not an economic crisis… Almost all of the policy discourse in Washington, D.C. centers on naïve attempts to raise the economic growth rate, as if a higher growth rate would somehow heal the deepening divisions and angst in American society. This kind of growth-only agenda is doubly wrong-headed.”

Social democracies lead the world!!! High political freedom, strong safetynet, educated population and high GDP per capita!

WTF does America have??? Low political freedom, weak safetynet that a certain party wants to do away with all together and to hell with the suffering poor, one of the lowest in education but the religious like it that way and a dropping GDP per capita.

America is becoming a second world country.

You should move there and quit ******* up America

 

[irosie91]

One thing all third world countries have in common is the rich couple of percent have nearly all the wealth and the poor can never move upwards. That is what liberterianism and the koch brothers are doing to our country.

Wake the **** up.

The 5 richest counties are in Virginia einstein

He said countries, not counties.

it is forbidden to cite ONE LETTER typos----slip of the forefinger you NIT PICKER

Hey dumb ass! It wasn't a typo. He was talking about counties in Virginia. That is. unless you are stupid enough to believe a state contains countries, ...

Keep working on that reading. You might actually become fluent in English someday.

ADMIRAL? on retirement or separation or institutionalization? was it I who signed your
commitment papers?

 

[irosie91]

One thing all third world countries have in common is the rich couple of percent have nearly all the wealth and the poor can never move upwards. That is what liberterianism and the koch brothers are doing to our country.

Wake the **** up.

The 5 richest counties are in Virginia einstein

He said countries, not counties.

it is forbidden to cite ONE LETTER typos----slip of the forefinger you NIT PICKER

Hey dumb ass! It wasn't a typo. He was talking about counties in Virginia. That is. unless you are stupid enough to believe a state contains countries, ...

Keep working on that reading. You might actually become fluent in English someday.

states contain COUNTIES-------countries vs countries is a type. some dysphasias are based on short circuits in the
left fronto-tempero parietal area---(in the majority of people---
very few right fronto-temporo-parietal area) A larger number of persons who are LEFT HANDED like me-----are RIGHT hemisphere dominant. But I am left Hemisphere dominant.
You are ANENCEPHALIC. (a very rare congenital anomaly)

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

What else does most western europe countries have over America
1. Low prison population. In America we have the biggest on earth as everything is illegal!
2. Getting sick can ******* destroy your life here in America...That doesn't happen in western europe.

Oh'yesss, loserterianism is so ******* free and wonderful. About as free as living in somalia and wondering if you're going to get blown away in the middle of the night.

Here's a hint.
Immigrants are 22 percent of federal prison population

The sensible policy would be to deport all criminal Immigrants, if you have 22 percent of your prison population who are Immigrants they should be deported to nation of origin, not have American taxpayers paying to keep them in your prisons.

They just turn around, come back in, and commit more crimes!

We have to lock them up!

Yes they do, like the one who was deported 20 times and he murdered a woman and the Judge let him walk, he should of course be sentenced to death, but the insanity of Political Correctness is somewhere in that Judge's outrageous decision to pervert justice.

I hope The Donald can Build The Wall, the best situation would be to have the wall and every 200 yards have towers with mounted machine guns, that should send the message. Every nation on this planet has a right to protect it's borders, no nation on this plan is under obligation to have a semi open border and allow hundreds of thousands of illegals just walk in and demand to stay and be given free things because of Muh Human Rights etc.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

One thing all third world countries have in common is the rich couple of percent have nearly all the wealth and the poor can never move upwards. That is what liberterianism and the koch brothers are doing to our country.

Wake the **** up.

The 5 richest counties are in Virginia einstein

He said countries, not counties.

it is forbidden to cite ONE LETTER typos----slip of the forefinger you NIT PICKER

Hey dumb ass! It wasn't a typo. He was talking about counties in Virginia. That is. unless you are stupid enough to believe a state contains countries, ...

Keep working on that reading. You might actually become fluent in English someday.

ADMIRAL? on retirement or separation or institutionalization? was it I who signed your
commitment papers?

So, you can't respond by apologizing for your error?

Dumb ass!

One thing all third world countries have in common is the rich couple of percent have nearly all the wealth and the poor can never move upwards. That is what liberterianism and the koch brothers are doing to our country.

Wake the **** up.

The 5 richest counties are in Virginia einstein

He said countries, not counties.

it is forbidden to cite ONE LETTER typos----slip of the forefinger you NIT PICKER

Hey dumb ass! It wasn't a typo. He was talking about counties in Virginia. That is. unless you are stupid enough to believe a state contains countries, ...

Keep working on that reading. You might actually become fluent in English someday.

states contain COUNTIES-------countries vs countries is a type. some dysphasias are based on short circuits in the
left fronto-tempero parietal area---(in the majority of people---
very few right fronto-temporo-parietal area) A larger number of persons who are LEFT HANDED like me-----are RIGHT hemisphere dominant. But I am left Hemisphere dominant.
You are ANENCEPHALIC. (a very rare congenital anomaly)

Still trying to pass off your inability to read as being my fault? Dumb ass!

 

[irosie91]

The 5 richest counties are in Virginia einstein

He said countries, not counties.

it is forbidden to cite ONE LETTER typos----slip of the forefinger you NIT PICKER

Hey dumb ass! It wasn't a typo. He was talking about counties in Virginia. That is. unless you are stupid enough to believe a state contains countries, ...

Keep working on that reading. You might actually become fluent in English someday.

ADMIRAL? on retirement or separation or institutionalization? was it I who signed your
commitment papers?

So, you can't respond by apologizing for your error?

Dumb ass!

The 5 richest counties are in Virginia einstein

He said countries, not counties.

it is forbidden to cite ONE LETTER typos----slip of the forefinger you NIT PICKER

Hey dumb ass! It wasn't a typo. He was talking about counties in Virginia. That is. unless you are stupid enough to believe a state contains countries, ...

Keep working on that reading. You might actually become fluent in English someday.

states contain COUNTIES-------countries vs countries is a type. some dysphasias are based on short circuits in the
left fronto-tempero parietal area---(in the majority of people---
very few right fronto-temporo-parietal area) A larger number of persons who are LEFT HANDED like me-----are RIGHT hemisphere dominant. But I am left Hemisphere dominant.
You are ANENCEPHALIC. (a very rare congenital anomaly)

Still trying to pass off your inability to read as being my fault? Dumb ass!

"APOLOGIZE"? did I hurt someone?

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Norway capitulated to the Nazis during the 20th century. Something called "world bank on civil liberties" might gush over Norway's social condition today but there are no guarantees anywhere in the world of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" other than the United States of America. Try entering Norway without proper papers and find yourself on the first plane home after a stint in jail. The United States of America offers life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to more illegal aliens than the freaking population of all the Scandinavian countries combined.

"Try entering Norway without proper papers and find yourself on the first plane home after a stint in jail. The United States of America offers life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to more illegal aliens than the freaking population of all the Scandinavian countries combined."

Which is why you should become more like Norway, when you get the illegals either lock them up permanently in perhaps an expanded Gitmo or deport them but before deporting them you could I don't know microchip them like dog owners microchip their dogs so if they go missing they can be easily found, so before deporting the illegals microchip them then if the inevitable happens and they re enter America at least your law authorities have a better chance of finding them.

You have I think 11 million illegal immigrants, WTF is that about, how did you get such a huge number of them it's just insane and then you have the Leftists and Leftist Activist Judges and Mayors etc protecting these people who are in full violation of the law by harbouring them in these Sanctuary Cities, why aren't Sanctuary Cities just not declared illegal and shut down and all money cut off that goes into them, make them into wastelands.

 

[Dragonlady]

You’re better off by putting your education and experience to work to solve today’s problems of inequity and injustice instead of romanticizing the past.

Injustice, yes. We need to harshly and violently punish ALL criminals, of every social and economic caste. Inequality is the natural state of human life. To believe otherwise is sheer foolishness, and not something the Founders actually believed in.

One of the principles your Founding Fathers strongly believed in was to avoid the endless wars and militarism that was rampant in Europe at the time. A focus on building up the country and investing in its infrastructure, development and ensuring a good education for everyone is what made America great.

I am Again st all military interventionism. Including WWI & WWII.

You are sorely mistaken to believe that the Founders saw education, housing, most infrstructure, or the country as the Federal Government's purview. Those things were the focus of the States and the People.

America was to be made or broken on the backs of the Peoole, NOT the Government.

Your Founders believed that the people mattered. Government of the people, by the people and for the people, but that has been perverted. It’s now government of the people, by the rich, and for the rich and their Corporations.

It has been perverted, by expanding the definition of "People" far beyond the intended boundaries and by allowing Government to become it's own self-perpetuating force.

You say that there have been two internal wars - the Revolutionary War won by the people, the Civil War won by the government, and a rubber match is needed. Your take on this is false. The people won the Civil War as well. The South partitioned the country and left the Union. The American people who remained united under the Constitution won the war.

If there’s a “rubber match” it will be won the government. There is no other possible outcome. They have the best equipped army in the history of the world, with weapons of unimaginable power. Any force which opposes them will by outmanned and most assuredly outgunned.

The People of the South voted, through their elected representatives to leave the United States. The Constitution was never intended to be a suicide pact between the States. They did so in a non-violent manner until forced to take arms Again st a post the Union knew it could not hold but refused to surrender.

You fail to realize how much of the military, law enforcement and civil defense of the US Government would fight against the Government. Even if it weren't so, it is better to die on one's feet thsn live on our knees.

So the choice is yours. Do you work together to form a more perfect union, where “all men are created equal” or do you continue to let the politics of lies and division continue to sap your strength and vitality?

All menare not created equal and to suggest so is foolishness and in the modern lexicon a total misinterpretation of the Founders beliefs. There is no Together when the very intent of our Founders is besmerched by everythibg the other side believes. Even if it means being forced to adopt Authoritarianism to do so.

Your words make a travesty of everything your Founders believed in. You don’t believe in the Constitution or even their intentions.

Their intention was that everyone have an equal opportunity to rise to the level of their ability. You believe that since not everyone has equal ability, they don’t deserve equal opportunity.

You also over-estimate the willingness of law enforcement and other government workers to go to war against their employers. If these people didn’t believe in enforcing the laws of the land, they’d be in another line of work. And even if they were willing to take up arms against their government, the war machine is still the government’s property. The planes, helicopters, MOAB’s all belong to the Feds.

You talk about the government as if it were some separate entity apart from its citizens. It’s not. It can be held accountable. If the Party in power is a disappointment don’t return them to office overvand over. Decimate the Party. Vote someone else in.

In Canada we destroy political parties who disappoint us. It’s very effective at keeping the rest of them in line.

 

[Kondor3]

Yea, people are flocking to immigrate to Norway. ......

Muzzies, too? There goes the neighborhood...

 

[Kondor3]

...Norway ranked the No. 1...

Yeah... it's easy... when you've been hunkered down under the American Shield throughout the Cold War and leaning on them for any serious national defense.

Really amazing, how much you can do, when you're not forced to sink tons of money into your own Defense, even in the face of Aggressive Communism during the Cold War.

 

[whitehall]

The funny thing is that Norway's standard of living depends ....gasp....on oil production. Norway's GDP has dropped to 370 billion (U.S. dollars) from around 500 in the last couple of years while the US GDP continues to be around 18570 and rising. Thanks to liberal government funded abortion, Norway's population remains stagnant at about 5 million people who either live in the tundra similar to U.S.'s Alaska or in apartments that are similar to U.S. garages or old Russian junk. There is a reason that immigrants aren't flocking to Norway, frozen socialism ain't what it's cracked up to be.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

The funny thing is that Norway's standard of living depends ....gasp....on oil production. Norway's GDP has dropped to 370 billion (U.S. dollars) from around 500 in the last couple of years while the US GDP continues to be around 18570 and rising. Thanks to liberal government funded abortion, Norway's population remains stagnant at about 5 million people who either live in the tundra similar to U.S.'s Alaska or in apartments that are similar to U.S. garages or old Russian junk. There is a reason that immigrants aren't flocking to Norway, frozen socialism ain't what it's cracked up to be.

^^^^ You know this how, have you ever spent time in Norway? No you probably haven't, also Norway is not a Socialist nation. I know more about Norway and the system in Norway than you do, being married to a Norwegian and the first year we got married we basically lived the whole year in Trondheim and also Mr. Lucy's brother works IN the Norwegian Government being the Private Secretary to a Government Minister.

"Thanks to liberal government funded abortion"

America has that liberal government funded abortion also, what are you saying American taxpayers money don't fund abortions? Since Roe vs Wade you American taxpayers have paid for approx 56 MILLION babies to be murdered as they slumber in the womb.

"There is a reason that immigrants aren't flocking to Norway,"

No the reason why immigrants are not flocking to Norway is because the Right-Wing Norwegian Government has a year and a half ago put newspaper ads in EVERY newspaper that's in a Third World craphole telling them NOT to bother going to Norway because Norway is NOT going to give them Welfare benefits and other free things.

 

[Lastamender]

The amazing thing is we are the only modern country without 5 6 week paid vacations after a year a living wage free healthcare free daycare free University... All to protect the poor Mega rich and rich people half of home want to pay more the good Democrats

You need to move.

You need to get a braid, brainwashed functional moron... Why are we the only country in the modern world which doesn't have 5 6 week vacations after a year, free healthcare free daycare free University good infrastructure..... All to save the rich the bloated rich... You are such a punk you would support a king you people don't deserve to have democracy stupid.

Can you back up one thing you say without insults and rhetoric. Why ***** about what you don't have? Does the country owe you?

I've got everything I want... What is the matter with you people? LOL yes the country owes me but especially the GOP a****** Rich owe me, super dupe. And all you brainwashed functional morons who vote for them... Stupidest voters anywhere... The United States used to be a leader in social equality. No more now Idiot. and you will never figure it out so why not just insult you. At least I have a reason LOL. Tell me I have to leave my country I'll be down there and bite your stupid head off.

The country owes you what?

I am fine but you stupid ignorant tubes of the greedy idiot Mega Rich GOP and the new BS GOP propaganda machine are a disastrous disgrace. Reaganist tax rates and policies have been ruining the middle class, our infrastructure, and the country for 35 years now. All the GOP has is b******* hate propaganda and silly brainwashed Dupes like you...
TLDR. You can't even answer a simple question.
the past 60 years the American dream has gradually disappeared. The process was slow, so most people didn’t notice. They just worked a few more hours, borrowed a little more and cut back on non-essentials. But looking at the numbers and comparing them over long time periods, it is obvious that things have changed drastically. Here are the details:

1. WORKERS PRODUCE MORE BUT THE GAINS GO TO BUSINESS.

Over the past 63 years worker productivity has grown by 2.0% per year.

But after 1980, workers received a smaller share every year. Labor’s share of income (1992 = 100%):

1950 = 101%
1960 = 105%
1970 = 105%
1980 = 105% – Reagan
1990 = 100%
2000 = 96%
2007 = 92%

A 13% drop since 1980

2. THE TOP 10% GET A LARGER SHARE.

Share of National Income going to Top 10%:

1950 = 35%
1960 = 34%
1970 = 34%
1980 = 34% – Reagan
1990 = 40%
2000 = 47%
2007 = 50%

An increase of 16% since Reagan.

3. WORKERS COMPENSATED FOR THE LOSS OF INCOME BY SPENDING THEIR SAVINGS.

The savings Rose up to Reagan and fell during and after.

1950 = 6.0%
1960 = 7.0%
1970 = 8.5%
1980 = 10.0% – Reagan
1982 = 11.2% – Peak
1990 = 7.0%
2000 = 2.0%
2006 = -1.1% (Negative = withdrawing from savings)

A 12.3% drop after Reagan.

4. WORKERS ALSO BORROWED TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS.

Household Debt as percentage of GDP:

1965 = 46%
1970 = 45%
1980 = 50% – Reagan
1990 = 61%
2000 = 69%
2007 = 95%

A 45% increase after 1980.

5. SO THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICHEST AND THE POOREST HAS GROWN.

Gap Between the Share of Capital Income earned by the top 1%
and the bottom 80%:

1980 = 10%
2003 = 56%

A 5.6 times increase.

6. AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IS GONE.

The Probably of Moving Up from the Bottom 40% to the Top 40%:

1945 = 12%
1958 = 6%
1990 = 3%
2000 = 2%

A 10% Decrease.

Links:

1 = ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/pf/totalf1.txt
1 = https://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/PolicyDis/No7Nov04.pdf
1 = Clipboard01.jpg (image)
2 – http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/04/27/CongratulationstoEmmanuelSaez/
3 = http://www.demos.org/inequality/images/charts/uspersonalsaving_thumb.gif
3 = U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
4 = Federated Prudent Bear Fund (A): Overview
4 = The Fed - Financial Accounts of the United States - Z.1 - Current Release
5/6 = 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America

Overview = http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062415/reagan-revolution-home-roost-charts

TLDR You can't answer a simple question? You are fine but the country owes you. We must right this terrible wrong.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

The funny thing is that Norway's standard of living depends ....gasp....on oil production. Norway's GDP has dropped to 370 billion (U.S. dollars) from around 500 in the last couple of years while the US GDP continues to be around 18570 and rising. Thanks to liberal government funded abortion, Norway's population remains stagnant at about 5 million people who either live in the tundra similar to U.S.'s Alaska or in apartments that are similar to U.S. garages or old Russian junk. There is a reason that immigrants aren't flocking to Norway, frozen socialism ain't what it's cracked up to be.

"There is a reason that immigrants aren't flocking to Norway,"

No the reason why immigrants are not flocking to Norway is because the Right-Wing Norwegian Government has a year and a half ago put newspaper ads in EVERY newspaper that's in a Third World craphole telling them NOT to bother going to Norway because Norway is NOT going to give them Welfare benefits and other free things.

They also put the ads in Russian newspapers because the Syrians and Afghans were going Arctic and trying to get into Norway across the Arctic border they share with Russia.

Norway launches anti-refugee advertising campaign

As I said Norway is NOT a Socialist nation, they are very Conservative and have a Right-Wing Government that was recently re-elected.

Americans either need to educate themselves about the rest of the world, which they do not have any idea about, or stop posting ignorant comments about nations being Socialist or whatever or run the risk of being shown how ignorant and uneducated you are about the rest of the world.

The Norwegian Government is a Conservative-Right-Wing Nationalist Coalition ie. NOT Socialist.

What eight years of right-wing rule will mean for foreigners in Norway

 

[Unkotare]

What we need to do is have a new new deal instead of going the other direction that only gets worse for us.

The New Deal was a bad deal. We don't need a new one.

 

[Unkotare]

......
Canada is a melting pot country .....

America is a bigger melting pot.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

...Norway ranked the No. 1...

Yeah... it's easy... when you've been hunkered down under the American Shield throughout the Cold War and leaning on them for any serious national defense.

Really amazing, how much you can do, when you're not forced to sink tons of money into your own Defense, even in the face of Aggressive Communism during the Cold War.

There is no need for Norway to waste money on defence in 2017 considering nobody is going to invade Norway.