| >Many people are just completely excluded from the 'official' unemployment statistics. Every country reports unemployment similarly. The system we use has classes, so yes you can look at both U3 and U6 and the still the US comes out on top, if compared to the same class. The US's high employment rate is unquestionable, as much as you hate it and wish it to be worse. >. Mean GDP per capita is fairly high BUT median, which is a much more important metric Real Median Household Income is almost excactly the GDP per capita in the USA. https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MEHOINUSA672N https://www.google.com/search?q=gdp+per+capita+usa&ie=utf-8&... >Greece and Spain are far from 'feel good socialism' They absolutely are. Their programs are unaffordable, especially in Greece's case. The government is the biggest employer there and literally writes checks it cannot back because its bullied by the unions and leftist electorate to do so. Eventually you need to pay your bills and the Greeks simply cannot. > Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, where quality of life and happiness is regularly rated as higher than the US. Because people are naturally racists and in ethnocentrist cultures people are happy. White loves white. Why is that a plus to you? Melting pot life will always have more strife. Also those countires are a fraction of the size of the USA. Denmark is a mere 5m people, about half of the Chicago metropolitan area. Compared that to a 330m juggernaut is silly. Sweden is about the population of the Chicago metropolitan area. Germany has a multi-payer health care system just like the US does, its much more to the right than the other countries you mentioned. >Yeah, that worked out magnificently in 2008. Every country has economic issues that come and go. The US has been the lead performer since WWII. We're seeing the destruction of Greece right now with no real way out. There's very different than the once in 30 years recession almost all economies suffer from. Your precious Germany had some bad dealings both political and economically in the 30s and 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. I guess we arent allowed to talk about that ,but anything in the US's history is fair game, eh? |
> I guess we arent allowed to talk about that
Acerbic asides like these degrade the discussions here and typically provoke much worse from others, as happened in this case. Please eliminate nastiness from what you post here, regardless of how right and wrong you or someone else's views may be.