Whine & Cheese

Straggler, that goes to show how irrational you really are. If you can't look around the planet's nations and cultures and see that the US is the most industrious, prosperous, free, productive, benevolent, and powerful nation of them all, you've got your head up your down in the sand.

How many people in Norway had to declare bankruptcy due to medical expenses?

Human Development Index (HDI)1 steady Norway 0.943 increase 0.002
2 steady Australia 0.929 increase 0.002
3 steady Netherlands 0.910 increase 0.001
4 steady United States 0.910 increase 0.002
5 steady New Zealand 0.908 steady Ranking: 1
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Uruguay 1) The Kingdom Of Norway
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4) The Swiss Confederation Um ??? by what standards? By military power sure but most other countries dont let 50 million of their citizens go without healthcare just so their military budget is higher then the REST OF THE WORLD combined.

Good grief Buz - Can you not even see when you are being parodied? Is that your criteria too Buz? As for the rest of your post: (**Straggler nods sadly and sagely**)Yep. That is the point.

You're not my type. And come between you and Rrhain? I'll see your squat press and raise you a kickboxing bout. Come back.......

Buz you cheered these comments....... I know that dark Oni is a parody. The question is - Are you?

Yeah, but I'm talking factual stuff. Not nonsense from who knows what website. The Daily Show and every god damn writer on that staff...bunch of elitist if you ask me. All the writers on Colbert's show, South Park, basically everything on TV is liberal. Their answer would be emotional rather than logical, so I wouldn't consider it.But if you ask the one's we liberated they'll say we're not bullies. I highly doubt that. You tell any country you're American, they see dollar signs! You'll be treated with respect in most any place. Not the middle east of course, or at least not in all of the middle east, but it'll take 2 years to change that opinion if we vote the right way come November. You're making stuff up now. This is conspiracy nonsense.We invade when they're a threat to the US and our way of life. Because it's the right way to think. She acts in front of the camera, stop being a hater, she's an artist. That's not true. Um, your math is screwy. The Giants beat the shit out of the Packers, thus they beat the 15 teams the Packers beat during the regular season. They shouldn't be there anyway so they're actually winning.- Oni

Not all is well in Norway

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Norway dropped from mostly free to moderately free in the 2012 Index, primarily because of expansive public spending. The government has focused on containing expensive welfare programs, but government spending as a percentage of GDP rose sharply.

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Admittedly, that's where the present regime is taking/has taken the US of A.You can cite exceptions relative to some aspects of my message. By and large, the US of A is and has been the most productive, free, prosperous and benevolent. Edited by Buzsaw, : Jar quote

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benevolent.

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I'd say that you might be able to back up the others with reasonable evidence, benevolence though? Really?

Buz your link is one about economic freedom rather than freedom period.Do you think they are one and the same thing?

Did you notice that, even using the particular ranking chosen by the website you just linked to, this isn't true? The USA is ranked 10th, behind Mauritius, Canada, New Zealand and Chile, and only the barest fraction ahead of Denmark.Edited by caffeine, : punctuation

Looking more closely at your link - Hong Kong (part of China) is listed as the freest place in the world.

Maybe the fact they are on a comedy channel will shed some light on this.

Gee, You never actually responded to Jar's comment. Instead you posted a link from a right wing propaganda outfit that doesn't even address the question.Of course no one is surprised.

Just repeating unsupported assertions and trying to palm the pea instead of answering the question won't help your cause Buz.How many people in Norway had to declare bankruptcy due to medical expenses?How many people in Cuba had to declare bankruptcy due to medical expenses?How many people in Japan had to declare bankruptcy due to medical expenses?How many people in England had to declare bankruptcy due to medical expenses?How many people in Germany had to declare bankruptcy due to medical expenses?How many people in Canada had to declare bankruptcy due to medical expenses?