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WE'RE #1, WE'RE #1. Where America is on Top Compared to the World's Richest Countries.
Business Insider ^ | 05/01/2011 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 05/01/2011 9:36:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Wikimedia CommonsIs America the exceptional, #1 country in the world?

Of course it is!

David Morris of the Institute For Local Self-Reliance has published the truth about American exceptionalism.

It turns out, the US is #1 in all sorts of ways.


Click this link to see in which categories America is ranked number 1.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: numberone

1 posted on 05/01/2011 9:36:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Dont worry Marxists...your holy messiah is doing a bang up job of making America the 3rd world country we deserve.(mega-sarc)


2 posted on 05/01/2011 9:41:24 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: SeekAndFind

Where’s the obese poor children chart?


3 posted on 05/01/2011 9:41:31 AM PDT by fella
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To: SeekAndFind

Where’s the Barf Alert?


4 posted on 05/01/2011 9:43:26 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
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To: SeekAndFind
Excellent find!

Finally a great depiction to show why almost ALL of us who reside here are desperately trying to get the hell out to a decent place like Canada or Mexico!

5 posted on 05/01/2011 10:01:45 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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I don’t know......there’s just something about those charts that don’t quite tell the truth.....


6 posted on 05/01/2011 10:08:17 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m curious to know how these comparisons look without factoring in our mega-rich.

And regarding the health care - are the other countries paying for whoever can make it across their border? Same question with prisons - what if we deleted the illegals from the prison stats?

This does support the US no longer defending these countries since we’re obviously carrying almost all of that burden.

Also the charts are selective - all the same countries aren’t represented in every chart - have to imagine that the instigator didn’t like some of the stats so simply left out countries that surpassed us.

Still - I have to agree with Trump - we look stupid.


7 posted on 05/01/2011 10:10:39 AM PDT by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: WVNan

Well for one, the stats are not supportive of exceptionalism - except in areas that are of no value to citizens generally ( except those who want everyone to be EQUAL in most respects. i.e., you cannot be very rich because most Americans are not).


8 posted on 05/01/2011 10:12:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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And guess what? Among people of Swedish, German, Japanese, and Danish decent in the United States, all of the social statistics are in line or better.

When the protected classes are taken out of the statistics, U.S. medical and criminal numbers are great.

Weren’t we going to have a frank discussion about that after Obama was elected?


9 posted on 05/01/2011 10:49:00 AM PDT by SampleMan (If all of the people currently oppressed shared a common geography, bullets would already be flying.)
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10 posted on 05/01/2011 11:10:00 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Vaquero
Dont worry Marxists...your holy messiah is doing a bang up job of making America the 3rd world country we deserve.(mega-sarc)

Crime rates are skyrocketing under the O'Bambi regime. Thugs are the new norm and are protected by the Marxist _resident and his so-called "attorney general". Since January 2009, it's been open season on the producers by the looters.


11 posted on 05/01/2011 11:11:18 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They neglected to mention that we have a bigger handout crowd than any other nation.


12 posted on 05/01/2011 1:06:41 PM PDT by California VWRC Member
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To: TaxPayer2000

Well, see there ... #1 in Barf Alerts!


13 posted on 05/01/2011 7:16:57 PM PDT by dr_lew
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