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If Britain were a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest, behind Alabama and before Mississippi
The Washington Post ^ | August 26, 2014 | Hunter Schwarz

Posted on 08/27/2014 3:57:21 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

If Britain were to join the United States, it would be the second-poorest state, behind Alabama and ahead of Mississippi.

The ranking, determined by Fraser Nelson, an editor of The Spectator magazine, was made by dividing the gross domestic product of each state by its population, and it took into account purchasing power parity for cost of living. Several other European countries were also included in the ranking.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: costofliving; purchasingparity; purchasingpower
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1 posted on 08/27/2014 3:57:21 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; LdSentinal; ExTexasRedhead; ...

I’ll say it again- their name should be changed to Not So Great Britain. If it weren’t for Margaret Thatcher, things there would be even worse. For all our problems, we’re doing great compared to that place. But if Democrats continue to hold power, we’ll be headed rapidly in that direction.


2 posted on 08/27/2014 3:59:24 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Clintonfatigued

And yet, the Lib Looneys want all that Socialism here. But they aren’t even pretending anymore......it is painfully obvious they want to completely destroy this once great country.


3 posted on 08/27/2014 3:59:46 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: Irish Eyes

Would this headline have any of your ancestors eyes smiling?

; )


4 posted on 08/27/2014 4:01:45 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Clintonfatigued

We are headed down the road Britain has traveled ahead of us. The Brits spend too much on welfare much of it going to people from Mohammedan countries who want to destroy the country in which they are living. The Brits are not intelligent enough to put those people on the next slow boat back to Pissantistan.

Sound familiar?


5 posted on 08/27/2014 4:06:01 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I could see England becoming a U.S. territory.

Ain’t nothing Great Britainny about the place except for the changing of the guards, Windsor, Saint Pauls and Westminster Church and Parliament....Oh and the Bloody Tower...

No wonder the French were always pissed at the English. Quite a bit of it is on display, in the Bloody Tower and I guess they want their stuff back, after so many lost bsttles...

The Palace of Westminster(House of Commons) is pretty neat, when viewed from across the Thames...

We could take them on as a Territory and let Australia administer the place...

Australians are practically American anyway...


6 posted on 08/27/2014 4:09:13 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

If my math is right, they’d be entitled to about 70 seats in House! Eek.


7 posted on 08/27/2014 4:09:37 PM PDT by Impy (Think for yourself)
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To: Clintonfatigued
What the honorable member is saying is that he would rather the poor were poorer provided the rich were less rich. That’s why you will NEVER create the wealth for better social services as we have. And what a policy! Yes, he would rather have the poor poorer, provided the rich were less rich. That is the liberal policy.

Margaret Thatcher.

The end result of this policy is a Britain that has an income that would make it one of the poorest US states.

8 posted on 08/27/2014 4:12:04 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

But if they joined now they’d have only 1 seat until 2023! It would probably end up being George Galloway, unless he’d prefer the Senate, he’d make Barbara Lee look conservative.


9 posted on 08/27/2014 4:14:48 PM PDT by Impy (Think for yourself)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Bummer. Arkansaw is not #2 any more. Britain is!

Arkansas’ real motto is “Thank god for Mississippi!”


10 posted on 08/27/2014 4:17:12 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
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11 posted on 08/27/2014 4:24:15 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Britain was a sham anyway. They are a good example of what
happens when you leave your borders open to primitive
cultures. The worst thing they did was virtually leaving
their surfs, subjects, proletariat, etc. unarmed and by law
not allowed to personally defend themselves.


12 posted on 08/27/2014 4:36:33 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: Clintonfatigued

Wyoming got number 2 ... behind Alaska.

Oh, yes ... Wyoming!


13 posted on 08/27/2014 4:50:05 PM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I’m surprised that Die Schweiz didn’t rank higher.


14 posted on 08/27/2014 5:02:04 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Vendome

And the Aussies make a much better Top Gear than we do. That would make them good administrators right there.


15 posted on 08/27/2014 5:08:05 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
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To: Slambat
Britain was a sham anyway. They are a good example of what happens when you leave your borders open to primitive cultures.

"Primitive cultures" represent perhaps 10% of the British population. Excluding mixed race individuals (who may or may not identify as white), Britain's population is 87% white, compared to the US population, which is only 72% white.

Britain ought to have a lower GDP per capita compared to the US simply because we have vastly greater amounts of natural resources per capita than the British Isles. Apart from Luxembourg, which is a tax haven with no industry to speak of, Norway is the EU's highest GDP per capita nation because it has significant amounts of oil and a small population.

What impresses about Britain is that despite the vast resource gap, the difference between American and British output per capita isn't all that large. For an example of the kind of gap that can exist between two countries with vastly different natural resource endowments, look at Saudi Arabia ($24K) and Yemen $1.4K) - one has abundant oil whereas the other has very little, and neither has significant modern non-oil related industries.

16 posted on 08/27/2014 5:16:25 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Slambat

Note also that the US white number (72%) includes Hispanics, many of whom are pure-blooded Aztecs, Mayans and so on from Central and South America.


17 posted on 08/27/2014 5:18:37 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: wally_bert

I like their accent much better than Brits too...


18 posted on 08/27/2014 5:21:47 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: originalbuckeye

Obama even publicly announced that he wants to “remake America” and to remake America, he must first unmake America.


19 posted on 08/27/2014 6:26:36 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Zhang Fei

The full blooded aztec etc are counted as other non white hispanic.


20 posted on 08/27/2014 7:27:16 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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