Eye-opening. Mississippi,the poorest state in the US, with the lowest GDP per capita, is richer than Italy, Spain and France.
Are you entertained?
pic.twitter.com/txWrBgTuyB— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) September 20, 2025
Posted on 09/23/2025 9:19:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I saw this a couple of days ago, and it was so intriguing, I had to hang on to it, figuring there would be a time it would come in handy.
Little did I know our president would go into the United Nations General Assembly today with a flamethrower and give me the perfect opportunity to illustrate one of the scorched remnants of European superiority he left smoking on the expensive carpet in that room.
When the man told them that their countries were going to fail.
IF YOU DON'T GET AWAY FROM THE GREEN ENERGY SCAM,
YOUR COUNTRY IS GOING TO FAIL
IF YOU DON'T STOP PEOPLE THAT YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, THAT YOU HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH,
YOUR COUNTRY IS GOING TO FAIL
President Trump to Europe: "If you don't get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail. If you don't stop people that you've never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail... You are destroying your heritage." pic.twitter.com/6sBvSy0lMy— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 23, 2025
They are failing already. Circling the drain.
This was one of the wildest economic charts I've ever seen.
The tiny little state of Mississippi, long a butt of snide Northern jokes alongside sister state Alabama, has been clawing its way out of poverty and ignorance one child and job at a time.
They're calling the education system turnaround the 'Mississippi Miracle.'
In a surprising turnaround, Mississippi, once ranked near the bottom of U.S. education standings, has dramatically improved its student literacy rates.
As of 2023, the state ranks among the top 20 for fourth grade reading, a significant leap from its 49th-place ranking in 2013. This transformation was driven by evidence-based policy reforms focused on early literacy and teacher development.
The rest of the country might want to take note.
That’s because Mississippi’s success offers a proven solution to the reading literacy crisis facing many states – a clear road map for closing early literacy gaps and improving reading outcomes nationwide.
The economically disadvantaged children of the state are excelling and proving that poverty and ethnicity have no bearing on learning when the educational emphasis is on quality.
Mississippi’s public schools delivered good news last month. The results of the bi-annual national assessment dubbed The Nation’s Report Card are in, and Mississippi’s public school teachers and students excelled. Among their notable achievements are:
- 1st in the nation for academic growth in grade 4 reading and math since 2011
- 9th in the nation in grade 4 reading
- 16th in the nation in grade 4 math
- 1st in the nation in reading and second in math – Mississippi’s Hispanic 4th-graders compared to their Hispanic peers in all other states
- 1st in the nation in reading and second in math – Mississippi’s economically disadvantaged 4th graders compared to their economically disadvantaged peers in all other states
- 3rd in the nation in reading and math – Mississippi’s African American 4th-graders compared to their African American peers in all other states
Better-educated children feel they have a future, and that's what Mississippi will need to pull itself out of the economic malaise that's kept it wallowing at the bottom of the country's fiscal ladder.
They can do it, but we all know the hard work and perseverance it will take.
Last year, Mississippi's economic growth ranked second nationally, with a terrific 4.2% increase, and it notched the fourth-best gains in personal income nationally.
They are on the right track.
To the point Trump made today about Europeans squandering their once tremendous economies to chase climate cult fever dreams and woke policies?
Mississippi's per capita GDP (divides a country's total economic output by its population to show the average economic output per person) beats that of Italy, Spain, and France.
Eye-opening. Mississippi,the poorest state in the US, with the lowest GDP per capita, is richer than Italy, Spain and France.
Are you entertained?
pic.twitter.com/txWrBgTuyB— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) September 20, 2025
What have they done to themselves?
THE UNITED KINGDOM TODAY IS, ON AVERAGE PER PERSON, 40% POORER THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES
“Eye-opening. Mississippi,the poorest state in the US, with the lowest GDP per capita, is richer than Italy, Spain and France.”
Most of the UK is there as well.
We the EU says that they are going to “rebuild” Ukraine, they are lying. They don’t even have the money to “rebuild”… pic.twitter.com/q2ivhF0gNE— Douglas Ritz (@douglasritz) September 20, 2025
...The poorest state in the United States today is Mississippi. If the United Kingdom were a member of the United States, they would be poorer than Mississippi. And the poorer states in the US have the benefit of actually growing at a pretty decent clip - 2,3,4% per year. Compared to 1% for the UK...
What did Trump warn about energy and failure?
What is the UK in the process of doing? Preparing for failure.
‘Companies will be lost’ as energy fees double for metal industry
Businesses in defence, automotive, aerospace and construction supply chains made uncompetitive by rocketing standing charges and levies
Manufacturing and engineering firms are warning the government that it has “crossed the line” by signing off a series of painful increases in their power bills to pay for upgrades to Britain’s creaking energy infrastructure and for a subsidy system that only protects a few large firms.
The charges start rising from October 1 and by next April companies that use electricity to power their processes will see their standing charge and additional levies roughly double, brokers say.
For a firm spending £300,000 a year on electricity, the standing charges will rise from £32,000 to £64,000. As a result, the so-called non-commodity charges will form 60 to 65 per cent of a company’s total energy bills, incurred irrespective of the amount of electricity consumed, brokers added.
The government-approved charges are to help meet the cost of running the National Grid transmission system, planned upgrades, and also net zero-related schemes. From November a new charge is also to be levied on all businesses to help pay for the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear plant.
The higher energy bills appear to run counter to government claims in its industrial strategy in June to be reducing the burden of green levies to slow the de-industrialisation of Britain’s economy.
“We have these shockwaves coming into the system that people don’t expect. We will end up getting to net zero by having no industry. We will lose companies over this, without a doubt. They cannot afford this increase," warned the president of the Confederation of British Metalforming, as the government signs off a series of painful increases in their power bills to pay for upgrades to Britain’s creaking energy infrastructure and for a subsidy system that only protects a few large firms.
pic.twitter.com/tveAKBDhvi— Net Zero Watch (@NetZeroWatch) September 23, 2025
...We will lose companies over this, without a doubt. They cannot afford this increase," warned the president of the Confederation of British Metalforming, as the government signs off a series of painful increases in their power bills to pay for upgrades to Britain’s creaking energy infrastructure and for a subsidy system that only protects a few large firms.
On the march, Mississippi will catch a faltering Germany - once the industrial juggernaut of the continent, but now known as the Sick Man of Europe - within two years.
Perhaps less.
Mississippi will catch Germany within two years unless there is a major shift ...
pic.twitter.com/y07ZyIPmYh— Erebus (@hyperionca) September 20, 2025
Trump was right about their countries failing, but sometimes I think maybe we don't understand the European mindset. It's most assuredly different than ours.
All you have to do is watch almost any one of them lurch from bad decision to doubling down on something obviously worse. Or manipulate the will of the people for their own opposite ends - firewalls, and election candidates' wheeling dealings, etc - and you realize:
FAILURE IS AN OPTION
In the United States, even our 'poor' states don't have to stay that way when the right people get elected or take over the schools and get down to the business of success for everyone.
Rising tides are wonderful things, and I'll wave especially happily as Mississippi sails on past those smug ass Germans.
Happy to say, 'Trump was right again, you know.'
I know it'll sting.
Almost 40% black, our blackest state, yet the media never mentions those bragging rights for this diverse state.
Proud of Mississippi. But not at all surprised. People looked at us like we were weird when we sent our children to college at Mississippi State. We were from California and had never been to Mississippi before. But I could tell when we checked out the campus and the state in general, that people had underestimated Mississippi. It seemed to me like Mississippi was lifting itself up by its own boot straps. It wasn’t looking for pity because it was last. It was moving toward prosperity. And Mississippi State was helping with that. There were programs addressing improving housing in the Delta, nutrition and crop production improvements, technology advances, etc. There were connections to international educational undertakings in Africa and South America, and efforts to bring students from around the world to Mississippi.
Sorry to ramble on.
Hail State!
Can someone crunch the numbers on our debt load vs GNP relative to their debt load vs GNP, and run it forward to the time and likelihood of recovering, assuming both countries get freeloading immigration under control? And that’s a big assumption...
I blame the politicians but I also blame the willfully ignorant fools who don’t even bother to inform themselves or take 5 minutes to figure out what’s been going on. They blindly “trust the science” and fall further down the hole. They’ve done it to themselves.
As much as we dump on California and their insane liberal policies, driving people and businesses from the state, compared to most countries in the world, California is remarkably more efficient economically than places like Canada.
With roughly the same population, California’s GDP is twice what Canada’s is.
3 states have higher GDP’s than Canada, California, NY and Texas.
I agree with your sentiment completely.
The left was allowed to take over educational institutions all over the world. Their disciples then corrupted science with their ends justifies the means philosophy. This began several decades ago but didn’t get into full swing until the last 20 years or so.
So now we have a new green religion where many of the adherents know that their BS is based on something other than truth, observation, and reason. The world is likely already entering a new cyclic cooling phase. But most of us won’t find out about it until we are a couple of decades into it. These days “trust the science” is getting to be a bad joke.
‘Mississippi Miracle’
I suspect what is happening in Mississippi is not miraculous but the result of applied common sense and hard work.
Miracle is a word the left uses when it is trying to explain away something that goes against its preaching.
Other examples include the Ecomonic Miracle or the recovery of West Germany after the Second World War (as compared to the East); and the Miracle of Warsaw or the defence of Poland against the Soviet invasion of 1920s.
At the same time, France and Italy have been importing muslims who are not productive people. Not sure if Spain has been doing the same.
Imagine when islam has taken over most of Europe. GDP will tank due to the slothful ways of islam. Trees will be cut down and not replanted. Goats will eat everything green within their reach. Agriculture will drop to nearly nothing.
Europe will look like Afghanistan.
Amen. I remember even 20+ years ago when I worked at Wally’s HQ in Arkansas that Arkansas had a GDP per capita that was on par with Germany.
Yes. Arkansas.
Arkansas is richer than Germany per capita now.
Result of deliberate policy by European leaders which results in rigid labor markets to energy restrictions to trade barriers to burdensome regulations on tech companies.
Why Europeans Have Less
It's no coincidence why Europeans don't have air conditioning, clothes dryers, or ice.
For roughly two decades, Western Europe, home to the continent's largest economies, has stagnated. In 1995, its labor productivity—the value of goods and services produced per hour worked—was 95 percent of what it was in the United States, having risen from just 22 percent in 1945. By 2023, it was down to 80 percent. Ten years ago, 52 of the world's top 100 companies by market capitalization were American and 28 were European. Since then, the American total has grown to 58 while the European count has fallen to 18.
https://reason.com/2025/08/25/why-europeans-have-less/
I doubt Greenland is higher gdp than Miss.
“The tiny little state of Mississippi, long a butt of snide Northern jokes alongside sister state Alabama, has been clawing its way out of poverty and ignorance one child and job at a time.”
Absolutely. As the Democrats MILITARIZED the unions against corporate America, manufacturing looked for friendlier places and found the South much friendlier, and at least the northern parts of Mississippi and Alabama are really nice areas with lots of manufacturing.
Interesting, Putin has been telling Europe EXACTLY the same things as Trump: Basically it’s time to GROW UP regarding energy, the ‘climate’, and immigration.
So, with Europe’s two BIGGEST ENEMIES telling them what they need to do, is it any surprise that Europe is doing the opposite?
I doubt Greenland is higher gdp than Miss.
Arkansas has the most billionaires in America per capita: The Walton(s), Stephens, Tyson, Riceland, Terry Fleming, et al.
Arkansas produces 2/3 of the nations rice, 1/3 of its soybeans, 10% of soft pine timber, 30% of chicken, etc. We also have the best quality coal, a great nuclear power plant, hydro, etc.
Arkansas, on its own, could feed, water, and energize its own population as well as the abundance of water.....could export everything.
BTW its FULL, FULL, FULL of ticks, copperheads, cotton mouths, chiggers, wiggers, hood rats (Pine Bluff, W. Memphis, W. Helena, Little Rock), red necks, dixie mafia, cartels, dope dealers (lots of illegal pot farms), home of Bill Kringtong and Kankels Hillary, etc.
WE ARE FULL!
LOL, maybe Putin shouldn't lecture Europe about economic matters and instead stop spending all government funds on the military instead of improving the lives of ordinary Russians.
GDP per capita for Arkansas vs. Russia (2024)
Arkansas: Approximately $60,276
Russia: Approximately $11,043
Bkmk
Arkansas, on its own, could feed, water, and energize its own population as well as the abundance of water.....could export everything.
BTW its FULL, FULL, FULL of ticks, copperheads, cotton mouths, chiggers, wiggers, hood rats (Pine Bluff, W. Memphis, W. Helena, Little Rock), red necks, dixie mafia, cartels, dope dealers (lots of illegal pot farms), home of Bill Kringtong and Kankels Hillary, etc.
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Spent about a year and a half stationed at Little Rock AFB back in the mid-seventies. I found Arkansas to mostly be an enjoyable and easy place to live in. I also found most of what you list above, except for the hood rats and some of the criminal element. Showed the kid next door the copperheads and cottonmouhths and she should stay away from them. Nice kid, great parents.
The base, however, was run by a bunch of alcoholics and incenstuous idjits. Got out of there as fast as I could.
“GDP per capita for Arkansas vs. Russia (2024)”
Then ask anyone who’s been to both to compare Little Rock to Moscow and then get back to us.
But I understand your posting as most Westerners simply DO NOT understand the weakness in Nominal GNP numbers...which then explains the above.
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