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If you think it’s bad here, don’t try Switzerland
The Times Online ^ | 25 March 08 | Michael Evans

Posted on 03/24/2008 5:27:26 PM PDT by SkyPilot

The United Kingdom has been ranked as one of the most stable and prosperous countries in the world, beating the United States, France and even Switzerland in a global assessment of every nation’s achievements and standards.

A one-year investigation and analysis of 235 countries and dependent territories has put the UK joint seventh in the premier league of nations. The top ten comprise also the Vatican, Sweden, Luxembourg, Monaco, Gibraltar, San Marino, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and the Irish Republic.

The US lies 22nd and Switzerland, normally associated with wealth and untouchable stability, is rated 17th, losing points in the assessment of its social achievements.

The bottom ten, surprisingly, do not include Iraq. They are listed as Gaza and the West Bank, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: qualityoflife; stablecountries; unitedstates
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To: white trash redneck
"...To him it's a bug. To us it's a feature..."


21 posted on 03/24/2008 6:18:37 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: Levante

How many of them have our wealth?
NONE. Just another american hating leftist rant.


22 posted on 03/24/2008 6:22:33 PM PDT by genghis
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To: SkyPilot

Things are very stable under sharia law. Heh!


23 posted on 03/24/2008 6:31:29 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

It’s virtually impossible to get citizenship in San Marino or Manaco.


24 posted on 03/24/2008 6:57:10 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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