Social Mobility Index

[chuckChuck]

According to some on on Agriville, America is only the greatest when Trump and the Republicans are in the Whitehouse. Once the Democrats hold more of the levers of power I am sure it will not be the utopia you are dreaming of!

[burnt]

by chance , any ties to the UN?

Well you just had to go and raise that nasty little question, didn't you.

Spoiled a perfectly orchestrated narrative with stubborn fact....

[chuckChuck]

Some of the best ranked places to live in the world are also the most prosperous, but the prosperity is shared more equally. Switzerland, Norway come to mind.

US politics is very relative to an agriculture forum because US trade and agriculture policy directly affects Canadian farmers.

Trump and the Republicans have decided that protectionism is better that free trade and they don't care if Canadian farmers are hurt.

Trumps request for Meng Wanzhou's arrest in Canada put Canada between a rock and a hard place. She and Canada are just pawns in Trump's trade war with China. And farmers are just collateral damage.

The Canada haters here on Agriville are mostly a bunch of hyper partisan extremists who will never be happy no matter whether they live in the US or Canada.

Fortunately the CPC has no room for such negative extremist nonsense.

[sumdumguy]

Just as families who don’t get along are self-destroying, Canada is doing same. The East hates the West and the West is supposed to accept their fate with a smile on their faces. What a mockery this great nation has become!

[chuckChuck]

Western leaders often like to play up the east west divide for political gain. They have been doing it for decades.

Its especially easy to do when commodity prices fall and the resource and ag sector falls on harder times. It must be a politicians fault! Even though oil prices started to fall while Harper was in power.

Ontario and Quebec Conservatives have similar views to western Conservatives.

As Doug Ford said "it is just politics"

[jazz]

Lets deconstruct that index.

Heath, all the medical breakthroughs and research are discovered and pioneered in the US.

Education, best universities and tech schools on the planet all in the US

Technology, every high tech company worth talking about domiciled in US

Work, US unemployment half of any other country on that list. GDP a full point above all of them too.

Protection, well US military wins that hands down.

Institutions, after seeing the dictatorship at work here in Canada and the EU and China, is there any system on the planet better than the US? Not a chance. Power distributed right to the local level. Congress checks the president, state level election of reps, local circuit courts can over turn presidential legislation, the reviews and scrutiny and checks on power are stunning.

Norway? Switzerland? Give me a fing break.

[Guest]

Western leaders often like to play up the east west divide for political gain. They have been doing it for decades.

Its especially easy to do when commodity prices fall and the resource and ag sector falls on harder times. It must be a politicians fault! Even though oil prices started to fall while Harper was in power.

Ontario and Quebec Conservatives have similar views to western Conservatives.

As Doug Ford said "it is just politics"

But , but ... no wonder quebec is pissed off
Alberta has been collecting stabilization everyyear since inception
You really cant make the connection????

[Guest]

Lets deconstruct that index.

Heath, all the medical breakthroughs and research are discovered and pioneered in the US.

Education, best universities and tech schools on the planet all in the US

Technology, every high tech company worth talking about domiciled in US

Work, US unemployment half of any other country on that list. GDP a full point above all of them too.

Protection, well US military wins that hands down.

Institutions, after seeing the dictatorship at work here in Canada and the EU and China, is there any system on the planet better than the US? Not a chance. Power distributed right to the local level. Congress checks the president, state level election of reps, local circuit courts can over turn presidential legislation, the reviews and scrutiny and checks on power are stunning.

Norway? Switzerland? Give me a fing break.

But you are forgetting about greta
Switzerland produced that wonder

[chuckChuck]

According to the World Bank and the OECD both Switzerland and Norway have much higher per capita GDP than the US by about $20,000 USD each.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=NO-NZ-CA-US-DE-CH-JP https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=NO-NZ-CA-US-DE-CH-JP

[chuckChuck]

Greta is from Sweden. Gore is from the US. Whats your point?