country quiz

[dmlfarmer]

Here is a quiz for you. Here is a comparison of 4 countries. Name the countries:
A______________
B______________
C______________
D______________

Criteria A B C D
Poverty rate 10% 9.4% 15% 19.7%
Life expectancy 82.92 82.96 79.11 79.39
Infant mortality 2.5 4.5 5.8 12.2
Murder rate 0.5 1.68 5.35 56.33
Incarcerations 6 107 655 178
GDP/person($US) 75,500 48,100 59,500 12,400
personal tax rate(single)27.3 23 24
Ave Minimum wage($US)none. 10.54/hour7.25/hour 1.93/month
Home ownership 83% 66% 65%
Ave university tuition 0 4939 8202 0
Free health care Yes Yes No yes
World happiness ranking5 11 18 99

Based on these criteria which country would you prefer to live in?

[ColevilleH2S]

I'll play:

A. Japan or maybe Switzerland
B. Canada
C. USA
D. South Africa

[AlbertaFarmer5]

We could probably simplify this quiz quite a lot.
Just consider the biases of the poster, And the agenda will reveal the answers quite easily.

[sumdumguy]

Not falling for dml agenda today. 🙈

[dmlfarmer]

We could probably simplify this quiz quite a lot.
Just consider the biases of the poster, And the agenda will reveal the answers quite easily.

well if it is so easy, what are the countries?

[dmlfarmer]

Not falling for dml agenda today. 🙈

and what agenda is that?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

well if it is so easy, what are the countries?

You are missing one data point.

But based on your agenda, one will be a war torn thrid world banana Republic, one will be the US in an attempt to portray them as worse, one will be a socialist northern European utopia, haven't looked close enough to know what the fourth would be. You and Chuck don't seem to notice that we live in Canada, so probably not Canada.

[blackpowder]

Nailed it

[blackpowder]

5 Netherlands
11 Australia
18 Belgium
99 Ivory Coast.
Your point???????

[dmlfarmer]

For those of you wondering about the answer to the country quiz and especially for AF5 who claims to know my motives and the easy answer, he is wrong. Canada is included and is B.

The reason I posted this is because there are a number of people who regularly post what a s******e Canada is so I wondered if the facts back up these claims. So I choose some economic and social indicators for which there is readily available data for all countries to make a comparison. And I chose 3 other energy rich countries that are often referenced on this site: Norway, USA, and Venezuela. So the answer is: A Norway, B Canada, C USA, D Venezuela.

Is all socialism bad? Well Norway as a social democracy fares very well. Venezuela on the other hand has done very bad. Is unfettered capitalism all it is cracked up to be? Well the US has the highest average Income/GDP in the world yet more people in poverty than Canada, the highest number of people incarcerated per 100,000 than any other country, and a average tax rate higher than even Canada yet provides much less social opportunities like free health care.

It is easy to criticize, it is much harder to back up your claims with facts. Instead people act like Sumdumguy and claim they know my agenda. Well, hat was your agenda in posting an meaningless attack line on me sumdumguy instead of providing any words of value to this thread?

[farmaholic]

Healthcare and social programs.....

Maybe that is why so many "refugees" want to come to Canada.

Can you imagine what that windfall alone must feel like for them.

Just show up....

[dmlfarmer]

Healthcare and social programs.....

Maybe that is why so many "refugees" want to come to Canada.

Can you imagine what that windfall alone must feel like for them.

Just show up....

If it is all social programs, why does the US need to put up a wall to keep "refugees" out given they have less social programs than most first world democratic nations?

[farmaholic]

If it is all social programs, why does the US need to put up a wall to keep "refugees" out given they have less social programs than most first world democratic nations?

There "might" be more opportunity, security and wealth.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

If it is all social programs, why does the US need to put up a wall to keep "refugees" out given they have less social programs than most first world democratic nations?

Well, obviously, it is to keep the American citizens in, so they don't all escape to some Socialist utopia in central or south America. If it is as bad as you guys make it out to be, and Trump is so terrible, they must be trying to escape by the millions.

[dmlfarmer]

There "might" be more opportunity, security and wealth.

And I bet there is more opportunity, security and wealth in Canada too for those "refugees" than where they are trying to escape from.