Global Competitiveness

[Arkady]

Interesting rankings:

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/CSI/2012-13/GCR_Chapter1.1_2012-13.pdf

All the most competitive economies have more socialized medicine than us, and a couple are very liberal Scandinavian countries.

 

[worldlymrb]

Interesting rankings:

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/CSI/2012-13/GCR_Chapter1.1_2012-13.pdf

All the most competitive economies have more socialized medicine than us, and a couple are very liberal Scandinavian countries.

Socialism in a non-multicultural/sparsely populated/resource dense country, without a military industrial complex empire or a hyper corrupt govt, will always be more productive than a country with all of the above.

And yes, the Scandinavian socialist healthcare system is a hundred times more efficient than fascist ObamaCare.

 

[NightSwimmer]

It wouldn't require much effort to construct a software application capable of exactly replicating the responses of every right-wing poster on this site.

I often wonder how many actual humans post here.

 

[as seen on tv]

how can anyone claim - with a straight face - that "more competitive" economies also feature lower average household incomes, lower college attendance rates and lower home and auto ownership?

 

[worldlymrb]

The title of the report: Strengthening The Recovery by Raising Productivity

At least the title of the report is on the right track.

Since Production x Savings = Wealth... then increasing production is a vital component in any recovery. However, providing socialized medicine would do little to nothing in that endeavor as America led the world in productivity for over a century w/o ever having socialized health care.

What crushes productivity is govt regulation which increases the costs, and higher taxes which takes away needed capital for investments/expansions.

Unfortunately, AmericAA- is burdened with a large collective of govt cultist who believe a bankrupt govt spending other people's money is more productive/efficient/honest than the private sector who MUST deliver the goods to the consumer and balance their books..

 

[Arkady]

It wouldn't require much effort to construct a software application capable of exactly replicating the responses of every right-wing poster on this site.

I often wonder how many actual humans post here.

I've wondered that, too. Some would be easier to mimic than others. Drummy could be replicated with something that only took a few minutes to code, since you wouldn't need something that could mimic a recognition of what the post it was responding to was about, much less something that could create sentences that held together as ideas. Regardless of what the initial post was about Drummybot could just string together a few unrelated clauses suggesting Democrats are the real racists, with plenty of ellipses filling in the spaces between the clauses.

 

[Arkady]

how can anyone claim - with a straight face - that "more competitive" economies also feature lower average household incomes, lower college attendance rates and lower home and auto ownership?

Why would any of those things make an economy less competitive?

 

[Corruptbuddha]

A nation like the US is #7 out of 144? Even with the current systems in place?

Pretty damned good.