How does it feel when even our poor hillbilly states are still better than you?


GDP (PPP) per capita - US states vs EU states

why is coloumbia 3 times higher than switzerland?

Probably counts politicians :/

That's the District of Columbia. Washington DC.

Edited 6/16/2016 20:07:17

@mod: If you're living in DC proper and not just the DC area, you've got to be realllllly well off. Most of the people that work in DC actually live in the Baltimore area (Maryland) or somewhere in Northern Virginia. But if you work in DC and actually live in DC, you're almost certainly really well-off. It's like Switzerland, Monaco, and Luxembourg in that you've got to already be rich in order to get to live there.

Edited 6/16/2016 20:07:37

And some Americans actually wonder why they are looked down on and mocked by Europeans...

I'm sorry. I can't hear you over the sound of our stock markets climbing steadily while the SSMI, UKX, N100, CAC40, and DAX all have negative YTD growth.

Belgium is richer than Florida. That's all I have to know.

Yuropoors*

jesus idiot

Powers of the Scottish Parliament

Devolved and reserved powers
Scotland has devolved powers within the UK system of government, as set out in the Scotland Act (2001). This means that the country is not independent but it does have control over some of its affairs through its elected parliament.

Devolved powers
The affairs over which the Scottish Parliament has control are called devolved powers, and they include:

health
education and training
local government
law, including most aspects of criminal and civil law, the prosecution system and the courts
social work
housing
tourism and economic development
some aspects of transport, including the Scottish road network, bus policy, and ports and harbours
planning and the environment
agriculture, forestry and fishing
sport and the arts
miscellaneous matters, such as compiling statistics and keeping public records


Reserved powers
The UK Parliament retains control over a whole range of national affairs. These are called reserved powers, and they include:

constitutional matters
UK defence and national security
UK foreign policy
immigration and nationality
UK economic and monetary policy (other than Scotland's tax-varying power)
energy: electricity, coal, gas and nuclear power
employment legislation
social security (the DWP - Department for Work and Pensions)
some aspects of transport, including railways, safety and regulation
regulation of certain professions such as medicine and dentistry
others, such as data protection, broadcasting, gambling and the National Lottery

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/higher/modern/uk_gov_politics/gov_sco/revision/1/

AKA UK federal vs "country"-level powers

Compare that to US federal vs. state powers:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0877699.html

And from the White House:

Under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, all powers not granted to the federal government are reserved for the states and the people.

MRW our states have more power than your English-subject colonies you've chosen to call countries. They don't even fully trust you with your own transport systems.



Edited 6/16/2016 20:34:52

To be fair, Connecticut is a strange little state.

It has some of the best schools, nicest towns, and highest GDP out of any U.S State, but also notorious for some of America's worst cities (Hartford)

>Corrects fatal grammar mistake (Europoors? wtf this even mean?)
>responded with some analysis and research
>like lel, fix your grammar before you start on this

...

btw

They don't even fully trust you

Wrong, they are scared of us

again, stupid

and fix the title

You bet he lives in Hartford

So how were your latest shootings? All great?

94 MASS shootins since 2000

Edit : Sorry it was 176 LOL

Edited 6/16/2016 21:32:07

Czech urself b4 u rek urself

made by fox news

> Plays from Turkey
> calls other countries' media biased

These all misleading figures. I always thought highly of knyte for making good forum post, but this is kinda disappointing.

Here some figures that show a very different view with a trustful source:
Rate of Gun Homicide per 100,000 People:
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compare/178/rate_of_gun_homicide/18,48,50,65,66,69,71,86,87,88,125,149,172,177,192,194

@Orange: Please leave. This is a circlejerk thread.