@ Phules
Maybe yours are, mine are not.
Dont discredit my numbers just because you dont know how to argue against them.
Prove my numbers wrong instead of writing such a pointless load of crap.
If you don't know how to get reliable numbers, don't blame me for it.
The income in equality in the USA reached new heights. Its now as big as it was during the great depression. You should pick up a book and read how that ended. Its not my fault that you dont understand the gravity of this fact.
http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/pikettyqje.pdfand SNAP (food stamps)
How is it possible that the richest country on earth even needs foodstamps?
Oh wait, could be related to distribution of wealth.
I'm fairly sure that Luxembourg doesn't get hundreds of thousands or even millions of (destitute and illiterate...) immigrants every year. And if they did, their hospitals would get overburdened, and the mortality rates would rocket sky high. Not to mention the unemployment.
Are you even aware of the bullshit you are writing? Didnt I give you the example of Cuba having better child and infant mortality rates than the USA?
USA GDP (2013): 52.840$
Cuba GDP (2010): 10.200$
How is that possible, the USA has a five times higher GDP than Cuba, how come they have higher infant mortality rates?
Oh wait, could be related to distribution of wealth.
Which brings me to another topic: It's not a very fair comparison. Does the E.U. have all that much immigration? I'd even venture to say it's kind of xenophobic, even.
I am not here to defend the EU. The US pressure and influence reaches deep into the EU. And the things they are responsible for are equally bad. We have a democracy deficit in the EU as much as you have a democracy deficit in the USA.
EU immigration policy is despicable and shameful for the wealthiest Economic Union worldwide, but its a completely different topic.
@Genghis
Too much of your fuzzy logic for me to address.
Edited 1/11/2015 18:41:34