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    If Britain were a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest, behind Alabama and before Missis

    If Britain were to join the United States, it would be the second-poorest state, behind Alabama and ahead of Mississippi.

    The ranking, determined by Fraser Nelson, an editor of The Spectator magazine, was made by dividing the gross domestic product of each state by its population, and it took into account purchasing power parity for cost of living. Several other European countries were also included in the ranking. Ranking by GDP per capita instead of just GDP means that states with mega-economies such as California, which has the top GDP in the United States (its GDP is also larger than most countries’), was knocked down to 14th place among the states when divided by its more than 38 million residents. Alaska comes in first, with a GDP of more than $59 billion divided by a population of 735,000.

    Norway was the top European country on the list, between Massachusetts and New Jersey. Nelson wrote that the United Kingdom’s low ranking showed Britain had “no reason to feel smug” about recent events in Ferguson, Mo.:

    “The United States may be a great place to be rich, we like to think, but they treat their deprived appallingly over there. We tend to watch reports from poorer American states with a shudder, thankful that our country is run along different, more compassionate lines.

    But if Britain were to somehow leave the European union and become the 51st state of America, we would actually be one of the poor states. If you take our economic output, adjust for living costs and slot it into the US league table then the United Kingdom emerges as the second-poorest state in the union. We’re poorer than much-maligned Kansas and Alabama and well below Missouri, the scene of all the unrest in recent weeks. Only Mississippi has lower economic output per head than the UK; strip out the South East and Britain would rank bottom. We certainly have our problems; we’re just better at concealing them.”

    Nelson argues that income inequality and racial tension in the United States are more visible because of factors such as “white flight,” which Britain doesn’t have space for, and Americans’ tendency to publicly discuss these issues.

    “No one beats up America better than Americans,” he wrote. “They openly debate their inequality, conduct rigorous studies about it, argue about economics vs. culture as causes…. And the debate is so fierce that the rest of the world looks on, and joins in lamenting America’s problems. A shame: we’d do better to get a little angrier at our own.”
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    If it were a state , nobody from Alabama or Mississippi would move there .

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    The whole world sucks yet continues to rag on the United States.

    What else is new?
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    The Queen and the rest of her family appear to be doing well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin Truth View Post
    The Queen and the rest of her family appear to be doing well.
    As do our rulers, which is typical of societies in servitude to royalty.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikender View Post
    As do our rulers, which is typical of societies in servitude to royalty.
    It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikender View Post
    The whole world sucks yet continues to rag on the United States.

    What else is new?
    Shouldn't the whole world rag on the US for all the death and destruction and chaos it creates?

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    Quote Originally Posted by green73 View Post
    Shouldn't the whole world rag on the US for all the death and destruction and chaos it creates?
    Of course.

    But this article has nothing to do with that at all. Economic disparity in the United States certainly can be connected to death and destruction abroad, but it is not a direct connection on most accounts.

    I'm right there beside them campaigning against the United States Government and their appetite for foreign blood, oil, and resources, but I find other countries criticizing us for racism, economic disparity, and other social issues hilarious when they're dealing with them just about as "good" as we are.

    The failure of the state in all its forms abroad is on display and yet most of the world's population is blind to it. It's just another game of "point the finger elsewhere" in order to distract them from their own ailing states that are grasping to stay afloat. Typical.
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    If Britain were to join the United States, it would be the second-poorest state, behind Alabama and ahead of Mississippi.
    Yes, being able to print at will the global currency does have its advantages.

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    And guess who subsidizes their economy, bails-out their banksters out, even their spying on Americans (GCHQ/Mi6/Menwith Hill/etc) is paid for by US Taxpayers. Then the secret "joint agreement" of Navy, Air Force, etc... Billion$ $pent on poor England.

    How's arrogance go again? "The Sun never sets on the British Empire!"

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    Another victory for socialism.
    The proper concern of society is the preservation of individual freedom; the proper concern of the individual is the harmony of society.

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