June 6th, 2010
What I’ve done, is taken the human development index which takes into account alot of factors, and then I’ve compared that to what political system that country uses.
Human Development Index – Wealth (GDP), Health, Education, Literacy, Quality of Life.
1. Norway 0.971 (▲ 1) (Socialist)
2. Australia 0.970 (▲ 2) (Socialist)
3. Iceland 0.969 (▼ 2) (Socialist)
4. Canada 0.966 (▼ 1) (Conservative)
5. Ireland 0.965 (▬) (Independant? Don’t know)
6. Netherlands 0.964 (▬) (Socialist)
7. Sweden 0.963 (▬) (Socialist)
8. France 0.961 (▲ 3) (Socialist)
9. Switzerland 0.960 (▬) (Socialist)
10. Japan 0.960 (▬) (Socialist)
11. Luxembourg 0.960 (▼ 3) (Christian Social People’s Party)
12. Finland 0.959 (▲ 1) (Centrist)
13. United States 0.956 (▼ 1) (Evil Capitalist Centre-Right Obama party)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index
Why does America rank lower than Socialist countries? Ive also noticed that almost all of those countries are members of the International Socialist Alliance.
@Poopoohead
These statistics are sourced from the United Nations.
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11 Comments
Well, I am pretty sure we rank pretty high when it comes to freedom and liberty and that is really all that matters. That is what everyone in this country should value most.
^^Lol.
Freedom, oh freedom…That’s just some people talkin. We are no more free in this country than most of the industrialized nations. We are slaves to both our Country and Corporations.
It doesn’t. We have better health care per se than the others do, but some people rank how successful a system is merely by how socialist it is. That’s circular logic, like saying “socialism is successful because it’s socialist”.
I think it has to do more with how they educate themselves more than political ideology. If we gave our children better education, we would eventually move up that list.
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Anybody who uses Wikipedia for political research doesn’t deserve this much of a comment. Why am I even acknowledging your existence, anyway?
Another ridiculous and highly criticized UN concoction. THe wiki paragraph on criticisms of this measurement is the largest paragraph in the whole link.
If you have an agenda and spend long enough you will find some statistic, however meaningful or meaningless, to show whatever it is your agenda wants to show.
because Many Americans are scared of the word socialist. We are scared because the cold war taught us to be scared of it. and Many people won’t look to other options in education healthcare, any social service for that matter if is says the word social. there were a few generation breed to believe that way and it is a hard thing to break. Many Americans think that if we take there ideas and adapt them to our own we would be giving government too much power, they have a fear of big government. They would rather let people die, be ignorant, and to not better them selves than adopt something that remotely sounds social. They claim freedom as the reason and liberty…LOL I know it sounds stupid, it is short sighted and ignorant. They obvoiusly have not been to those countries that have better standards of living, that have a higher education, that have a better health care system, that have a lower crime rate. All the things in which Americans complain about but are too stubborn to fix by looking at what others are doing and adopting our own variation. It is fear of the unknown. I am an American, proud of who I am and I serve. I do retain the freedom to disagree with them and the liberty to voice my opinion about it.
Why do most people immigrate to the USA
Because several elements of this index are essentially ranking the countries’ level of socialism.
You can design a ranking system to come up with any result you want. For example, let me ask the question “Why does Uruguay rank below Peru on the “Peru is #1 Index?”" (The rules are, countries that are Peru score 1, and those that aren’t score 0) This PROVES that Peru is better than Uruguay!!!!
Sorry but Education is underfunded in Australia and test results may even be worse than in the USA. Over the past 20 year australian high schools have dropped 20% in Math graduates.