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Originally Posted by zimmy
I couldn't let this go, because like so much I read on here, reality is so different than truth. Jim in CT says everyone in Norway is rich so they can afford $10/gallon for gas. Norway per capita income is $36,000. Per capita in US is $39,626. So looks like we are wealthier, no? Maybe $11 per gallon is reasonable here since we are rich and can afford it.
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I see you said it again.
Zimmy showed (twice) that average pay in Norway is higher than in the US, so I guess I was wrong when I said Norway is wealthier than the US, right Zimmy? So I guess you got me, right?
Ummm, not even close. Zimmy, there is more to a nation's economic health than average paycheck. For example, in the case of Norway, if you don't have to worry about the costs of healthcare, education, or retirement, than you can do a whole lot more with a smaller paycheck. If I didn't need to pay for healthcare, retirement, or college for my kids, I could afford $25 a gallon and be far wealthier than I am today. Still with me?
Check out this link, shows standard of living by nation.
http://able2know.org/topic/55762-1
Norway is #1. That means the best. That means they are wealthier than everyone else, including us. So either (1) you just proved that study to be flawed, or (2) your little "fact" falls way short of telling the whole story. Norway has the highest standard of living in the world, and their entire economy is based on oil. We have lots of oil, but the Democrats want to just let it sit there, so that we can be enslaved and impoverished by Middle eastern nations run by fanatical sociopaths. Those Middle Eastern nations take our huge sums of money, and they do awesome things with it, such as fund terrorists and finding new ways to treat their women even more barbarically (I have spent time there, I saw things you would not imagine). I'm sorry if that fact makes Democrats look, well, stupid, but it's still a fact, so please don't take that out on me.
You want to ask me a question, awesome. You want to make me out to be an ignoramus or an idiot, that's harder, because I think before I decide what my opinions are.