America: We’re (Not) #1!

Wow, according to this we should all move to Finland!

Mmmmmm The United States of Arrogance.

I am a proud member of the Tea Party moovement and I don’t beleive you! This is just more mainstreem media socialist communism and it’s not true. We are #1. Sarah said so. This is the best countrie in the world and I don’t need no dam facts to know it.

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner.
I’ts majority rules. Just like a lynch mob.

The WHO recently found that the US has the best quality of health care in the world – the problem in the US is affordability. People go to other countries because it is cheaper, not better.

The US has a high infant mortality rate because we consider all babies born live to be a person. In many other countries a baby that does shortly after birth because of complications is considered “stillborn” and this artificially drives down its infant mortality rate making the US look worse by comparison.

The US has a lower life expectancy rate comparied to other countries because we have a higher “instant death” rate. Far more people die in the US from murder and accidents. Once you factor out those types of death, we are second only to France in life expectancy.. which makes me wonder where they came up with Andorra, Japan and San Marino as numbers one, two and three.

By “democracy” they would most likely mean “liberty”. And yes, liberty in the Land of Liberty has been on the decline for years… which is what is getting us our high prison population. Our lives in the US are being regulated to the point where nearly every citizen commits crimes daily and never even realizes it. There have been organizations forming lately with the goal of decriminalizing Americans.

They’re pretty spot on about our horrible education, and as a direct consequence our abyssmal scientific literacy. This will continue as long as the Unions and Government stay in control of education in the US. Their only ideas seem to be to throw more money at the problem… while at the same time not requireing school children to perform better.

And yes, the US is full of corruption… as anyone who has read the most recently passed piece of major legislation can tell you.

Iceland kicks major a$$

What’s interesting about some of these comments is that people think only americans think their country is number one. Of course you would think your country is the best! In many national anthems of countries, have you ever heard one that says something that suggests a country is failing, metocre, or even second best? Most people don’t really like to think that someone has it WAY better than they do. Also, no one wants to live in the place that isn’t the best. Why would you WANT (keyword WANT) to live somewhere when in one country you could have it a lot better? That is why people want to have pride in their country, to have a sense that the place they grew up in was the best place there was, no matter what anyone says.
P.S to anyone who wants to burn me for this comment. I will not be checking back on this comment thread EVER so I don’t have to be insulted.

Damn, Scandinavia (and Iceland) get shit done!

I forgot:

Low crime rates, and possession of small amounts of light drugs is not a crime.

wow guys um i don’t have no fucking clue what you guys are talking about but all i heard is complain and smartass people.

Given the very unhealthy diet and pollution of the USA how should there be the highest life expectancy?
Undisclosed state security measures can distort democracy rankings. All countries with major security apparatuses impinge on press freedom, if Finnish and other internet is faster, why are these systems not bought? Maybe vegetarianism reduces crime. Yet Hitler was one?! Where there is money and bureaucracy there is corruption. Dedication is required in study. Teenage promiscuity and loveless sexual activity is detrimental to the studies of girl students. Busy people sometimes do not have time to phone. Pollution and profits must be abandoned in favour of the environment. Scandinavians´relative licence and absence of inhibition among women frees them from mental and physical distraction which makes them head scientific literacy. When my father developed a major intracerebral problem, I was misinformed that the USA has the best healthcare, although taking overall factors into account I did not take this too seriously. Poverty in the inner cities of the USA will raise infant mortality. Infants have very low resistance. Swedish doctors thought they discovered that I had congenital hip dysplasia (my maternal great-grandmother had this) when I was a baby, and my mother still took me to an infant healthcare programme, which my father discontinued as he found the conditions indecent and unhygienic, I worry if the orthopaedic brace may have induced later pelvic stricture, but I am not so narrow backwards, but since suspecting violation, but not being certain not being an expert I have lost interest in eventually bearing children, and I am interested in a military career, and I had wanted to have children quickly and early in life for this reason, but my father was blind and I cared for me, and the Asian culture fashion combined with according to my father a Mongol descent, made me get me fixed on the idea to find my right match from Mongolia, my father suggested this could be done on the Internet, but they did not answer or the e-mails were sabotaged by Mongolian-haters, as my father was a distinguished person, I would not get it out of my head and even heart and kept trying for years. When finally I visited Mongolia, I found the people speak almost no English and no-one cared for me except that I made friends with a woman teacher, it felt constricted and not especially secure, with the almost haunted lingering of a great history which had made the world at times, and on my return I also realized I was past the age to enter the army of that country if I would become its citizen. In the meanwhile I may also have sustained more than damage to the entire system.

What’s up with Iceland?