U.S. Is No Longer Among the 10 Most Prosperous Countries

[Tom Joad]

Quite frankly, I'm surprised we're as high as #11.

I think our lack of Universal Single Payer Health Care should put us much farther down the list. By the way, what do the 10 countries that are ranked above us have that we don't have? Democratic So************************m, that's what. So if you want to make America Great again, you should vote for Bernie Sanders.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-no-l...203045054.html

Ten countries have now become more prosperous than the United States.

The U.S. is ranked No. 11 in the latest annual Prosperity Index, which was released this week by the Legatum Institute, an international think tank based in London.

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[donquixote99]

Since you highlight health, it's ironic that health was the area in which the rankers did put the US at #1. But despite all the people in prison, all the privacy invaded by the NSA, and the dwarf-all-others defense spending, we only manage #33 in safety and security, they say.

Oh, and all the well-armed citizens, forgot to mention....