Failed States Index

Thank God the US is more stable than Chile… just  :-D

SS

@saburo:

Thank God the US is more stable than Chile… just  :-D

And to think, if we had never supported Pinochet, they just might have been “green” this year.

–---->175  Sweden 
176 Finland
177 Norway

Don´t seems were about to collapse “yet” even thought we have a society with socialism every where and high taxes…    Maybe we got something right?.

@Nix:

–---->175  Sweden 
176 Finland
177 Norway

Don´t seems were about to collapse “yet” even thought we have a society with socialism every where and high taxes…    Maybe we got something right?.

How is the suicide rate in Sweden doing?

@AJ:

30th … you can probably blame ABBA for that too

:lol:

@Baghdaddy:

@Nix:

–---->175  Sweden 
176 Finland
177 Norway

Don´t seems were about to collapse “yet” even thought we have a society with socialism every where and high taxes…    Maybe we got something right?.

How is the suicide rate in Sweden doing?

Seen cavorting with Kevorkian since his release.

It is actually interesting to look a little deeper at the rankings.  The US ranks relatively poorly in 3 categories:

• Massive Movement of Refugees or Internally Displaced Persons creating Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

• Uneven Economic Development along Group Lines

• Suspension or Arbitrary Application of the Rule of Law and Widespread Violation of Human Rights

With respect to the first of these categories, the US scored a 5.5, a little better than Malta (6.1), Latvia (5.7) and SAfrica (6) but worse than Huga Chavez’s Venezuela (5.2).  I’m not sure if this refers to the US immigration problem (probably) or to those people displaced by Hurricane Katrina who still had not been relocated in 2006.

As for Uneven Economic Development, this probably reflects growing income inequality in the US and while true may not be on the same scale as that found in places like Armenia (6) since while there is income inequality very few Americans are impoverished by world standards.

Finally, the US scores 4.6 regarding human rights and arbitrary detentions, on a par with Mali (4.6) and Croatia (4.5).  This clearly must be a reflection of Guantanamo Bay and the more onerous provisions of the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act.

SS

I am actually surprised that trade defecit and unfunded government liabilities would not have pretty much tanked us.

I know in terms of total government debt (as a ratio to GDP) we are (despite how bad things are here) a lot better than much of the world.  But those other two categories above pretty much are the ‘Finger of Doom’ to a government.

so . . . ummm . . . who’s reconcilling the fact that Canada is on the brink of disaster because of our bilingualism with our 168 ranking?

many organizations have liberal bias.

had to say it…… :-D

how else can you explain them sucking the nuts of the most socialistic nations on this planet.  the theme is socialism solves all.  let the government run everything!