In comparison to the US

[DoesntMatter]

Every other country in the world sucks with teeth

[Mish]

Yeh, the crime rate, the economy and national debt is so much worse in every single country compared to US.

[DoesntMatter]

Crime rates are skewed almost strictly as a result of our heterogenous society (i.e., the cities skew everything tremendously). Our economy is about the size of the entire European Union, and our debt as a percent of our GDP is about that of most other developed countries, it's smaller than Canadas for instance

[Mish]

US crime rate is one of the highest in the world, US economy is in recession and debt is in hundreds of billions (bigger than any other country in the world)

[DoesntMatter]

US crime rate is one of the highest in the world, US economy is in recession and debt is in hundreds of billions (bigger than any other country in the world)

Maybe you had trouble understanding the significance of everything I said the first time, so here it is again!

1) The US is a heterogenous society. Yours and many others compared to ours isn't. When you remove the huge amounts of crime caused by blacks in the inner city (sorry to be truthful) ours isn't higher than any others. The US just has small patches of extremely dangerous areas (parts of the city of Detroit, Flint, St. Louis, DC, New Orleans) that give it that crime rate

That is owing to a heterogenous element of society you don't have.

2) The world is in recession.

3) Our GDP is about $13 trillion. Compare that to hundreds of billions of dollars. Or look at our debt as a PERCENT of our GDP. It's probably lower than yours

[Mish]

Maybe you had trouble understanding the significance of everything I said the first time, so here it is again!

1) The US is a heterogenous society. Yours and many others compared to ours isn't. When you remove the huge amounts of crime caused by blacks in the inner city (sorry to be truthful) ours isn't higher than any others. The US just has small patches of extremely dangerous areas (parts of the city of Detroit, Flint, St. Louis, DC, New Orleans) that give it that crime rate

That is owing to a heterogenous element of society you don't have.

2) The world is in recession.

3) Our GDP is about $13 trillion. Compare that to hundreds of billions of dollars. Or look at our debt as a PERCENT of our GDP. It's probably lower than yours

1) The make up of the population doesn't matter, if the crime rate is high then it is high. It permanently takes away from your opening post.

2) The World is not in a recession, only countries like US are

3) It does not matter what the GDP is if the country is in debt and the debt is consistently growing. No changes are being made to reduce the debt. One third of this debt is owned by countries like China and you are paying interest on their investment and will continue to pay more as the debt increases.

[DoesntMatter]

Haha, that's OK Mish, I understand you want to justify yourself in any way you can

[misombra]

lol have you ever even been to any other country?

[Junket]

'Sombra, I was gonna come to New Mexico, but then I realized you're like Texas and 2 states away.

[DoesntMatter]

lol have you ever even been to any other country?

Yes. All over Ontario, Canada, tons and tons of times. Everywhere in Mexico south of Mexico City up to Guatemala. All of Italy and Switzerland. The Bahamas, and St. Maarten

[misombra]

'Sombra, I was gonna come to New Mexico, but then I realized you're like Texas and 2 states away.

i'm right next to texas!

you better get your asses over here.

[Junket]

You're too far for a weekend trip.

[misombra]

yeah. you need to come up on a wednesday and stay until monday. in the summer preferably so we can go to the mountains. your girlfriend would love the mountains.

[Junket]

She don't know mountains, I would love the mountains. I used to go up to the Poconos (Appalachian Mtns) all the time.

[misombra]

well that's why she would love it.

commmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmme frizzzbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!