Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Face the Nation" channel.

  1. She doesn't know how unemployment is calculated. She is an idiot.
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  2. Compare to FL to CA, both states did a different approach, are basically equal in population density, weather, etc. and ended up with similar results.
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  3.  @darrkstarg  deaths per million FL: 1437 CA: 1318 US average: 1588 A difference of less than 100 is similar. Do you know how statistics work?
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  4.  @ashyhusky4130  we are adults. If you want to hide in fear you have that right. Others are going to live life. Government cannot protect you from all dangers in life, you need to take care of yourself and not expect government to do it for you.
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  5.  erin smith  true, FL does have an older population which adds to my argument that one, there are so many variables and two, do the lockdowns and masks every work? Comparing the two states of FL and CA and the death rate difference is less than 100? Now consider how many people who suffered because of the lockdowns and bad economy.
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  6.  @joepenfield  life is full of dangers. I drove my car today to drop off my rent, I put others in danger doing that. So should we ban driving?
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  7.  @Syrnian  ok, what about NY and NJ who are doing worse than SD? You have that as well. Also factor in the damage done due to a bad economy as well.
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  8.  @fieldlab4  how is FL lying? Any evidence of that. "but fatality rate among infected has to do with hospital access, capacity and quality of care." That is part of it, but that is with any disease. And SD may be 8th, but what about NJ and NY who had strict lockdowns and still do?
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  9. @American Pie do you know how per capita works? And via known cases the average death rate is 1.7%, SD is at 1.6%, so they are beating the US average. And again, that is of known cases.
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  10.  @Mytro8533  to start, we are talking about putting others in danger. A seat belt is to keep me safe. Next, there comes a limit. This is studied in economics all the time. In driving there are 40,000 who die a year in the US due to traffic accidents. Capping speed limits to 15 MPH will make that number to be zero. But the drawback is that productivity will drop a lot doing more damage. Same with this virus. Shutting down the economy and businesses may have slowed down the spread (no evidence that it does), but think about how many lost their businesses and jobs now.
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  11. @American Pie you are always doing things at the expense of others. When you drive you place others at risk.
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  12.  Umanfly  one has to be fair at this point. Why did states like NJ and NY do strict lockdowns have a higher death rate? The reality is that there are varying results. FL and CA are very similar all around as states, had different approaches towards this virus but ended up with similar results. So it begs the question if lockdowns even work.
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  13. MrKgb63, if you make college "tuition free" colleges will raise their prices costing the government more money. Also, books, rent, etc. will cost more. The student loan program caused college tuition so sky rocket.
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  14.  common since  CDC numbers of deaths per 100,000 ND: 189 SD: 213 AZ: 219 MS: 224 NJ: 261 CT: 213 RI: 236 MA: 231 NYC: 349 Those are CDC numbers. SD is not the worse, and ND is nowhere near the worse. In cases you are correct, ND and SD are at the top, but that goes to show that they also have a higher survival rate. Also, both ND and SD have flattened their curves. Their active cases are low.
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  15. Who? If you are talking about Walmart you have to realize that those Sam's Clubs were planned to be closed down months ago. Online sales are overtaking retail thus those stores were going to close. Those workers received 2 months pay which gives them plenty of time to find new jobs.
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  16. Bernie Sanders, all rhetoric and no specifics. We have a lot of foolish people in our country.
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  17. Burlington has 42,000 people, that is far from being a "city". It has no industry making it very easy to manage. Burlington also has a negative growth rate. But hey, leave out facts that don't suit your ideas. Bernie is an economic illiterate.
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  18.  @joepenfield  they are similar. In the US it is around 1500 per million. When you are talking about a difference of less than 100 when you have numbers in the thousands, that is similar. Again, do you know how statistics work?
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  19.  @joepenfield  doing a quick calculation the standard deviation in the US of deaths per million is around 500. So a difference of less than 100 between two states is nothing.
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  20.  @Syrnian  yeah, it was quick and dirty from copying and pasting in excel. Either way, a standard deviation of around 500 means two states being around 100 difference are seeing similar results.
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  21. High case count but also a high recovery rate. Also, their active cases are now around 1/10 compared to their peak. Them, and ND have literally flatten the curve and beat covid. We should follow what she did to get out of covid.
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  22. She opposes the stimulus package.
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  23. She doesn't know how unemployment is calculated. And why is she in Kansas? She does not represent those people.
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  24. Several flaws here. On, she, herself, cannot do that. You have different branches of government. Next, how far are you willing to go with the "saving my life"? Why not force people to wear helmets? You bring up seat belts, going with driving there are still 40,000 deaths a year due to traffic accidents. Capping speed limits to 15 MPH will make that number to be zero. But productivity will drop which will cause more damage. Now take this virus, shutting down businesses may have slowed down the spread but one, there is no hard evidence for that. Many states had strict lockdowns with terrible results. Next, shutting down the businesses did a lot of harm to the economy and individuals as well. Also, in seat belt laws, like all laws, it took an act of congress, many elected officials working on it and there is a reason why seat belt laws exist. It isn't so much to protect you. It is that in all 50 states car insurance is required and a part of keeping car insurance cost low is to require seat belts to be worn. It isn't arbitrary as say shutting down businesses due to a virus.
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  25.  @rrdream2400  then by that logic South Dakota should have a lot of flu cases as well. So what gives?
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  26.  @theepiccrafthouse9760  many states have kids in schools.
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  27. Hey There, Norway has lower corporate taxes, a free market in employer/employee relationship, no min. wage, 5 million people, higher oil productivity, and lower obesity rate. But hey, ignore all of that and just call a country whatever you want I guess.
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  28. SodaBoy628, those polls are unreliable. Bernie was never subjected to the attacks from the RNC. The RNC wanted Bernie to beat Clinton as he is a much easier candidate. People are not going to vote for a socialist who defended Castro, never had a real job in his life, stole electricity from his neighbor and wants to raise everyone's taxes. If Bernie runs against Trump in 2020 Bernie might win 10 states at best.
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  29. The same polls said Clinton was going to win. Polls are unreliable for several reasons. 80% of voters in Colorado said no to universal healthcare. Why? Because people saw that taxes were going to go up. People on the midwest want lower taxes, not higher.
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  30. +Damion Moore People have asked him policy questions in the past and he fell apart. Simply look at his interview with Bill Maher.
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  31. +realscummy Even those on the right were applauding Maher after his interview with Bernie. Bernie looked like a fool and could not answer any questions. Bernie has been in federal office for how long? Almost 3 decades? And he can't come up with a number? He should have this done by now.
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  32. +Keith Barrett I have read and heard of what he says. He has no specifics. Pick any economic policy of Bernie Sanders and I can break down how he one, has no specifics, and two that particular policy won't work.
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  33. +Odin_NtR I agree the current tax system is unfair. You want to fix it? Go back to a tax on the states and remove all other federal taxes. It worked fine for almost 140 years. Bernie is a career politician, that is another problem I have with him. He is concerned about winning which is why he has no specifics and he dodges questions dealing with them.
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  34. +flyingboat Considering he oversaw the slowest recovery ever after a recession and one of the worst times we have had economically in this country it is safe to say I am right. I bet you think David Shula was a great NFL coach as well.
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  35. +Shawn Dupuis He "free college" he says will raise $47 billion at the federal level with the states covering $23 billion. The states won't be able to do it with a stock market increase. So no, it won't bring in $300 billion. Plus the current student loan debt is $1.2 trillion, that is much larger than $300 billion. FICA taxes are a reason why wages are low. Eliminating the cap won't do anything. And expanding medicare how? Which what money? Taxing the rich an extra tenth of a percent won't cover it. Bernie has no detail plans. The number one problem with Bernie is that he wants to add more layers of government. Every problem we have in this country are related to the federal government touching it in some ways. Adding more government will make it worse. That has been proven. High healthcare cost and stagnate wages are due to the FICA tax. Expanding it will make it worse. High college tuition is due to the federal government getting involved with college loans. Making it "free" will make it worse. How does Bernie plan on fixing the problem of limited professors, limited dorms, limited classrooms etc.? He doesn't have a plan. Bernie never ran Vermont. He was a mayor and then a senator. He was never governor. Even with that VT has high cost of living, low home ownership rate, and has one of the highest rates of drug use in the country.
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  36. +Shawn Dupuis No, I will demand that my loans be paid off now along with others. The point is that the money is not there, even from Bernie's own numbers. He never said $300 billion, nobody but you have. Bernie is bad at math but you seem to be worse. Even with that how do you address the issue of lack of dorms, lack of classrooms, lack of professors? How will healthcare spending decrease? You never explained that. My overall problem with Bernie is that if you take any one of his policies and break they down they simply won't work. It is start to come out with you. You say remove the cap on SS. Ok, how are you going to stop employers from stop giving out raises? FICA taxes are the reason why wages are stagnated in several ways. How are you going to prevent those with money from moving money to prevent paying that higher tax? It is easy to change payroll? And with healthcare, how are you going to prevent the rising cost? Same with college education, you are starting to fall apart in your argument. You even realize that there are not many professors and classrooms. Plus you $300 billion is made up. Breaking down every single one of Bernie's policies shows that it won't work. The money is not there to raise $300 billion in taxes, that is simple math. The reason why healthcare is so expensive is from the government.
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  37. +Shawn Dupuis If everyone entitled to a "free college" then my loans, along with others should be paid off. That will become an issue. I have a degree, so do several other with loans. They are people that showed they had the ability to go to college and finished. So they deserve their right to a free college. If other people are going to get it so do ones that already got it. That will get brought up and it will become an issue. Or do you not feel that everyone who is capable deserves a "free education"? On people getting raises, SS is paid for by a payroll tax. When a company pays higher wages it has to pay a payroll tax. If you remove a cap than companies will pay less. It is that simple. That is why there was a cap to begin with, companies pay into FICA taxes as well. Higher taxes will mean lower wages to avoid the higher rate. Who has a detail plan? Not many people yet. The problem is that Bernie's plans are too radical as is even without details. I can take every single one of his economic policies and show how it simply won't work. Other politicians you currently can't do that with. That shows the level of extreme Bernie is. Healthcare is more expensive because of the federal government. How come other areas of the market that were not touched by the federal government (and when I say that I mean whose funding was strongly effected by the federal government) have gotten better and cheaper? There is a very strong correlation there. You may be done wasting time with me which is fine. At times I hope Bernie wins. It is like a kid touching a hot pan and learning not to touch it again. After Bernie gets elected and things get worse maybe people will learn how poor he is. But FDR was elected 4 times despite his policies led us through the worse economic times this country has seen. People can be not so bright at times.
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  38. +Shawn Dupuis I heard what you said. You said a tax on wallstreet will raise $300 billion. Not even Bernie says that. He says $47 billion. Where do you get your numbers from?
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  39. +flyingboat Public schools, police and fire department are all locally funded. Something even Milton Friedman supported.
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  40. +flyingboat And FDR was one of the worst presidents ever. Watch the video I linked, it is very interesting.
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  41. +flyingboat My ideas are radical? But not Bernie Sanders? We literally can't afford his ideas just like we could not afford FDR's policies. Under FDR we saw the slowest recovery ever from a recession. We saw massive spending and debt increase. It eventually took the war, and his death to lead to recovery from the recession. Anyone who thinks that FDR is one of the best is wrong. FDR led us through a slow recovery, threaten to stack the courts to violate the constitution, and expanded the size of the federal government which created the problems we have now. Yes what you listed is socialist. As Milton Friedman said there is a role for government, but you have to keep it as local as possible to see that you are getting your moneys worth. At the federal level you feel that you are spending someone else's money, but they are spending yours as well. At the federal level you have more waste. And at the federal level you have less control of the government thus you have more chances for corruption.
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  42. +flyingboat Now think about what you said. You called me a radical when I simply suggest we follow what the founding fathers wanted, a limited government and state rights. Meanwhile you want the federal government to control healthcare, to control college education (when it does not even control K-12 education), to raise the min. wage over 100% of what it currently is, to pay for over $1 trillion dollars for rebuilding infrastructure which means what? (and also that money does not exist). But yet I am radical, not Bernie......really?
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  43. +Zak Loveland What infrastructure needs to be rebuilt? And is there a demand for it? That is what I am asking. We can build building left and right, but if nobody demands it we might as well dig holes in the ground.
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  44. +flyingboat 1. My ideas are not opinions. But besides that point, I find it ironic that you call my ideas radical when you support Bernie who wants, a $15/hr min. wage, over twice the current, "free" college when the federal government does not even control K-12 education, "free" healthcare, infrastructure spending that off of Bernie's own numbers we can't afford on top of other policies of Bernie that expand the federal government. Under FDR we saw a slow recovery. Every other recession took around 5 years to recover from except for two, the current one now and the great depression. Under FDR we saw a slow recovery and every text book knows that which is why it was called the Great Depression. Half of the founding fathers did not want to expand the federal government in 1787. Only Alexander Hamilton wanted it. That is why after the War of 1812 when a federal income tax was suggested it was denied. 2. Bernie Sanders is not moderate. He supports massive expansion of the federal government. And when Bernie is gone what is going to prevent future politicians from taking advantage of the new power the federal government has? That is the exact same problem FDR created. That is the worse part about Bernie Sanders. Never mind that he does no have any specifics on his policies, he wants to create a system that future politicians can take advantage of. You have yet to present facts, all you present is rhetoric. How is Bernie a "moderate"? He supports expansion of the federal government. That is the complete opposite of a "moderate" That is similar to someone who wants no government, it is just on the other side. "My advice? Use actual evidence to support your claims in the future instead of citing crazy conspiracy videos" Says the person who doesn't cite anything as well and feels Bernie is a "moderate".
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  45. +bob ewell What textbook did he cite? I don't see it. Just saying something is textbook is not citing a textbook. People like my comments, others don't. I learned that those who don't aren't too bright.
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  46. +realscummy I know they are socialized. I really don't have a problem with socialism in the US as long as it is done at the state and local level.
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  47. +grvonny It is my money as well. I say you should not get a dime.
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  48. +grvonny Typical Bernie Sanders supporter response.
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  49. +grvonny Ok, pick any economic policy of Bernie Sanders and I can break down how it simply won't work.
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  50. +SodaBoy628 Nobody paid that 90% rate. If I were rich I would love to have that rate from the 50s and 60s with 50s and 60s technology and deductions.
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  51. +SodaBoy628 In 1967 there were 155 Americans earning over $200,000 that years and paid zero taxes. One of them earned over $23 million. Why do you think the Tax Reform Act of 1969 was passed?
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  52. +SodaBoy628 http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4020&context=clr Page 173, and that is just one of many I can provide. That fact that you immediately went to "Fox News" shows you lack interest in actually learning the subject, but hopefully you can learn this.
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  53. +SodaBoy628 Ok, try page 413. The link went to a different article which is the same, just numbered differently. "People like you are why Americans have a bad reputation in other countries." A little butt hurt when you get proven wrong.
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  54. +SodaBoy628 I stated the fact and even cited it and it was not from Fox News.
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  55. +grvonny Out of everyone running I feel that John Kasich is the best. He has flaws but no where near as mean as Bernie. At least John has understanding of economics.
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  56. +grvonny How does John Kasich believe in corporate welfare? Corporations earn a lot of profits to keep shareholders happy. That means better goods and services for the consumer at a lower price and more convenient locations. The consumer benefits in that situation.
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  57. +Joe Greg If you are rich than you provided society with something they demanded already. You are making it sound like that someone who is rich is naturally born that way.
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  58. +calum morrison If you raise the min. wage than there will be kids who won't have any job.
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  59. +grvonny College is expensive due to the federal government as well.
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  60. +Ezequiel Aguilar I don't agree with corporate welfare either.
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  61. +Ezequiel Aguilar I guess you didn't read my next comment where I corrected the page number. The original document I read had a page 173, the one I linked (same one overall, different link) had it on a different page "dumbass".
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  62. +grvonny The amount of money someone has means nothing if we don't have any wealth. We need to grow wealth. Buy doing that goods and services get better and cheaper. Money is meaningless if people don't have wealth.
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  63. +grvonny I am not saying that. You need to learn that wealth does not equal income. In order to get wealth you have to develop it. Wealth only exist when one develops it. When you learn that wealth does not equal income then we can move on with the discussion.
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  64. +grvonny Wealth does not start with money. You can have wealth and no money. If someone values something they can obtain it without money. Money was created to solve two problems in the market, the double incidents of wants problem, and the retention of value problem. But as a whole you don't need money to have wealth. Definition of wealth is : a large amount of money and possessions: the value of all the property, possessions, and money that someone or something has: a large amount or number Money is involved but it does not start there. "starving wage" What exactly does that mean? You do know that we produce too much food as a society right now.
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  65. SD is 8th in deaths per capita. Also, they have seen the largest decline in active cases where other states haven't seen a decline in active cases yet. In all, SD did it right, they are done with covid.
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  66.  @garydunn3868  and there are states like NY, NJ, RI that did strict lockdowns and have higher deaths per capita. It really begs the question if lockdowns work. However, SD has seen their active cases drop down to 1/10 of their peak and they are at where they were in August where other states are just starting to see a drop in active cases. In all SD beat covid. They can live life while other states are still arguing if kids can go back to school.
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  67.  @garydunn3868  that is a fair argument, but now compare FL and CA, two states that are basically the same but different approaches. They end up with similar results with covid, but CA has a bad economy now. So it begs the question if the lockdowns work.
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  68.  @garydunn3868  SD is 8th in death per capita. Their death rate, of known cases, is 1.6% where the US average if 1.7%. SD has done very well. They did have advantages? Sure, but they also have disadvantages such as limited access to healthcare like a lot of rural places face. There are some places where people will have to drive over an hour to get to a hospital where in a state like NY they have quick access. I live in an urban area, I am within 20 minute walking distant of two hospitals. A rural town has no hospitals and have to drive an hour to get to the city.
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  69.  @garydunn3868  so you have no point.
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  70. No we aren't. Deaths are not going up.
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  71. Actually, "life" is not mentioned in the Constitution. And a "right to life" simply means government cannot take life away without due process. Also, states have seen varying results with the virus. FL and CA are, for all intents and purposes, are very similar overall and ended up with similar results of covid. CA shut down, FL did not.
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  72.  @katewaldron738  yeah, and rights are what the government cannot take away without due process. Also, there are states that done worse than SD with lockdowns. Just like FL and CA have similar results where FL ended their lockdowns, CA didn't. There are several reasons for the death rate. SD has the highest cases per capita, but a survival rate that is above the national average. Also, their active cases are now down to where they were before their spike where other states are now just seeing a drop. That means they reached herd immunity with a low death rate and not destroying their economy.
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  73.  @Syrnian  SD has seen their active case numbers drop the most. They are now back to their numbers they had in the summer after a spike. In all, SD beat the virus. Even with high cases their death rate is low. They are first in case per capita but 8th in death meaning that they had a high survival rate and also let the virus run its course and they are done.
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  74. It isn't just that, most on the left are using this as a paid vacation. Easy to push for lock downs when one has a paycheck like teacher unions for example.
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  75. Fauci is just pushing his 5 minutes of fame. He is not giving the full story and should not be trusted. Deaths are down. The 7 day average dropped again yesterday, but no one reports that.
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  76.  @thomaskim5394  "You do not want to listen to the leading medical experts' recommendation" If you are talking about Fauci what makes him the "leading medical expert"? Also, experts can disagree. There are experts out there that disagree with Fauci. And why trust Fauci? First the CDC director said we can open up schools, but later, after talking to teacher unions Fauci said we should get relief first. He is a hack.
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  77. @UCSi3oRunzwmNj67kQyEp_NQ which you need to compare South Dakota to something
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  78.  common since  where are you getting your numbers from because you are factually incorrect.
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  79.  common since  I used CDC numbers as well. Look at Worldometer who uses CDC numbers.
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  80.  common since  even going to the CDC site I see 7 states that have a higher death per 100,000 than SD.
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  81.  common since  you have no room to talk, you deny facts.
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  82.  common since  funny you say numbers when you are wrong on where SD and ND rank in deaths per capita.
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  83. @American Pie here is an issue to consider, access to healthcare. Many people in rural areas have very limited access to healthcare. I live in a city, I lie within a 20 minute walking distant from 2 hospitals. Now compared that to a time where my dad, who lives in a rural area, had to travel 45 minutes to the hospital for heart problems. So even at that SD had a high survival rate.
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  84.  @Clementine1966  close to 3 million die a year to begin with, many cases that are avoidable. We never shut down before.
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  85. No, it was actually great what we did. We have now seen what works and what doesn't. We are seeing that the lockdowns do not work and we need to open back up. However, some states are still refusing to open up schools.
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  86. The concept if lock downs work is not well supported. You compared SD to MN. Compare FL to CA now. CA had strict lock downs, FL did not. FL and CA have similar results even though FL has a much older population. Fact is that in SD they did not destroy businesses and jobs.
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  87. Uh, results vary. How did NY and NJ have higher death rates despite large lockdowns?
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  88. The issue is that the media never grills the left on these issues like these. If Noem was a democrat the media will be praising her as her state literally beat covid. Look at the active cases, they are low in SD where other states are now just seeing a decline. Yes, they are 8th in deaths per capita, but they are 1 in cases per capita. What does that mean? It means they have a high survival rate and they beat covid. They have herd immunity.
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  89. MMT is a joke.
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  90. And now their active cases are low where other states are now just starting to see a drop in active cases. And the survival rate is high. They beaten covid and are doing well.
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  91. Those who say universal healthcare would be cheaper are mistaken. What government funded program actually driven down cost? Other nations do it cheaper because they have lower quality, less R&D and their culture simply has healthier lifestyles with lower obesity and smoking rates. Fact is these ultra leftists have no clue what they are doing. They are promising these things to people with no clue how to fund them or manage them. AOC was asked how she will pay for them and her response was simply saying they will have to look at the tax code.
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  92. 786otto, why work when the government will provide you with everything you need? That will be my attitude along with the attitude of others. That is why socialism on a large scale never works. People become entitled and refuse to work.
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  93. Hauke Holst, 1. In European nations everyone pays higher taxes, not just the rich. In the US the top 10% earned 40% of the income but paid 70% of federal income taxes. That sounds like a "fair share" to me 2. US medical spending is higher because of our high quality and R&D. Also, we have many government regulations that drive up the cost. One is that no ER can deny services. People get care at the ER and cannot pay, so others pick up the cost. That is a form of universal healthcare. The US just refuses to lower the quality like other nations do. Also, insurance companies have too much power due to the lack of a free market. Despite what economic illiterates like AOC we do not have a capitalist system in healthcare. We have a higher regulated one that takes powers away from the consumers. 3. Defense spending has been dropping for years. $300 billion on healthcare would not put a dent in the total cost. Healthcare is close to a $4 trillion industry.
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  94. Kit's pics, the administrative cost is very deceptive. To start, medicare has the luxury of other government agencies to run certain programs. For examples, insurance pays for disease awareness where medicare has the CDC. Medicare has the IRS to collect revenue, insurance doesn't have that. Next, if you do a per patient cost Robert Book showed that medicare cost $509/patient where insurance cost $453/patient in administration cost. So medicare is more expensive.
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  95.  @aliciao.5731  NY and NJ had strict lockdowns, still do with higher death rates. SD is basically out of this. They have "flatten the curve" in active cases. NY still has high active cases.
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  96. And states like NJ and NY did harsh lockdowns and saw more deaths per million. Compare FL to CA, two states with a lot of similarities, different approaches, similar results. It begs the question if these lockdowns and masks even work.
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  97. Fredrik, the top 10% earn 40% of the income but pay 70% of federal income taxes. You point to corporations which are no people, so that is a completely different situation all together. As for your math, people who in the 1% are paid through multiple sources. Now if you want to complain about the complexity of our tax code I would agree. I support a flat income tax and a consumption tax. That's fair. But to ultra leftists what't "fair" is taxing the rich at a higher rate for arbitrary reasons.
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  98. CJ Davison, K-12 education is ran and funded locally. SS is running out of money. The VA is a mess.
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  99. Overall Retardation, Norway does many things that Bernie doesn't support. Norway has no min. wage, Bernie wants to double it. Norway has lower corporate taxes, Bernie wants to raise them. Norway produces more oil than the US, Bernie wants to reduce the production of oil. Also, a larger economy is more diverse and harder to micromanage. How many nations have 100+ million people, universal healthcare and are successful economically?
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  100. Overall Retardation, first off, don't use the phrase "living wage", it is 100% subjective. Next, unions can be strong if you have limited government. Nations like Norway have a free market when it comes to employer/employee relationships. In the US unions are some of the top donors in campaigns which is crony unionism. One of the reasons why the min. wage exists is because of unions use it as a negotiating tool in wages. In countries like Norway unions are strong as they have a free market system in that regards. That is the complete opposite of what Bernie wants. Less war will not come close to paying for Bernie's stuff. Defense spending is 4% of GDP, healthcare is 1/6 of GDP. Germany is very controlling in their system. They decide who can and cannot go to college. Culture plays a major role in and economic system. Compare Utah and Nevada, two neighboring states with different cultures. Look at how different their economies are.
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  101. Samol, you can't make a ranking for "happiness" as there is no way to quantify it. Ultra leftists point to those completely subjective lists as an argument when in reality it makes them look foolish. I bet the 2018 Cleveland Browns fans would be happier than the 2017 Browns fans if the Browns won 5 games this year. Does that mean those fans were in the best situation? No. As for education ranking, there are indicators the US does well in education. Reality is that our cultures are different and you can't compare.
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  102. Afinati, "happiness" is very subjective. Being "happy" does not mean one is in the best situation.
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  103. Uh, it varies. Compare FL to CA, two states with a lot of similarities but different approaches. They have similar results related to covid. Or look at NY and NJ who have done worse than SD. It begs the question if lockdowns and masks work.
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  104.  @omartraore666  New Zealand is an island.
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