Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "Richest Congressman: The World Is Jealous Of Our Poor" video.

  1. US ranking:  • 10th highest GDP per capita  • 166th highest social equality  • 11th highest social mobility
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  2. Spencer Chudyk  "At the EU level there is no systematic data available on homelessness. In the EU-SILC survey overcrowding and housing deprivation are amongst the indicators of the social inclusion strand, but other categories of homelessness are not included. Moreover, as revealed in detail by FEANTSA (2009), there is a large variety in the quality and availability of data on homelessness in the separate member states, both regarding statistics in general and information on the different categories of homelessness as used in the ETHOS-typology" http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=12884&langId=en What data did you use to conclude that the homeless rate in EU is higher than in US?
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  3. Spencer Chudyk That's pretty ok, yes, but far from proportional to his smug.
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  4. ***** Perhaps it would be wiser to compare individual states of US to individual states of EU?
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  5. moonlily1 To be fair, US does have the highest GDP though. So as a country, yes it can be considered the richest.
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  6. ***** "if the US is the richest country then it is really weird that it has such a bad infrastucture" GDP is foremost a measure of the production of the economy as a whole. How US government choose to spend its tax revenues has little direct consequences on the GDP, as long as it spends it.
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  7. ***** Fake in what way?
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