Free healthcare! Really! And no waiting!
For the first time in more than a century the standard of living in Britain is higher than in America, according to a new report.
The Muslims will live well and better!
Standard of living in UK better than in USAHow do you define standard of living other than by the amount and quality of the goods and services you buy and the amount of free time you have to enjoy them? Being a millionaire wouldn't be so good if it cost you $100,000 for a typical dinner.
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However the average British person may not feel richer than their US cousins as goods and services there are often vastly cheaper. So, despite earning less, the average American can buy more.
Free healthcare! Really! And no waiting!
I’ll take America over Britain any day of the week and twice on Sunday!
It sure is nice of those doctors and nurses to work for free, not to mention the free hospitals and medicine donated gratis by God, of course.
Actually, "you get what you pay for" applies here; my sister and her family were in the U.K. when my niece slipped and hurt her tooth. My sister described the hospital personnel and infrastructure in the U.K. as horrendous, eons behind the U.S. in any facet you might use to compare the two systems.
“Analysts at the respected Oxford Economics consultancy say that increasing incomes, free healthcare and longer holidays make the average Briton better-off than his or her US counterpart.”
Free healthcare. lol I love when this is mentioned. When you’re paying exorbitant taxes to fund a gov’t run healthcare program, it’s far from free.
Dolts.
Aside from health care, markets in the UK are relatively free...just like in the US...so it isn’t surprising that the GDP per head measures are close. It also isn’t surprising that France and Germany lag far behind.
-cunningly concealed in plain sight in the article--
It is vastly more expensive to live in the UK than in the US. We have much more powerful purchasing power than any other place in the world and that is why we have much better standards of living.
Yeah, but we have better teeth. As a matter of fact, we HAVE teeth.
This is nonsense from the Telegraph.
We in Britain have an average wage of about 42000 dollars a year, everything is more expensive, and there is SEVEN TIMES LESS SPACE PER PERSON.
On the other hand, our legal system actually works on a presumption of innocence - there just isn’t the 90% “success rate” that one sees in the Federal Justice system, our juries are made of sensible people and there is no “Jackpot justice”. We don’t owe our flood victims three quadrillion dollars :0)
And there just isn’t the scope for toxic race-baiters to thrive in the UK as there is in the US.
But otherwise I think the US must be a great, nay superior, place to live.
(And - to the usual suspects who crawl out every single time there is a UK/US comparison, both countries have the same percentage of Muslims. Really. So go soak your heads.)
I saw this story the other day, and I just don’t believe it. They are only looking at one factor, namely income. It doesn’t talk about the 17% VAT, the oppressive taxes, the crummy socialist health services, the muslim problem there, the hundreds of cameras tracking you everywhere each day, the speed cameras/speed traps/revenue generators along roads (especially where the speeds change) that are just waiting to nail you, and all the Orwellian big brother stuff going on over there.
I just truly do not believe it.
Not could, would and it will happen. And what has the value of the pound against the dollar to do with their standard of living being higher? They pay higher taxes and higher prices for absolutely everything they want or need to buy. Their disposable income is less and with the exception of "free" health care (which is anything but), of which we have all heard nightmare stories, I don't see any examples of a quality of life that meets ours much less exceeds ours. Personally I think this is a propaganda piece to quiet the increasingly concerned people of Britain. Their country is not what it was, by a long shot, in the past. I was there and the differences are staggering. The story reminds me of Pravda in the 50's thru the 70's when they would show film footage of the dust bowl in the 1930's in the mid section of our country and tell their people this is what living in America was. They would show clips of isolated civil unrest and portray it as nationwide rioting and on and on.
Coincidence, that all of these articles proclaiming the US is dead last in the western world in everything, are coming out in an election year?
The poor are not working hard enough
*snort*
However the average British person may not feel richer than their US cousins as goods and services there are often vastly cheaper. So, despite earning less, the average American can buy more.
Uh...isn't that pretty much the definition of "standard of living?"