America's Richest & Poorest States vs. G7 Countries....

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Washington DC needs to broken up and what's left of it distributed to the states. Too many greased palms there forming a cabal.

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K Street

frick what Obama started with DC. The only place in the country that makes nothing and lives on the tax money of the rest of the country. They should be doing the bidding of the people at modest salaries.

That graph shows me that our states would fair just fine globally as independent nations

And those are some of the most industrialized first world countries

Even lowly poor little Mississippi dominates 90% of the world

We lack perspective in this country. Always have

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That graph shows me that our states would fair just fine globally as independent nations

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Texas would be the 9th largest economy on the planet and it's still growing. Energy, tech, agriculture, and shipping. We have it all.

Using the old C+I+G+(E-I) model, I’d love to see how DC’s “GDP” is broken down. What do they actually produce?

The U.S. is incredibly wealthy. You don’t realize it until you visit elsewhere

The shittiest rural towns of 5,000 people in the U.S. have far more modern comforts and levels of development than similar size towns/villages in almost any other nation. Canada and Australia are about the only two that are similar in this way. Everything we have is bigger and more luxurious. European nations have tiny cars and live in cramped apartments, flats, duplexes or small homes. Nowhere has the suburban lifestyle the U.S. does with middle class people owning 3,000 square foot homes and big SUVs.

White South Africans come here to work on delta farms and new ones are always amazed at the huge expensive machinery the average farmer owns, the size of the farms, and the fact we let some crackhead 8 dollar an hour employee operate million dollar machinery and drive a truck worth more than their entire family’s net worth back home

We’ve heard the Mississippi thing forever. We as a state are the poorest in the country but we are wealthier than five of the G8.

I am sitting in Madison, Mississippi, 30 minutes from the poorest people in the country (Holmes County. I use the same phone and computer as billionaires. I can have groceries delivered to my home within a couple hours.

Most people in this country have no perspective. You don’t have to be a world traveler.

How does DC have GDP any greater than zero?