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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
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11 of the 15 aren't.
More pertinently, most of the worst countries are socialist.
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Well considering that the majority of the countries in the world aren't socialist, that would stand to reason wouldn't it? And which of the worst countries are socialist? I suppose you could stretch and call Greece and Portugal socialist, but Italy, Ireland, France, Spain, the UK, and the US certainly aren't. So you have on that list 22.6% of the countries are socialist, yet they make up 33% of the top-15 in debt:GDP; and 13.3% of the bottom-15. I don't think this necessarily demonstrates anything superior about socialism as their are obviously internal and cultural factors involved, but it kind of puts a dent into the whole "socialism always ruins the economy" mantra.