98% photo of Australia meme and Govt. nanny is good.

[RonPaulFanInGA]

According to heritage.org, Australia enjoys the world's 3rd freest economy in 2012, behind Hong Kong and Singapore respectively.

The US ranks #10.

That ranking means squat if what she wrote is true.

It's also easier when you don't have millions of third world peasants in poverty flooding in from a neighboring country.

 

[Cabal]

That ranking means squat if what she wrote is true.

It's also easier when you don't have millions of third world peasants in poverty flooding in from a neighboring country.

I imagine she left out quite a bit of the fine details given all the points made on a single piece of paper.

 

[BSWPaulsen]

Not our fault the USA way over spends on defence. I would argue that defence spending is way over hyped in modern society. Australia is not about to be invaded anytime soon.

That it isn't, nor is it your fault for taking advantage of it. Kind of like corporations here in the USA taking advantage of the State to monopolize their interests are hardly to be blamed. Australia is just another recipient of US welfare.

However, it would appreciably change your government's finances should the US quit playing the protector, and would be an area to address given China's desire to expand its sphere of influence in the region. Military spending is more of a drain than anything else (taxes going to be paid for something that is unlikely to be used, but a failure to have lessens regional influence to such a degree as to make one easy prey). Nobody ever really wants a military until they need a military, and by that point it is already too late.

 

[idiom]

Australians are huge nanny-staters. Not just in government control terms, they actually like have huge amounts of rules on everything.

I tried running a business there, but there was sooo much paperwork I closed it and moved back to New Zealand.

Its a lot better than the U.S. though. Your business isn't going to be successfully sued because somebody deliberately lit one of your products on fire and killed themselves with it.

I have no idea how the United states is still ranked 10th.