Friday, November 10, 2006

Norway on top of the world--literally AND figuratively

Has the whole world gone CRAZY? The U.S. isn't the best place to live on the planet?!? Check out this news item from the United Nations Development Program:

The United Nations ranked Norway as the best country to live in for a sixth consecutive year yesterday.

Oil-rich Norway, with its generous welfare state, topped the UN Development Program's human development index, based on such criteria as life expectancy, education and income.

Iceland was No. 2, followed by Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Canada, Japan and the United States.


I guess ridding your country of homelessness, poverty, and hunger actually makes people HAPPIER! Gee! And here we are focusing all our attention on... well, I'll just say that we haven't been focused on solving homelessness, poverty, and hunger.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Who has time for complex issues like homelessness? Britney and Kevin are getting divorced! Now that is important.