prediction : culture : WHO HAS/WILL HAVE THE SUPERIOR ECONOMY? [+] ballot by Cathexis created Wed Nov 17, 04 After adding 10 new Eastern and Central European nations in May of 2004, the European Union now has a much larger population than the United States, and a slightly bigger economy. As Jeremy Rifkin argues in his book The European Dream, the United States remains ahead in per-capita GDP ... but the difference is not as significant as it looks. Much of American (quote-unquote) productivity, Rifkin suggests, is accounted for by economic activity that might be better described as wasteful: military spending; the endlessly expanding police and prison bureaucracies; the spiraling cost of healthcare; suburban sprawl; the fast-food industry and its inevitable corollary, the weight-loss craze. Meaningful comparisons of living standards, he says, consistently favor the Europeans. In France, for instance, the work week is 35 hours and most employees take 10 to 12 weeks off every year, factors that clearly depress GDP. Yet only the most macro-economic Puritans can assert that France is worse off as a nation for all that time people spend in the countryside downing Cabenet and Camembert with friends and family. Do you believe that the EU economy has/will eclipse(d) that of the US, with current trends? U.S. has and will have superior economy U.S. has superior economy, but E.U. will have it. E.U. has and will have superior economy The E.U. has superior economy, but U.S. will have it. Neither Other (comment) Ballot #58949 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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