Australia is a better place to live than the USA.

Sure sounds like awful statistics,... However if you were truly able to PROVE that Australia is a better place to live than the USA because the USA has these "issues" than would you truly believe that if everyone in the USA were to pull up and move to Australia that Australia would be able to "cure" and not inherit these negative U.S. "traits??" The topic of THIS debate is simple,.. Australia is a better place to live? For whom,.. Australians? Or is it a better place to live for all the world population that decides to move to another nation? In which case, unless you are able to prove otherwise, you wouldnt be able to prove if Australia would not inherit negative traits. My previous round points simply stated that despite the USA having these major cultural, economic, social, political differences compared to any other nation including Australia,.. pound for pound, the USA out ranks Australia in nearly every category!! Now on to counter a few of you points,.. "Actually no, having a population 15 times ours makes it much easier to have a larger GDP. You have much better production capacity due to your population, hence more ease to produce...so on and so forth" You certainly could not blame the larger GDP on population,.. The great plains states of the USA produce nearly 40% of the worlds food!! Thats means the USA is global leader in agriculutre exports. To add just another perspective,.. 1 pound of every 3 pounds of pork eaten in the WORLD was produced in the USA! We also incredibly outweigh the rest of the planet in nearly every technology,.. ALL SATELLITES IN ORBIT ARE USA PROPERTY! Think about that one! But I could easily go on and on about the possitives of the USA as well as the negatives,... however that would not prove or disprove my stance on the topic of this debate, nor does it my opponent! I will now take on my opponents claims,... "This does not take into account at all the distribution of wealth amongst the populace. For instance, the USA has over 400 billionaires while Australia has just 12. This makes the GDP per capita argument rather weak." How does the GDP PPP index I listed show to be weak because the USA has the most millionares and billionaires in the world? LOL,.. an average is exactly what it is,... an average! Not only that but I only have to prove why Australia is not a better place to live than the USA! And my opponents above statement only proves my point! The USA encourages entreprenuership as well as allows an individual the easiest ways to become wealthy, which is a wonderful characteristic describing why the USA is a better place to live! In Australia a citizen only has a .0000006% shot of becoming a billionare,... in the USA a citizen has a .0000013% shot at becoming a billionare! Pretty dang good considering that the USA has the most cultural and social diversity, as well as 15 times the population of Australia. "- The United States is 49th in the world in literacy - The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy" These facts still prove nothing,... Australia and the USA still show a tie of 99% literacy. The only difference is that the USA has 15 times the population as well as USA having languages of English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7%. Making "educational barriers" more frequent in the USAs' education system that must be overcome. "- Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005). - The International Adult Literacy Survey...found that Americans with less than nine years of education 'score worse than virtually all of the other countries'." I was un able to find anything to back up those claims of my opponents,.. so I will just point out the INCREDIBLE CLAIM that 37% of the U.S. population actually believes those things,.. and than I laugh at the thought of actually being able to carry such a survey with at all any accuracy!! An incredible and weak point perhaps "researched" with very poor effort by one with a clear agenda backing any attempt of "journalistic integrity," that silly magazine wishes to have!! Absolute rubbish and very weak of my opponent to try to pass that along as factual evidence,..lol! Obviously one would score less if only nine or less years of education,... what does that prove! Perhaps Australia has the smartest dumb people,.. congrats! "- Lack of health insurance coverage causes 18,000 unnecessary American deaths a year (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005.)" USA is not socialist,.. USA is true individual freedoms,.. everyone has the power to be as rich or as poor as they wish! "unnecessary" deaths are a foolish idea, as the USA laws state no health professional can deny treating patients in immediate health risk. Your NYT article is claiming that the 18,000 deaths of those people were unnecessary because they didn't have health insurance,.. when common sense says it was the illness that killed them! In the USA EVERYONE has the right to work hard, study, and work towards bettering themselves and their standard of living! "- The leading cause of death of pregnant women in the USA is murder" "- Nearly 900,000 children were abused or neglected in 2002, the last year for which such data are available" Hmmm,... Australia is not so perfect or innocent as well!! -41% of men reported experiencing an assault since the age of 15 and 5% experienced sexual assault in this time. -29% of women experienced assault and 17% experienced sexual assault since the age of 15. Overall, almost half (46%) of men and women reported having experienced an assault and/or sexual assault since the age of 15. These are facts not found in a newspaper column but from the actual Australian govt. website, Australias criminology dept. www.aic.gov!! Since the topic of this debate or platforms are to prove quality of LIFE, I fail to see how someone dies in the USA effects the quality of ones life up to their death! Considering that nealry half of Australians are assaulted and largely sexually assaulted,.. I would say those crimes effect quality of LIFE more so than the USA! "The United States has lost 1.3 million jobs to China in the last decade (CNN, Jan. 12, 2005). - U.S. employers eliminated 1 million jobs in 2004 (The Week, Jan. 14" The USA unemployment rate is still the lowest of most nations and nearly deadlocked with Australias 4.4% and 4.6%!! The USA also still boasts a 2.2% annual GDP growth rate despite 7 years of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, droughts, 200 year flood, two wars in the past, high production costs, high fuel, and Australians! oh, and USAToday says 2,280,000 jobs were ADDED! "Twelve million American families--more than 10 percent of all U.S. households--"continue to struggle, and not always successfully, to feed themselves." Families that "had members who actually went hungry at some point last year" numbered 3.9 million" 12,000,000 people is only 4% of the population of the USA,.. 3.9 million hungry people equals is 1% of USA,... say USA has a poverty rate around 5% based on those figures,... Australia has a poverty rate according to the Melbourne Institute (college, not newspaper,) of nearly 13 %,.. 15% of children live below the poverty line, and 22% of single parent homes live in poverty!!! These figures are backed also by Australian Council of Social Services!! The most I could find of the USA was a mere 5.3% of USA below the poverty line! "One-third of all U.S. children are born out of wedlock. One-half of all U.S. children will live in a one-parent house" USA divorce rate: 45.8% Australia divorce rate: 46% Australia 30% birth out of wedlock! www.divorcemag.com