New Hampshire is clearly a better place to live based upon your reasoning. We exceed MA in many of the key metrics you site. For example, we have fewer cancer related deaths (just like Georgia, did you read that chart correctly?). In places where MA is better than NH, the difference is negligible. For example, the $900 more the median MA citizen is making in income, the median NH citizen is saving in taxes.

Taxes gets us to the next point. We have fewer taxes than Massachusetts by far. In fact, other than meal tax, there is no direct tax on people that do not own property. (And although I’m sure the landlords are getting the property tax through rent, I left MA for cheaper rent in a nicer neighborhood in NH, which enabled me to buy my house in NH years before my friends that stayed in MA.)

This ruins your conclusion. NH is clearly as good or better than MA based upon your simple method of reasoning. However, NH has managed to do it without having such a high tax burden.

The truth is, the real difference isn’t how much you tax, but who you tax and how many you need to spend it on. If we have a Federal health plan, the median person in MA, NH, CA, NY, NJ, etc… (i.e. the blue states) will all be taxed more than the median person in GA, AL, MI, LA, etc… (i.e. the red states). Just keep that in mind.

Also keep in mind who you are arguing with. de Dough is a product of the education system you already berated. He and many of his constituents believe they are still fighting the Red Plague from the 50′s. There is only one real argument to make:

The United States of America has a worse health care system than France! The French health care system is #1. France is BETTER than US. The French are better than you. France is better than America. French Health Care Rulez!!11!! America suxor at #37. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Morocco and other countries with a tendency to incubate the worlds future terrorists all have BETTER health care than the all mighty US.

That makes my blood boil. It should make lots of Americans angry. At least get people angry enough to wonder how/why France could be better and question if there is maybe some way for the nation that sends people to the moon to figure out how to beat a bunch of sissy Frenchies at the health care game. ;-)

The only other argument worth making is:

Who benefits from private health care? Do you own stock in one of the insurance providers and/or pharmaceutical companies? NO! Then you are not getting anything!!!

Even if you are a doctor or nurse, you are a fool if you believe you will make less money under public health care. Only big business will loose money under public health care. Even the pharmaceutical companies will not go out of business under public health care; it certainly will not deter them from attempting to find newer, better cures for all that ails the world.

I’ve also felt an odd enjoyment when conservatives attack my home-town, Chicago, for its corruption and/or Democratic nature and/or racial politics etc. etc.

It really makes me smile.

They should make coasters for Georgia theme parks:
“The Mass Turnpike”,
“The Jamaicaway”,
“Saugus”.

Who the hell has been overfeeding Georgia again?

How can it be a prison if you CHOOSE to live there?

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.

Next.

“McMansions” are a triumph of American capitalism and industry, and a gereat economic value for the consumer as well. And most people freely choose to live in them when they can afford it.

No wonder leftists hate them!

No, the problem is a lot of folks who freely chose to live in them when they couldn’t afford them(YouTube link)

LEESBURG, Virginia (Reuters) – Million-dollar fixer-upper for sale: five bedrooms, four baths, three-car garage, cavernous living room. Big holes above fireplace where flat-screen TV used to hang.

The U.S. housing crisis has come to McMansion country.

Just as the foreclosure crisis has hollowed out poorer neighborhoods, “for sale” signs are sprouting in upscale developments so new they don’t show up on GPS navigation screens.

Poor people weren’t the only ones who took out risky, high-interest loans during the housing boom. The sharp increase in housing costs — and the desire to live in brand-new, spacious houses with modern features — led many affluent buyers to take out loans they couldn’t afford.

“People had in their head, ‘I need a mud room, I need giant columns, I need a media room, and I’m going to do anything to get it,”‘ said Robert Lang, co-director of Virginia Tech’s Metropolitan Institute, a research organization that focuses on real estate and development.

We’re down in Mississippi territory there, typically.

However, in numbers of beavers per capita we’re probably in the top ten.

I’m writing to Gov. Patrick and suggesting a limited beaver hunt to fund our community colleges.

win/win, unless you’re a limited beaver.

Don’t live here too. It’s racist as fuck.

No they aren’t.

They are inwardly directed, overly large and poorly designed pieces of crap built using shoddy materials and quick and dirty methods, that fall apart far before their mortgage is retired, that use resources, greenfields, and energy far out of proportion to their actual utility.

The fact that people buy them only indicates the lack of alternatives in the modern housing market.

Don’t throw your shit over here where I’m working, fella.

I disagree. Zombie hate literature, zombie snuff is all that is.

Despicable. I shan’t be back.

“We’re healthy and educated!”
“UR DOIN IT WRONG!”

(Scardey-cat, cut-and-paste, pants-shitting troll is scardily pasting and cutting. Pants-shittingly.)

Are you suggesting crime is hereditary?