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Re:The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen... by karamazov on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @10:40PM (#7021527)
The entirety of the US is more comparable to Europe as a whole than to any individual European country.
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Re:The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen... by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @05:32AM (#7022741)
Indeed. There's an extreme inequality of quality of life and public services, and it shows up in statistics.

For instance, taken individually, Massachusetts has a higher Human Development Index than the fabled social-democratic paradise of Norway.

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