Solon: Seriously, an OCED Study? Come on. I said “politically neutral” studies. You might as well as offer official EU numbers. Cost per GDP alone does not cut it either.

You have no given proof at all for your assertions. And what do you mean, by saying we cannot establish relative performance levels? Of course we can. More to the point, if you cannot do this, then your figures are meaningless.

Here you are merely attempting a sort of “sympathetic magic”. Do not use some sort of “technocrat econ-o-speak” parlance and then not be able to back it up with anything real.

You are just indugling in rhetoric here and nothing else.