Norway - Voted best place to live

This ranking by UN is interesting. A lot of Norway's prosperity seems to be because the government owns the oil industry. I find it interesting that Iraq's only hope for any standard of living for its own people is oil and Bu$hco and his buddies want to privatize it. What if US made it's oil a national resource? Better way to pay debt than mortgaging the next three generations. And while we are at it, the airwaves belong to the people too - that would bring in tons of cash too.