Israel 1st In OECD Ranking Of Obsession With OECD Rankings

The OCD with the OECD outpaced countries that typically top the charts in all the other OECD measures.

Paris, November 3 – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its annual report on each member state’s level of dysfunctional attention to the organization’s ranking of each member state’s economic development indicators, and Israel sits atop the list for the fifth year in a row.

The 32-member OECD includes democratic countries with developed market economies, and serves as, among other things, a forum for those countries to discuss compare results of economic policies to maximize prosperity, given the similarities among such economies. Israeli media and quasi-governmental organizations once again propelled Israel to the top ranking in 2016 for obsession with every other set of OECD statistics regarding their country.

“It’s quite gratifying,” admitted Voice of Israel economic correspondent Michael Miro. “I spend most of my time discussing Israel’s place in the world economy relative to other OECD countries, and it’s a good feeling to see my efforts vindicated in the official statistics. Of course I can’t claim anywhere near all the credit – that goes to the Opposition politicians, the left-leaning pundits, and a slew of organizations that favor policies quite at odds with the notion of a free-market economy. It’s funny to see them obsess over these numbers as if they value what the OECD is about, when you know for a fact the first thing many of them would do if they held the economic reins is impose policies that would make Venezuela look like a capitalist paradise.”

The OCD with the OECD outpaced countries that typically top the charts in all the other OECD measures, by a significant margin. Norway, Finland, and Sweden, which typically lead the world in indicators of a robust economy and economically secure polity, trailed Israel in the OECD obsession statistics by 14%. Words of agonizing over OECD rankings, considered per capita, reached over 22,000 annually for Israel and just 8,000 for all the Scandinavian states combined.

Lawmakers from the left side of the political and social spectrum said the new rankings show how important their work remains for Israel’s status in the developed world. “We have to constantly find OECD statistics to cite, or to cherry-pick if necessary, if we ever want to make the case that the Likud is a disaster,” explained Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni. “Other countries such as Greece, Italy, or Spain may have the luxury of pointing to actual economic disaster or crippling political dysfunction, but Israel is relatively resource-poor, so we have to be more creative on that front. I’m happy to see we’re making real achievements in that arena.”

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