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Originally Posted by dickiej
Soooooo....I repeat....what makes America the greatest country on earth right now.? It's such a foolish statement to say " move". My family is here, my job...my life. Besides, I love America...its just not the greatest country on earth anymore.
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Sounds like you remembered (or just watched again in your quarantine) this scene and are drawing from it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs (Newsroom scene, we've all seen it)
I'll bite though.
1. Name another country you can go out and be wildly successful when you start with little or nothing. We have more examples than I need for my case. Bezos, Gates, Jobs, Buffet, Obama (just for you) you get it. Can you name another country with even close to the same # ? We lead and innovate industry and have for some time.
2. The countries you love all have absurd tax rates (Western Europe average ~ 40-60% top rate, plus higher rates on goods/services). Universal health care comes at an expense, it's not free as you're blue/socialist friends would have us believe. It very well might be free to you but to those of us that pay for it it's going to cost plenty. Our tax bill won't be far behind Europe if universal income for all and universal healthcare happens.
3. We still subsidize the world, giving almost more than 50% more than the next closest country, which is of course the UK. Individual countries aid aside the WHO is a case in point. NATO another. Luckily we're stopping that, but I'm sure you appreciate the philanthropy.
4. If our education is so bad why does everyone from the world around come here for schooling? Why do foreign leaders and the wealthy come here for healthcare? Maybe because it's the best? And don't say it's not accessible, because it is, I know quite a few medicare only insured going to Mass General.
5. The freedom to do what you are doing - enjoying freedom by saying derogatory things about your home country. It's your right, but I think we all agree we were the greatest for a long time, and if you want to say we aren't anymore fine. But we can be the greatest again (heh)
So while I could go on I won't, I will just say if you know of a better country let me know, maybe I'll move as well.