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The US should be number 1, but they've let shit slide.
- Health care is better in most western countries for the average person than in the US. Mostly in the sense most citizens in western nations have full access to health care. In the US of course, this is not so. I'm more than sure the US has the best medical facilities, doctors, training etc. It's just a shame such a massive percentage of Americans will never have access to it.
- Less violent crime in most other western countries. Some NRA types will nickel and dime me on some twisted statistics but ask anyone where they'd feel safest living. I doubt anybody with reasonable travel experience would name any US cities.
- More religious = more primitive. The percentage of non religious people in western nations is growing fast, and for a good, scientific reason. In many large parts of the US this is not true.
- Dirty ass streets. Americans like to litter it seems. Either that or they don't have the money to clean it up, and that should say something if true. Or the fact they are litterbugs is at least indicative of a lack of education somewhere along the line, or even lack of pride in ones neighbourhood, or city or country even, and then you have to ask why that is.
- Education system too US centric. Take out most of that boring ass, useless civil war history and replace it with world geography and more emphasis on a foreign language. Should be sending US citizens globe trotting for friends and pursuing peaceful business opportunities, not just as soldiers protecting archaic energy management systems or dumb tourists at English only resorts looking like assholes. I know non Brit Europeans who speak better English than I do, and thats on top of their mother language and often a third or fourth to go with it. Who do you think makes the contacts and gets the better business when they're able to speak the languages of that many more markets?
The US has the resources to be number one, and it would be nice to see it happen, but they can't do this if they always think they are number 1 when they no longer are. They need something to strive against. No nation is perfect, but these days there are a number of countries closer to it than the US is. America is a big, beautiful country, much of it with beautiful weather and a lot of good people to go with it. It's a real shame the government has been resting on its laurels for so long it hasn't realized they're no longer on top. Americans are being sold short and its kind of sad to watch.
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