Marty wrote:
Stephen Trapani wrote:
Marty wrote:
Stephen Trapani wrote:essels for the USCG
without getting so much as a usable dinghy.

It's so depressing to watch. Even worse to be paying for.

I do not envy you on that - what a pity for such a wonderful land.

All that and still the best country in the world.

In your eyes, not in a good many others.

No, not in my eyes, objectively, by any reasonable measure.

Not according the UN, or many other studies. Tell me that your life
expectancy is the longest in the world, that you have the lowest rate of
infant mortality, that you have the highest rate of literacy, that you
have the greatest percentage of population with decent health care, that
you have the lowest rate of violent crime on the planet, that you have
the lowest rate of recidivism, that you have the most civil liberties,
that you have the most open government.... the list is huge.

Put it all together, along with economic freedoms, climate, quality of
life, etc, etc, and the US is number one, like it's been for a long time.

Stephen