Thursday, July 06, 2006

What's great about America?

The US used to have a great comparative advantage in areas such as the overall standard of living, the size of government, political freedom and individual rights.

We are no longer the wealthiest people. Governments at every level, from federal to village are increasingly imposing and enforcing their power on individuals. Our political system is more and more corrupt as the '2-party system' offers zero-choice on most issues that count. We still have some advantage in some individual rights area such as the ability to bear very small arms (body armor is expressly verboten) and the ability to speak on more issues than most people in the rest of the world can.

So... what's still great about America? Very little at this time.

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