@Lennis - I don't believe many of those stats make us much greater. Foreign aid - when we stopped funding UNESCO simply because they felt Palestine needed help, I find disturbing. Billionaires - don't know if that's a good thing when half the population is poor or low income. Co2 emission - I agree this is good Patents - good I guess Worker productivity - when you have to live paycheck by paycheck just to survive, and you don't get anytime off, I'm not surprised we're the most productive. Personally, I wouldn't mind a drop in this category if our taxes provided paid vacations like some European countries have the benefit of. Legal immigrants - we might not be the greatest, but we are far from the worse. We have always had an open door when it comes to immigration, but we probably don't lead this category by much. Generosity - good
Don't get me wrong, I love this country, and I believe we were at one point the greatest country in the world. All countries have problems, we just got to work on fixing ours. When we created democracy, a lot of countries adopted it because it was better for their citizens, but over the years each country went their own ways and came up with some great ideas to better the living quality of their country. We can't be too proud to adopt ideas from other countries.
Foreign aid - when we stopped funding UNESCO simply because they felt Palestine needed help, I find disturbing.
Billionaires - don't know if that's a good thing when half the population is poor or low income.
Co2 emission - I agree this is good
Patents - good I guess
Worker productivity - when you have to live paycheck by paycheck just to survive, and you don't get anytime off, I'm not surprised we're the most productive. Personally, I wouldn't mind a drop in this category if our taxes provided paid vacations like some European countries have the benefit of.
Legal immigrants - we might not be the greatest, but we are far from the worse. We have always had an open door when it comes to immigration, but we probably don't lead this category by much.
Generosity - good
Don't get me wrong, I love this country, and I believe we were at one point the greatest country in the world. All countries have problems, we just got to work on fixing ours. When we created democracy, a lot of countries adopted it because it was better for their citizens, but over the years each country went their own ways and came up with some great ideas to better the living quality of their country. We can't be too proud to adopt ideas from other countries.