Long,
Here is a short list of your mistakes:
1) The United States Federal Government is
not flush with cash. It is broke. It takes
in less money than it spends. It owes mutual
funds, bond holders, and Japanese investors
almost 6 trillion dollars, or about $20,000
dollars for every American man, woman, and
child.
2) The best measure of a nations wealth is
its Gross Domestic Product or GDP, as most
economists like to call it. In the latest
study, the United States ranked 31st out of
169 nations. Some nations such as Norway for
example, actually have a GDP about 30% higher
than the United States.
3) Other measures of a Nations Wealth that
are often used are literacy, infant mortality,
military strength, and access to clean water.
Of these, we are about average for industrial
nations in Europe and Asia for #1, and #4.
However, we rank near the bottom with infant
mortality. The only thing we hold a supreme
advantage over all other industrial nations
is our military power. With that, there simply
is no second in our ability to wage war on any
part of this earth. I suppose that might just
be why the President of the United States now
prefers to simply bomb people as opposed to
negotiate with them, after all, with that measure
of strength, that is our ace in the hole, so
to speak.
-John
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