Jay, nothing is free. You say you have "free" healthcare.
Somebody is paying for it, and probably paying more than they really should.
As far as all the things you go on about, (and I have been there) Hong Kong isn't even close to the US. It was, for a time, but the change is taking a toll.
Things here in the US are great. I can't think of one thing to complain about, not even health care. I don't consider health care a right...it's a responsibility. Aside from catastrophic care (which, by the way, is free here BY LAW), everything about your health is pretty much up to YOU to take care of. If you don't, why should the system support bad habits (smoking, drinking to excess, eating to excess, not exercising)?
By the way, you're wrong about how the multiplier effect on foreign ownership works. Which country has the highest level of foreign ownership of its economy? Canada...yet they believe that they live better than US citizens in most cases.
Which country has the highest level of ownership outside its country? Holland. I think if you question them, they'd have the same things to say...
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