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We were freer which is why despite not working harder or being smarter the world owes us everything fr turning medical care into an actual science to ending mankind’s all time’s greatest killer famine. The US has put a halt to war in Northern and Western Europe for 80yrs. Enabling Romans and Parisians to live to 80yo without being warred on for the first time in a long time.

US is responsible for 45% of all new medical: drugs,procedures and equipment. It is 5% of every US HC bill and subsidizes every other HC system on earth.

I look around-flat screen. cell, computer chip, microwave not one thing descends from anywhere but the USA-most of it fr the DoD budget.

7.7 billion non Americans on earth and their collective contributions in recent generations to my life don’t exist.

All excellent points, Freest Republic, but may I point out the most-subtle service rendered by the U.S. since WWII (made possible by our geopolitical ascendence, fuelled by the status of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency, thus enabling us to fund our military)?

The U.S. Navy polices the world's sea lanes!

This ensures rel. free trade and is more responsible than anything else for the unparalleled levels of internat'l commerce (vulgo: economic globalization) and thus PROSPERITY we see today.

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