[vpintheak]

Well we are still the #1 Capitalist nation on the planet, and that isn't going to change any time soon. What was the last invention out of Europe, or any other place for that matter. USA still rocks, we just have to use a heavy hand against "The Enemy Within."

[valkyrieanne]

Well we are still the #1 Capitalist nation on the planet, and that isn't going to change any time soon. What was the last invention out of Europe, or any other place for that matter. USA still rocks, we just have to use a heavy hand against "The Enemy Within."

Other than Israel, we have the largest number of patents granted - the largest number of Nobel Prize winners - obvious military superiority. Did all those brilliant people go to private schools? I think not. Check out the admissions statistics for "the best" universities, at least the difficult ones - the vast majority of those kids come from public schools. No, they're not from the public schools featured on nightly news reports about "failing schools."

[Killing Time]

"What was the last invention out of Europe, or any other place for that matter."

World Wide Web? (British physicist at CERN)