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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 1865817" data-attributes="member: 1132">This. We're perilously close to losing that highly coveted crown. Not sure what's going to replace the dollar, but it will suck for us regardless of what it is. We have the most powerful (and expensive) war machine in the world. Sadly, rather than use it for defense, we routinely use it for expeditionary wars that further erode our credibility on the world stage. U.S. Health Care is exorbitantly over-valued and we're pricing ourselves right out of it. We refuse to train enough doctors and over the top malpractice insurance has put many more out of business. Incareration of non-violent citizens is the highest in the free world. We continue to fuel the drug wars with no end in sight. Education? Half of those graduating high school can't make change or balance a checkbook. They go on to the diploma mills to get a worthless degree that won't get them a job, but plenty of non-dischargeable debt. They can recite dozens of useless facts that have no bearing on their survival in the world though! We don't have a cohesive energy policy and we have NO plan for reducing our enormous debt. We continue to erode our own freedoms daily in exchange for a false sense of security. Is there a greater nation that the U.S.? I don't really know. Is the U.S. as great as it was 10, 20, 30 years ago? Not even close. This isn't the U.S. I grew up in. As for my future, I don't see myself being able to afford retirement in my own country. Cuenca, Ecuador and Panama are looking better and better as I get closer to retirement. <img src="/images/smilies/frown.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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