[sillygeese]

> America is the greatest economic engine the world has ever known. It's not because we're situated on a mountain of rubies, or that we are intellectually superior to other countries.

> It's because of our system of government.

No, it's because of the relative freedom you enjoyed in the past. Strangely enough, the less of the fruits of people's labour you forcefully take away from them, the more motivated they are to produce.

The easier it is to do business, the more business will be done. Go figure.

There's a reason people were flocking to America from all over the world, and it wasn't to get horribly oppressed by filthy capitalist "Robber Barons".