[sssilver]

Only <4x as much as Germany.

I'd argue that at that scale, if you can make a system work for 80 million people, you can probably make it work for 300.

[ZenoArrow]

Plus the US has got over 4x the GDP of Germany ($17,418,925 vs. $3,859,547, according to an IMF report from 2014), so it's not like it can't afford it, sufficient funds exist in the system.

[ZenoArrow]

P.S. Numbers I provided before are missing a few zeros, as you might've guessed. ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...