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Reflexively saying "The US has the best everything in the world" is what will bring it down eventually. There are plenty of areas the US is way behind.

It's like when I applied for a mortgage back in 2007 and the mortgage people told me incredibly silly things, like, "take a balloon mortgage and get a bigger house, real estate always goes up!". Real estate was considered too big to fail and too certain to go wrong.

I was smart enough to realize how stupid that was. Just not savvy enough to draw the line to seeing that I should short the market...

As a former colleague of mine was fond of saying: "The United States offers the best justice system money can buy."

My friends who have sat on juries and grand juries would gag at that thought. The way criminal trials work for the poor is a sham.

The way criminal trials work for the poor is a sham.

That might be true, but that does not mean that the system referenced isn't the best we've got at the moment.