We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population…. we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment …
… a rich nation always defends itself badly.
If anything, the genuine human struggles in 'Sicko' raise questions about our society that run much deeper than what passes for political discourse today. Why does such a rich nation let people suffer and die without health care?
Our nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty.
There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.
Especially in a rich nation, there is absolutely no reason why everyone couldn't and shouldn't have a life of dignity.
No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'