I mean, no nation can survive when they spend like this, and we could have actually cut health care costs a lot, without harming the industry other than INSURANCE, by HALF in the next 10 years, and at the same time given Americans a lot better care. Frankly, given how insane our diet is, I think with a rational system that helps people we could have cut a lot more cost than that, becuase the Europeans have a healthy diet to begin with!

So we are decadent, corrupt, really, corrupt, I guess...this is what happens to empires, right? The leaders become rich, arrogant, selfish, corrupt, greedy? Isn't that the usual recipe?