Comments by "EarthSurferUSA" (@EarthSurferUSA) on "What Makes America Different? | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. Mr Nick Adams: (6000 posts, and he will see this one?): You are on the right track with the reality of results. But you did not mention the philosophies and principles that created the USA in the first place, to be able to do all those great things you mention. Before the USA the world was run by some kind of state, (tyrants overwhelmingly), or some kind of religion, (or a combination), ruling over other rational men, who came from the other side of the tracks, (generalization),---called " Subjects", (Not citizens), as if some kind of social experiment. Then a Philosopher named Aristotle, who first realized that individual humans can reason for themselves,---and natural law was born, (law based on the human nature to '"reason", developed by those wound could reason a law for all and not hinder human nature for any). It took a while, but other philosophers found the same, (varying a bit), to start to for a more free areas in Europe, then especially the USA, when reason rejected the rule of a monarchy. What made the USA the most prosperous and civil nation the Earth has ever seen is, it was "exceptionally" founded on the philosophies of INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY protected by law, and the free market belonging to the citizens, (It is called communism when government takes over industries that we built,--health care for the blatant example). The best in Europe had come here because they had more freedom to do their work also. It was called "The Brain Drain" of Europe. Individual liberty and the free market owned by the citizens, (with a streamlined court system that protects individual liberty). That is what creates a civil and prosperous society. We are friends when we trade with money. We are enemies when we trade with blood.
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  2. Oh yes, sorry outsider, but people did not come here to fail. They came here to succeed in a dynamic free market full of life. Sure, those who did not use reason very well failed, and were on a longer learning curve. But my first business was a success. "Work smart---not hard", (another old American popular saying). Only in the USA with free market opportunity. Without the free market and people chasing their dreams with it, you only have government jobs, and the rest starve. Then the government workers starve, after the word "profit" has been eliminated from our vocabulary.
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  3. I am not sure if it was good for me or bad for not paying attention, (in state public school), until I paid for my own education while working full time, (college, 3 degrees in manufacturing, self paid, now self employed). Don't think other nations people are so smart though. They pretty much have the same teachers.
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