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We were Founded by a man who literally declined an offer to be the king for life.
We took on thee greatest military on earth with little more than squirrel rifles, and still won.
We are virtually undefeated in major and minor wars for our entire 240+ years of existence (with a pair of lame stalemates)
We have had no major battles on our soil for a century and a half.
The Industrial Revolution changed the world so much that our poor people today often live better than Kings and Emperors of 140 years ago.
More Americans died fighting to end slavery than any other nation.
More people have flocked to America for the chance at freedom and opportunity than every other nation combined in the last 160 years.
American culture has been incorporated in part or in whole by almost every nation on earth. Fast food, discos, Free Speech, jeans, etc etc etc. You'll hear lyrics in English in every nation on earth. You won't hear many lyrics in Korean or German or Chinese in America.
Helped save the content of Europe from its own self-destruction, twice.
10. The Bill of Rights is almost certainly the greatest advance for Freedom in human history.

The Marshall Plan clearly has proven to be a massive global upgrade from the Treaty of Versailles and the habit of punishing the defeated.
Penicillin and numerous other vaccines have saved untold lives across the globe.
Open Heart Surgery and organ transplants have saved untold lives across the globe.
Medical charity (Red Cross, Salvation Army, Doctors without Borders, etc etc etc) have saved untold lives across the globe.
Air conditioning has saved untold lives across the globe.
Electricity and the light bulb changed the face of the earth.
The telephone changed the face of the earth.
Aviation changed the face of the earth (and English remains the official language of all international air travel ).
The cell phone changed the face of the earth.
20. The internet is the greatest repository of knowledge ever known, and is accessible by even the poor in most of the world.

No nation has given more wealth to charity in the history of the planet.
Capitalism turned an economy that was on par with Belgium into the biggest engine for wealth creation in thee history of mankind.

22 isn't a bad start... keep it rolling!!!

1 posted on 08/15/2018 5:00:37 PM PDT by Teacher317
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Every man a sovereign unto himself.

The greatest gift ever to mankind - a direct consequence of the Judaeo/Christian religion.

2 posted on 08/15/2018 5:06:49 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Closed for repairs)
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America has the greatest Industrial might in the World.


3 posted on 08/15/2018 5:09:35 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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When I hear someone say that ‘America was never great’ my response is always “Compared to what?”

They usually don’t have an answer ready.


4 posted on 08/15/2018 5:10:13 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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We have the right to home school if we so choose, so as to avoid indoctrination and useless information in those prisons called public schools.

Not every country affords parents that option. Maybe most do not. The USA can be proud of that.


5 posted on 08/15/2018 5:21:02 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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We walked on the moon


6 posted on 08/15/2018 5:23:12 PM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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It’s liberals like Cuomo who don’t measure up and whose insecurity makes them attack greatness.


7 posted on 08/15/2018 5:28:26 PM PDT by Crucial
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Don’t need to preach to the choir. Just hope they run on this theme.


8 posted on 08/15/2018 5:29:08 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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23. Everyone wants to come here, legally or illegally. If it wasn’t so great, why would they try?


9 posted on 08/15/2018 5:29:19 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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We mopped up the tyrants in two world wars and re-built everything that was destroyed in the process. All accomplished by “The Greatest Generation!!!”


11 posted on 08/15/2018 5:33:01 PM PDT by SierraWasp (BLM = Black LIEs Matter!!! Used to be known as "Bureau of Land Management")
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This man has a political tin ear, and a understanding of America and its history that no one could envy.

“When the President speaks about making America great again - going back in time - he ignores the pain so many endured and that we suffered from slavery, discrimination, segregation, sexism and marginalized women’s contributions,””

Cuomo guarantees that his definition of “equality” may never be realized, because he does not define his version of “equality”. Does he mean equality of opportunity, or equality of outcome? The first we have always striven for, the second is obviously impossible and therefore ridiculous.

Add to that, he seems to require that we somehow “equalize” history, or revise it, by somehow redressing it with some sort of punishment of America and Americans. They used to call that process “affirmative action”, which was never an accurate term.

Better term might have been “political racial pandering” or “false demagogic promise-making”. The result of decades of this kind of political fraud, is the “political correctness” and “identity politics” we have suffered under when the Democrats were in power.

Finally, Cuomo’s criticism ignores all the efforts by so many Americans to create a reality out of “equality of opportunity”, like the Civil War, all the positive constitutional amendments to date, etc, etc. etc. He wishes to pretend that Utopia will somehow descend upon us all, someday, somehow, certainly under his reign. And New York will lead the way? The Democrats have destroyed every municipality they have ever governed. Maybe that is what he is so impatient to see be overcome, eh?


12 posted on 08/15/2018 5:33:09 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (So, this is the Third World! What happened to the first two?)
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Tell that to the Jews freed from Auschwitz Coumrade.
13 posted on 08/15/2018 5:38:20 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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Did Cuomo hire Obama’s Clarification Team ?


14 posted on 08/15/2018 5:38:50 PM PDT by butlerweave
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By the way... Isn’t the crackpot that said this the son of legal Italian immigrants who struggled to become CITIZENS of a country he now thinks “was never that great??? I wonder why we should even respond to this knucklehead... He’s as Ignorant as one of those poor rare and endangered Sucker fish in the lake at Klamath Falls, OR!!!


15 posted on 08/15/2018 5:43:45 PM PDT by SierraWasp (BLM = Black LIEs Matter!!! Used to be known as "Bureau of Land Management")
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23. We landed men and cars on the moon, because we could, and because humans needed to go there.

We haven’t claimed it as territory of the U.S..


16 posted on 08/15/2018 5:51:14 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Of course! Venezuela and Cuba are great you peasants!


17 posted on 08/15/2018 5:55:46 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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F’in commie POS.


19 posted on 08/15/2018 6:34:09 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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President Reagan brought down the Berlin Wall
Our farmers have changed the way that the world feeds itself
21 posted on 08/15/2018 7:24:48 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Cuomo set the bar at perfection (and a lib’s concept of perfection at that) for the USA to be truly great. Extremely lame.


22 posted on 08/15/2018 7:38:29 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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Bttt!


23 posted on 08/15/2018 9:03:57 PM PDT by Pagey (8 years of MISERY, Thanks to Valerie Jarrett. Wretched human.)
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America must be great. Only here could someone with a double-digit IQ and trouble speaking English be elected governor of NY.


27 posted on 08/16/2018 5:42:05 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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