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All the computer nerds that sit around me at work are constantly talking about DS. I'm like 'Guys please talk about something else."

The United States might have been a super power for the past two hundred years or so, but everybody else is gradually catching up. The United States is not the superpower it once was. Our capitalist society has such a high standard of living, because we're doing so at the expense of others. In regards to the population, the U.S. is using an unproportional amount of resources. Now as other countries are rising up in terms of power and influence, they'll want the same amount of resources we do. What is the U.S. going to tell them? No? Do you think they'll take that answer? This system seemed great when we were the clear-cut number one in the world; you can't pretend we still are. If you look at health care patterns all over the world, in most developed countries the government programs pay more than 70 percent of health care costs, and individuals pay less than 30 percent. In contrast, individuals in the least developed countries pay more than half of the cost of health care. The United States, however, follows closely the pattern of the least developed countries where most individuals are required to pay 55 percent of health care. That's not going to cut it if we want to continue being a super power. Yes, because Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands are all poor. They all have some sort of government funded health care program, including universal health care... and guess what? They are some of the richest countries in the world. Government funded health care is not synonymous with being poor.