Happy Birthday America.

For those who sneer at the thought of U.S. exceptionalism, we refer you to the cold facts that America is the first Nation conceived in freedom, and her free-market capitalist economy is the engine that drives the global economy.

We’ve given more (gov’t & business) economic aid to foreign countries, and helped more nations achieve sovereignty, than all other nations of the world combined.

Not bad for a Nation whose GDP represents over 30% of the global GDP, while using less than 18% of global energy resources!

(And we won’t even mention our direct influence over other nation’s GDP.)

America – you are Beautiful…

…and your detractors are uneducated, rabble-rousing louts.