USA is world's best country

R1) Ranking My opponent lists many things—such as education and life expectancy. As noted, life expectancy is a poor metric of the country, and better metrics actually tell us that our healthcare is the best healthcare system in the world. He says we are lagging in education, but this is not really true. Those rankings distinguish differences on very subtle factors, and the differences are often a few hundredths of a percent. Countries also administer the tests differently which can skew the results. These rankings are unable to inform us as to whether or not our education system is bad. Overall, the differences are so small that the US is pretty much tied with other countries when it comes to these tests [1. . http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...]. R2) Shotgun argumentation My opponent utilizes shotgun argumentation, which is highly unethical. It is *impossible* for me to respond to all of these in in 10,000 characters. The vast majority of them—such as debt—proves my point. You DO NOT want to be first in debt—you want to be last. My opponent then concedes when it comes to debt we are significantly above average. My opponent claims we are only 13th in oil reserves, but this is totally incorrect. Our oil reserve has increases 60% since 2008. There are billions of undiscovered oil fields in the US. The US is soon going to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer [2. . http://en.wikipedia.org...]. Not only is the current rate important, but future growth—and we will surpass everyone. Who cares about soccer teams. Europe has better freedom of speech? EU courts are ruling that it is legal to remove google results for the simple reason of being outdated [3. . http://blogs.wsj.com...]. In the US, we allow the publication of Neo-Nazi propaganda and, to a lesser degree, hate speech. Europe bans both of these things. From a pure freedom point of view, the rights of the dumb extremists are being violated—thus, the US is the leader of free speech unlike my opponent suggests [4. . http://www.nytimes.com...]. To say we are the lowest on infrastructure investment is not a strong argument—we may not need new infrastructure at the time that statistic was taken. According to my opponent’s source, we are number one in both railway and roadway. We are also number 1 in airports [5. . https://www.cia.gov...]. So to say our infrastructure is bad is incorrect—it is actually the best! Being ranked poorly in Hepatitis vaccination is not really something America—as in the USFG—has control over. And again, you dropped (and thus conceded) that we have the best healthcare system in the world, something I established. How does one rate ‘honesty’? Seems subjective and a really poor indicator as to which country is the best. Our economy, according to my opponent’s source, the US is actually number 1 [5]. Income inequality is not a bad thing. It is if it is not productive, but our inequality is actually because someone has produced something—meaning it makes everyone richer. There is no relationship between income inequality and economic woes [6. . http://www.aei.org...]. This is a non-issue. My opponent says our GDP per capita is low, by a ranking of 12 is not bad. We do not have to be the best on every measure to be the best. IF we averaged a 12, but the next country averaged a 12.1 (even if their economy was better), we would be the best. Is my opponent willing to argue Qatar is better? Maybe he should move there. “Happy” is also subjective. It doesn’t make sense that we are ranked low on trade, when we are rated two on imports and three on exports [5]. Gold backing is irrelevant—we are not on a gold standard (thank god). I don’t see how women in or out of public offices are good or bad. It would be bad if we prohibited, but we don’t. It should be noted (sadly) that the next president will likely be a female—Mrs. Hillary Clinton. I responded to the majority, but again, it is impossible for me to respond in full. The use of shotgun argumentation should be given to me. == Dropped arguments == My opponent dropped my entire case. He thus concedes that the US has the best economy, lowest crime, best healthcare, lowest taxes, and best firearms policy. == Rankings (summary) == All of these rankings (or, many of them) use very subjective measurements. The education rankings pretty much tie the US with most other countries. Further, the US DOES NOT NEED TO BE #1 in everything in order for me to win. But I have proven, in most cases, we actually are—or are well above average. As we average extremely high, and no other country does this on as many measures as we do, we are the best country. Further, my opponent HAS NOT offered one superior country. Resolution strongly affirmed.