The United States is in fact, the greatest nation in the world.

There is surely no reluctance among proponents to argue that one that has the most, wins the most, is the most popular in terms of ever increasing amount of patrons, is the largest or among the largest, is of the most quality, gives the most, produces the most, is the richest, the strongest, the fastest, etc etc,.. and conquers all such things the largest majority of the time, IS and should be considered the greatest. Though several people argue that "greatness" is subjective, or of personal opinion,.. "greatness" can and is proven all the time. Greatness, or great, can be used and proven. You couldn't surely argue that 10 is not a greater number than 8, for 8 is a lesser number than 10,.. even in golf, although it is greater to ones chance at winning in golf if one has a score of 8 rather then 10,.. this, however, does not change the fact that 10 is greater than 8. I am simply going state all of the particular characteristics or sytems that all nations hold, and state evidence that displays how the USA is greater when compared to all other nations in the same characteristic or system the larger majority of the time,.. making it in fact greater. I will for the most part use the European Union statistics rather than each individual nation unless to otherwise prove more points. Now to take on my opponents points,.. "industry and technology. America is not the overwhelming champion in either of these categories. America has exported many simple and medium complicated industries to other countries, leaving mostly service and high input industries behind. Now, some may feel this is a good thing, but by sending industries abroad, our country has now eliminated the potential for innovation in them because we no longer deal with them. Those innovations are left to other countries, meaning we have set the stages for training our competitors. Speaking more of industry, America's steel industry has only recently become competitive in the world because of the declining value of our dollar. America's financial industries have job suffered a severe contraction from fraud and under-regulation. America even sends our complicated production to other countries for assembly, creating more ways for our country to lose our competitive edge." I will simply give of the real statistics, contradicting my opponents above paragraph,... The world's largest Automobile Company GM The world's largest Software Co. Microsoft The world's largest search engine Google The world's largest Oil company Exxon The world's largest Airospace Co Boeing The world's largest retailer Walmart The world's largest Computer maker HP The world's largest IT Company IBM The world's largest Bank Citibank The world's largest Sport Co NIKE The world's largest Electric co GE ... this is just to name a few of American owned and operated companies that have certainly NOT lost "competitve edge." The world's largest Bank CitiBank The world's largest Investment Bank GoldmanSachs The world's largest Insurance Co. AIG The world's largest Aircraft Leasing Co. ILFC The world's largest Accounting firm PwC The world's largest Credit Card Co. VISA (99% of Europeans use USA credit card companies,..hmm.) The world's largest Stock Exchange NYSE The world's largest Central Bank The Fed The world's largest money transfer Co Western Union ... American owned and operated financial institutes seemingly unwaivered from " fraud and under regulation." One can point several recent economic struggles and tell of the woes the USA is facing,.. however, as the lists above show, even in economic hurts the USA still ranks at the top or is the top of most lists. "The cell phone is a technology holding some origins in Bell labs in America, but the first devices were produced in Sweden by Ericson. Today, Nokia, a company whose headquarters is in Finland, dominates the market. Worse, the technological infrastructure for cell phones in America is surpassed by nearly every developed country. Because of the size and population densities of the country, America is slow to diffuse these technologies. " 10 Largest Cellular Service Providers in the world 1.NTT (Jap) Verizon Communications(USA) AT&T Inc.(USA) Deutsche Telekom Telefonica France Telecom Vodafone Group NTT DoCoMo Sprint Nextel Corporation(USA) Telecom Italia USA wireless companies make the top 10 list 3x's as often as any other country. I think its also important to state Americas greatness can be derived for the simple fact that ALL OUT OF SPACE SATELITES ARE USA OWNED AND OPERATED. This means SO MUCH of the rest of the worlds "tech," such as GPS , and all other sattelite operations require the USA and its' technologies. Beautiful USA and its' REAL technological leadership, from space travel, computers, weaponry, finance, agricluture, medicine, education, etc. "In investment in alternative technologies, the US has failed in it's mission to move away from coal for cleaner technologies such as nuclear, solar, or wind power. All of these technologies could save lives by reducing the smog and other pollutants from citizens in the surrounding areas, but America has been slow to respond. Japan is beating us in solar investment, and France is all nuclear. America is a step behind in many areas." FACT, USA is the largest corn and soybean producer and currently the largest producer of corn/soy ethanol fuel. USA is home to the largest wind turbine farms in the world,(largest is Horse Hollow in Texas) USA is home to the largest Solar panel producing plant in the world and has been since the early 1980's,..(one step behind you say?) USA is home to the largest Geo thermal power field. Because the USA is home to 1/4th of the worlds coal supply it is no surprise that the USA still uses much coal in producing electricity. It will not be long before current investments in alternative energy sources pay bigger dividends. In closing,.. because I no longer wish to continue, though I could,.. I will just say to your "shrinking dollar value" premise,.. though short term and need not effect passed or present greatness status of the USA,.. still shows little significance considering the USA has the largest per capita GDP in the world,.. and we pay the lowest of any developed nation for commodities,.. including fuel, which only increases the quality of life in the USA. The USA is greater in several other areas as well, for instance to name a few,.. most NOBEL peace prize recipients, most Gold medal wins in the Olympics, most millionares, etc. The USA has the smallest un enemployment rates and almost half as many unemployed as the European Union. The USA leads the world in science and technology reseach papers and influence factors. The USA has a litteracy rate at 99% ranking it of the highest educated in the world. ETC..ETC.ETC,...ETC... ON and ON,.. USA is the greatest! Sources,.. www.cia.gov www.agweb.com www.merriam-webster.com www.euro-stat.eu