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AmericanAli said:
Eagle367 said:

Ask England what happened to their manifest destiny. Its funny because empires fall and rise and fall and rise constantly and everyone but the people of these empires don't see it coming. I am in no way jealous of a piece of land as thats what a country is and I am in no way jealous or envious of CIA or the USA government who has had idiots as leaders sometimes like bush and might have one in trump. As a matter of fact the private sector has made america what it is not the military you are so proud of whose veterans you leave homeless and throw aside. Why would I be jealous of a state that sponsors terrorism and causes wars and is a war profiteer who spreads lies about my Asian neighbors in the middle east. The only thing I might be jealous of is that on that piece of land there are parts of it which house some of the top universities of the world which are private. So you new worlders can take your patriotism and swallow it whole and then barf it out or excrete it I don't care just don't spew that dirty misguided patriotism on my relatively open minded suite.

You are jealous because your country isn't as rich and strong as the United States. We have the money and the power, and that's all that matters in this world. Stop crying!

Easy now big guy XD

Overall USA is rich compared to countries with smaller populations. E.g. 5.7 mill people (Denmark) vs. 322.4 mill people (USA).

It's a bit different when we look at GDP per capita. List is from The World Bank and numbers are from 2014.

 

1 Luxembourg 116,664.3
2 Norway 97,307.4
3 Qatar 96,732.4
4 Macao SAR, China 96,038.1
5 Switzerland 85,594.3
6 Australia 61,925.5
7 Denmark 60,707.2
8 Sweden 58,938.8
9 Singapore 56,284.6
10 United States 54,629.5
11 Ireland 54,374.4
12 Netherlands 52,172.2
13 Iceland 52,004.5
14 Austria 51,190.8
15 Canada 50,235.4
16 Finland 49,823.7
17 Germany 47,821.9
18 Belgium 47,352.9
19 United Kingdom 46,332.0
20 New Zealand 44,342.2
21 United Arab Emirates 43,962.7
22 Kuwait 43,593.7
23 France 42,732.6
24 Brunei Darussalam 40,979.6
25 Hong Kong SAR, China 40,169.5
26 Israel 37,208.0
27 Japan 36,194.4
28 Italy 34,908.5
29 Spain 29,767.4
30 Korea, Rep. 27,970.5

 

What's the point in talking overall wealth? That doesn't always say much about the circumstances for the individual citizen.

Due to their huge populations China and India are projected to overtake the USA in overall wealth within the next 10 and 50 years, respectively. Will you be praising the overall wealth of those countries as well when that day arrives?

Additionally, Indonesia is projected to overtake Japan by 2050, again because of the huge Indonesian population.