APP - In two sentences or less what does being a great country mean to you?

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#AMERICAISDEAD
This is not a trick question. That is why I am posting it on APP. I am genuinely curious as to what you think it means to be a great country?

Remember, brevity is the soul of wit


Of course Tekky and Steel will be thread banned because I don't particularly care what they think. But everyone else is welcome. Even Howey when he returns :)
 
Preface: I don't like the word 'great,' it presumes something that should be a goal never reached.

A country is a place in which all its citizens have a real opportunity to succeed. It is not a country that can be defined by the two pieces linked below.

"The current Population Survey data show that 15 percent of Americans, roughly 46.5 million people, live at or below the government-defined poverty line—which, as most who work with the hungry, the homeless, the uninsured, and the underpaid or unemployed know, is itself an inadequate measure of poverty. By more reasonable measures, poverty in this country is even more pervasive." http://www.thenation.com/article/176242/americas-shameful-poverty-stats

“What should we do,” Abramsky asks, “with someone like Emily?” His answer is not to blame the victim, and he skewers conservatives for doing so. Whether poverty “is caused by dysfunction, or the dysfunction is itself a product of the poverty, or, as is likely, the dysfunction and the poverty interact in ever more complex feedback loops, for the larger community to wash its hands of the problem represents an extraordinary failure of the moral imagination.*"" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/books/review/sasha-abramskys-american-way-of-poverty.html


* It also rules any use of the word great.
 
midcan5 said:
Preface: I don't like the word 'great,' it presumes something that should be a goal never reached.

A country is a place in which all its citizens have a real opportunity to succeed. It is not a country that can be defined by the two pieces linked below.

"The current Population Survey data show that 15 percent of Americans, roughly 46.5 million people, live at or below the government-defined poverty line—which, as most who work with the hungry, the homeless, the uninsured, and the underpaid or unemployed know, is itself an inadequate measure of poverty. By more reasonable measures, poverty in this country is even more pervasive." http://www.thenation.com/article/176242/americas-shameful-poverty-stats

“What should we do,” Abramsky asks, “with someone like Emily?” His answer is not to blame the victim, and he skewers conservatives for doing so. Whether poverty “is caused by dysfunction, or the dysfunction is itself a product of the poverty, or, as is likely, the dysfunction and the poverty interact in ever more complex feedback loops, for the larger community to wash its hands of the problem represents an extraordinary failure of the moral imagination.*"" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/books/review/sasha-abramskys-american-way-of-poverty.html


* It also rules any use of the word great.
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