Why can’t the “richest nation in the world” do this, why can’t the “richest nation in the world” do that?

The Patriot Room’s Scott Martin takes Obama to task for his flagrantly dishonest packaging of religious tenets in “a bizarre presser,” and the thing that jumped out at me is an overused expression that is a dead giveaway of the cluelessness of those who use it. Scott quotes the sourced article:

“The one thing that you all share is a moral conviction,” Obama said. “This debate over healthcare goes to the heart of who we are as American people… This is part of an ethical and moral obligation that we look out for one another.”

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“In the wealthiest nation on Earth, we are neglecting to live out that call,” the president said.

Everyone who invokes this “richest nation” argument is missing the point. There’s a reason we’re the richest nation in the world, and that reason is that we have not done all the things that lefties want us to do. I’m tempted to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they have no idea they keep proposing ideas that will ensure we don’t remain the richest nation on earth, but for some of them, I’m sure that is exactly their intent.