From a US perspective, braining other countries' brains is good. I understand the term is negative, but I didn't mean it that way. We don't need to ask how the

From a US perspective, braining other countries' brains is good. I understand the term is negative, but I didn't mean it that way. We don't need to ask how the US stacks up against the rest of the world -- only our economic peers. Compared to many Western European countries and Canada, we are not investing our excess resources as well into social safety. I'm not a socialist and don't support UBS, but the floor of poverty in the US needs to be much higher (for all our sakes).