Charles G 1970 is in need of De-Programming of his US Orwellian Doublethink Brain Washed issues!!!
@Acer18 Well at least there is one other person on here that actually understands how out of touch with Reality Americans are. They seem to live inside a Non-Reality Bubble or are just BubbleBrains in the first place. Just because we have the largest debt of any civilized nation, exponentially greater than our ability to ever pay it off, doesn't mean we're still the most powerful and advanced nation by a long shot.
America's Technology is no longer solely US Government owned today. It's all based in Corporate ownership. Who primarily design, manufacture and operate off shore in so called developing nations, like India, Pakistan, China and Russia. Where these foreigners are soaking it all in at our expense. Apple the largest American publically traded Company (with near none of their money invested in America), is a prime example of the New American Way and the same goes for about every other company only registered as American Based and in name only.
Our market is no longer expanding and we've just been overtaken by China as the fastest growing and largest economy with the least debt. That wasn't supposed to happen for years. Yet it has.... and at the same time we lose jobs here we lose customers to buy all those foreign made devices and products. So now everything is almost completely manufactured in the fastest growing economy on the Planet..... China! ....where potential buyers are yet to be fully exploited!
Russians may not make the prettiest, in style military equipment, but they were the first to make Assault Weapons (AKM, AK47, etc) and the first to make ones in great quantity that actually worked better and beyond original design specifications. Greatness in Russian made Military gear comes in the form of thoroughly vetted use in the field of battle, not just on a drawing board. They have continually pushed Americans to spend more money on fit and finish of looks, while we're getting less practical results on the actual battle front! haha.... yet we still have stupid and ignorant American idiots waving flags and bragging about what we've created that's so great!

Case in point: Newest F-35 Lightning II Stealth Fighter will actually be armed with Missiles not designed by any American Firm. Very little (if any) of our own military muscle is actually 100% fully designed and manufactured in America by Americans any more!!!
Here's the test of this missile and why even America's Military (along w/ Poland, etc) are going with Foreign Designed and Built weaponry (Kongsberg Defense & Aersospace):
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech/stealth-cruise-missile-blasts-through-navy-ship-video/8673