Sorry to say Labster, but looking from the EU at the USA?
The USA is in fact a third world country.
The infrastructure is falling apart, the educational system has no interest in educating (not talking about the teachers here), employees are blatantly exploited by their employers with no recourse other than violence, the crime (and especially the violent crime) rates are extraordinarily high, the incarceration rate and prisoner population are both the highest in the world (higher mind you than flat out dictatorships), the democracy is a mockery with the powerful knowingly and deliberately doing everything they can short of placing thugs at the polling stations to keep the voting public as exclusive to their supporters as possible and the health care service is a for profit industry that doesn't care about healing patients but about making money.
And that's before we get into the sectarian violence, deep seated racism and massive income inequality issues. Although the last one at least is an issue in the EU as well.
These are all not the hallmarks of a well lead first world government.
The USA is in fact a third world country.
The infrastructure is falling apart, the educational system has no interest in educating (not talking about the teachers here), employees are blatantly exploited by their employers with no recourse other than violence, the crime (and especially the violent crime) rates are extraordinarily high, the incarceration rate and prisoner population are both the highest in the world (higher mind you than flat out dictatorships), the democracy is a mockery with the powerful knowingly and deliberately doing everything they can short of placing thugs at the polling stations to keep the voting public as exclusive to their supporters as possible and the health care service is a for profit industry that doesn't care about healing patients but about making money.
And that's before we get into the sectarian violence, deep seated racism and massive income inequality issues. Although the last one at least is an issue in the EU as well.
These are all not the hallmarks of a well lead first world government.