The world would be better if more people were like Americans

Tom Krannawitter has a few things to say to college students who think the United States is a uniquely shameful source of social injustice:

For the coddled snowflakes enrolled in American colleges and universities -- especially the ones tempted to protest the United States as some uniquely shameful source of social injustice -- consider the following:

There are just over one million public charities in the United States today. There are just over one hundred thousand private foundations. And there are about four hundred thousand other types of tax-exempt, social service organizations such as fraternal organizations and civic leagues, for a total of over 1,500,000 individual charitable organizations!

Last year, American charitable organizations gave in donations over $350 BILLION DOLLARS! That's $358,380,000,000 to be more precise. Not far from half a trillion dollars in private giving!

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The United States tops all other nations in terms of charitable giving. And each and every dollar that is given by an American to someone who needs help represents the hard work of free citizens who make profits by producing goods and services that other people want, need, and value.

In other words, free American citizens make a profit by helping others and making others happy, THEN those same profit-making Americans turn around and help people yet MORE through charitable giving!

Just think: In little more than two short centuries, the United States went from a nation of poor, subsistence dirt farmers to the most prosperous and most charitable nation the world has ever seen! And how did Americans do this? The protection of property rights and individual freedom, and the entrepreneurship fueled by freedom, make all this prosperity, profit, and giving possible.

Isn't capitalism a beautiful thing?

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To boot, when people from the around the world were surveyed in terms of willingness to help a stranger, individually, Americans ranked number one. Which means: Americans are pretty decent people, at least compared to the rest of the world.

Our colleges and universities might encourage young Americans to be embarrassed and ashamed of their country. But the truth is, the world would be better if more people were more like Americans, and more nations were more like the United States.
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