Anyone can slant any data without much effort.
For example, people seem to be in disbelief about the whole "US is #37 in health care" ranlking because it was a UN agency that put it out - and even so, admitted that some countries measure things a little differently. But then you get some itneresting statistics that even account for that.
Try this on for size from
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36837265...h-health_care/
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A healthy 19-year-old Canadian can expect to have 52 more years of perfect health versus 49.3 more years for Americans.
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So there's an example of trying to compare apples to apples.
If the response is to stick one's head in the sand and say it's all false, then I'd ask how that person knows it's false.
If one wanted to slant numbers the other way, I'm sure a study would find that the United States is number one in the industrialized world in per capita medical bankruptcies.
Have you considered that what you call "Liberals bashing America" might be "Patriots raising the alarm about conditions in America"?
I don't agree with the Liberal "government is the first, best solution" attitude. But to say that there aren't problems is sheer folly.