Your arguments are completely irrelevant in this context. The fact is that, when summing up the numbers in the contracts, your country has a huge debt. I can't help it and wish it were not true. In fact, if it wasn't the case, I'd likely not have lost so much money since october.

>I mean all our military hardware and infrastructure on those bases.
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>Ah yes the swan song of we owe you money. Funny how we never got paid on the debt from liberating and rebuilding the "continent" ( twice ) and pouring massive amounts of funds into protecting it and bolstering its economy all through the post years until the tech boom where they made money riding our economy ( and please do not try and say that the US was not mainly responsible for the boom in world wealth ). I wonder what the interest would be on that debt? I wonder what the interest would be on the monies we poured out in Africa, Asia, Indonesia, and South America all in the name of humanitarianism. Funny thing is we never ask for it back...
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>Technology flourished under US investment after WW2 and we allowed other countries to send their pupils here to learn our technology most of the time on our dime and then return home and utilize it most of the time to the benefit of that country and not us ( chalk that up to us being good guys as well ). Too bad we cannot charge for intellectual mentoring. Other than majoring in some sort of foreign cultural study or some ruse about travel abroad, I cannot recall a wave of Americans heading to Europe or Asia to get that highly sought degree/training. Good example is the Arab oil fields. How much oil you think they actually pulled form the ground themselves prior to about 1975? Not much it was American companies ( some exceptions Dutch Shell and BP, but mainly Exxon, Chevron, Halliburton and others ) that invested there and trained those people. We showed the how to do it so they ( and us ) could make money selling it instead of eating sand.
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>Seems to me the ones who are self-indulgent are the European generations after the war that sit around a little full of themselves while others foot the bill and do the work. You do not see any older folks that lived in the war years too quick to criticize us. Poland gets it.