The human condition was the same for 1800 years, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said to an audience at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire, until America came along. After our nation’s founding and commitment to freedom and free markets, “life expectancy doubled” and economies around the world grew.
This was all part of Santorum’s pitch as to why America is literally the best nation in the history of the world, and that the US is truly exceptional.