America

You people are all ridiculous. If any of you seriously think that one country holds the monopoly on all the world's problems, that is just ignorant and childish. Every country has problems, the whole fucking world has problems! Greed, avarice, jealousy, hatred, arrogance.....This is the human condition, not the American condition.

I'm so sick of people ranting about how much they despise Americans and generalizing the entire country in such a horrible way. It is so incredibly ignorant and childish. There are so many good people here, millions and millions of good people, the same as there are everywhere. Stop feeling so entitled. If you continue lamenting about humanity as a whole, you will die lonely, bitter, and disappointed.

There are fucked up people everywhere you go. But what about the millions of people who are just somebody's mother, daughter, son, husband, grandmother. What about the joy they get in giving their loved ones gifts on the holidays? The pain they feel when visiting a sick relative, the sadness they feel when their dog dies. Humans everywhere experience the same emotions, we're all from the same mold. To blindly hate.....I just can't understand it. Why would you want to live that way? It must be exhausting.

No matter how angry I get at strangers on the street, how frustrated I get with politicians that can't make up their mind, how sickened I become with all the problems in this world...life is still beautiful. People are still beautiful. That we can feel all these things is beautiful! But learn to control it for God's sake. You have to have some balance. It's one thing to hate, but it's another to let it eat at your soul.

We should all have pride for our own countries, but this doesn't mean we shouldn't appreciate the beauty of other cultures. If people just stop debating about who contributes what, who is richer, who is poorer, who could blast who off the map. Come on. Live your lives, they are short. Get over it and try to love a little.

And to all of you hating on Americans. I am American. I am not driven by greed or arrogance. I don't feel entitled, and I don't feel indifferent to those less fortunate than me. If I had it in my power I would do anything for anyone. I love, I feel, I'm compassionate. And I promise you, in this sense, I am not rare.

Poster:

All I can say is:
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

Things here are FUCKED. Anyone who disagrees, for example many braindead people who unfortunately commented here, are brainwashed sheep who eat every spoonful of shit fed to them with smiles on their faces.

Yeah, I'm an American and I hate America. That's why I left the country. Bunch of racist, homophobic, egotistic hicks if you ask me. I was only ever an "American" when it was convenient to them.

Wow I can't believe I read that whole thread. The first thing I have to say is that Ms October is an uneducated, ignorant, hateful person. You can tell she watches too much CNN.

Sure are a lot of proud Americans here, didn't know this site had so many Native-Americans! (Indians) haha ok I will stop tightening my noose..

To all you Americans knocking european countries... ahem.. Where do you think your ancestors came from?

By the way, the worlds superpowers and their economies are like a three legged table. No matter which country goes down, it will bring the table down, and effect the others.

Take your heads out of your asses, and stop hating. Educate yourselves. Open a history book. Don't you have better things to do?

Please, can we stop referring to countries as a whole, there are millions of individual people in each area of land, stereotyping them all as having certain characteristics is extremely narrowminded and offensive to whomever it is you are discussing.

Amerikkka is a fashist criminal state that has been ruling the wolrd though fear.

The coutys of the world must unite though marxist-lenism and the juche idea to overthrow Amerikkka, its warmongering fashist govement and the wall street who control them.

"Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations — all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism." V.I Lenin

"Imperialism will not last long because it always does evil things. It persists in grooming and supporting reactionaries in all countries who are against the people, it has forcibly seized many colonies and semi-colonies and many military bases, and it threatens the peace with atomic war. Thus, forced by imperialism to do so, more than 90 per cent of the people of the world are rising or will rise in struggle against it. Yet, imperialism is still alive, still running amuck in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In the West imperialism is still oppressing the people at home. This situation must change. It is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S. imperialism." Mao Zedong

"It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious." Kim Il Sung

Down with U$ imperialism!!!
Long Live Communism
Long Live Marxist-Leninism!!!
Long Live Juche!!!

Ms October: a true American stereotype.

America is a joke.
But i love it.

You are 100%% correct just look at all the replies by ignorant probably obese arrogant americans,They are a cancer sick people evil selfish horrible society,You are so right believe it u have the knowledge of the gods,America is a sespool of souless morally bankrupt idiots i am right there with you please keep on with your opinions i believe u are so right

I think the poster was referring to the current economic crisis and how it seems that the corporate types are the only ones that always benefit... Maybe I'm reading it all wrong though...

Tobra

Please explain to me exactly how America rules the world???

im an american, born in bulgaria but im 14 and cant sayich about this country. but i agree, this country is slowly going down the damn tubes! its fucked up

Jesus this is depressing.

Yes, OP.

FUCK U HATERS
I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT AFTER THE WAR NORWAY WAS ONE OF THE COUNTRIES THAT NOT EVEN A RAT'S ASS WOULD EVEN CARE TO LOOK AT!
AND WHO DO YOU THINK CAME FOR HELP?
AMERICA, WE LOVE YOU!

and the people have such hospitality
and the land goes from icy mountains to big deserts, to enourmous forests, and to the great urban jungle
u have everything within the four corners of the USA

but i still love usa tho!
keep em movies up!

I THINK USA SHOULD STOP BEING SO AVERAGELY FAT
u see the earth only has a limited amount of materials. it's as we learnt from the lion king:
it's all just a circle
nothing disappears from the earth, it just turns into gas, turns into liquids, and then turn into solids
the only way to get rid of materials, is to shoot them out of the athmosphere, such as space travels
and therefor, the bigger you are, the more materials u have taken, and by that u make it so that its less for the others to take.
if you are a "big person", what's around your belly might one day be fat around someone elses belly (after u're dead, unfortunately)

Also, I kind of think colonialism is bad, but hey, the Europeans had to find ways to survive, too; after the fall of the Mongol Empire and the rise of the Ottomans, East to West, and vice-versa, trade wasn't really accommodating to the Europeans. What do you think the Crusades were (early forms of colonialism aimed at facilitating trade for European merchants, since Islam had began to fragment and develop many different regimes by the 11th century, which made it difficult to get through the overland trade routes). However, things began to change for the Europeans when they finally learned to circumnavigate the horn of Africa (thanks Vasco de Gama 15th century), and so trade with India (colonialism by British Empire, too) and China (who initially did not trade with European Gold Standard, but then, by accident some guy named Christopher Columbus found the Americas when he was really looking for a way to the Indian Ocean from the West; which, then, led to the Portuguese and Spanish finding huge amounts of silver in Peru -- silver which the Chinese valued more -- so now trade with China is possible) was easier and actually lucrative, and swift, unlike the many empires you would have to pay tithes to on overland trade routes (which were very dangerous after the Mongol Empire began to split into hostile appanages too).

So, guess what, now the Europeans have broken into the lucrative Afro-Eurasian market, and the merchant classes of Portugal, England and Spain become so rich (e.g. silver in Peru) that they began to receive patents and charters from Kings to form trading posts (i.e., colonies) in their names. Thus, the original accumulation of capital - from small experimental forms of trade - had developed, because of the enormous amounts of wealth acquired by the merchant classes, into operational forms of acquiring capital from the New World. So, this all means that the Europeans have been propelled to world dominance by making gold more valuable than silver (which Chinese value more).

So, it was all really based on geopolitics at first, but now the entire globe is carved up, so I think that pretty soon the World-economy (which is roughly split up between the US, EU, and China) is probably gonna look like this pretty soon - US-EU and China. Just pure conjecture, don't have to believe it just saying.

I think everyone in this thread is really off topic, and talking about the world-economy instead of the actual country, the USA. This thing has really gotten out of hand, whoa! (just pulled a Keanu Reeves)...Anyway, I don't think the US is so bad, I think there has been a couple leaders in the past who were greedy and played it too close, but not all politicians are old dirty bastards. If all you people are looking for someone/thing to blame, then blame the development of capitalism in the US.

I don't really have hard facts to back this up, but if you look at it from a broad perspective, the economic sector in the USA (capitalism) is what gave rise to the nation-state; I think it should have been the other way around. Such as in Europe, where there is a good balance between the economic sectors and the governmental apparatuses in charge of the collective society and economy.

Since the USA was strictly founded by colonizers from Europe, which shows that the original USA were built as colonies to generate and gather resources to ship back to Europe (purely profit). The original colonizers never imagined they would have formed a state of their own, no idea of revolution was there. Only overtime did that idea cross the minds of the colonies once their leaders began to notice: "hey, they're all the way there and we're all the way here, so why are we paying taxes and not taking advantage of our situation. Hell, they're thousands of miles away fighting against other nations and dealing with their own internal problems, too. Lets go for it!" (propaganda machine starts, probably)

That is pretty much how I look at things. That there is no harmony between capitalism and the collectivity of American society and government. Instead, you see the economy taking control and dictating the moves. This is bad, I think, but not every aspect of America is.

Ok, Ms October you got one fact wrong: the most powerful armies in the world are either the French (surprise!) because it's so efficient it could raid you in the middle of the night, kill the whole city and you would not notice; the other is the Chinese. Do you even know how many people are in the Chinese army? Well I don't and that scares the shit out of me. They are so many people in China!
The age of the western world being the superpower is over. It's China's and Russia's turn.
I was born in America and raised in Europe; it's thanks to people like the guy up there who asked if it was normal that I used to be ashamed of stating my nationality, so I used that of my adoptive country, which is SHIT. Yeah, Italy sucks. Try coming to live here all of you and you'll realise how lucky you are to be living in the US. The media is manipulated directly by the government, the laws are decided on the whims of the prime minister, it's like living in a dictatorship. So. Calm the hell down, you who asked the question. You have no idea what actual greed means.
It means trying to set up a law to pull funds from private bank accounts. In America, if this happened, there would be national riots. Why? Because one of the great things about the US is that the people can have everything they want if they work hard enough. Where do you think the first movements against slavery came from?
Europe was to preoccupied looking down on their black servants to even think of it. Do you forget Europe spawned fascism and nazism?
What can the US produce to compare with? Ok, the KKK and McDonalds. You say politics of fear?
How old are you is my question. Travel a little, go to fucking Uganda and then tell me about politics of fear you noob.
Honestly I think what's wrong with the western world is the westerners. We have no clue how lucky we are. Sure, we have to improve a lot, but honestly, we're just spitting in the face of countries who are suffering by trying to find fault with our own.
Jeez, stuff like this gets me angry.

United States? Brb, too busy rofling.

Let me put this straight. Every single one of you are acting like ignorant selfish 14 year olds (I would know) you all think that you country is better than the other. "lets gang up on America" and then we say "lets bomb their brains out" REALITY CHEACK!! China has problems. America has problems. France has problems. UK has problems. Japan, Brazil, Ethiopia, and even Germany has problems. Geuss what?? WE ALL HAVE PROBLEMS!!! So maybe America has bounced back, and we do help other people, take WWII for example, we save Europes asses but you know we had Allis!! We need help to and the sterotype of us is not even true for most of us. I am educated in that area. And we all, even Americans, need to realize their own problems before you all can judge other countrys. We all work hard and any way you all look at it, we all have the Right to Nautral Right since we were born. Maybe once we can solve our own problems then we can "omigod your wrong I'm right" other people (this goes for everyone), and once you do this, we might be able to shake hands and say:
"I'm sorry"

Budthewise, how come you bleeding hearts always have to embelish numbers when trying to make a point?

dance to thier tune puppets its what tghe governments want

all of you are sucked into political crap. buraeucracy has infected you all. everyone in competition. it is not "american" policies its "human policies" there is no perfect place in the world. not one square mile of this earth is sheltered from ignorance if we cant all learn to cope with one another. all governments have there ups an downs just like all people. humans tend to forget we are all born the same...helpless and we all programmed based on our experiences. we all share this planet. we need to act like it. its fucking ridiculous. i hope one day we find proof of intelligent space life so we can be put in our inferior place. stop the hate man and realize we are all the same.

I'm not even going to touch on any of the points you made because I don't have time and I hate political debate.

However, I may be an American, but I'm not America.

How much say do you have in the actions of your government? You can hate on the choices made by the American government all you want but AmericaNS are people too, and hating all of us is just ignorant.

But whatever, waste your life away pointlessly hating. It's of no concern to me, I choose to be happy.

Finally a place where I can express my opinion for America, america lovers look away now.

O.K. then.

First to all of you right wing, governental loving idiots, whilst you may think that america is perfect I am going to disprove eeeeverything that you think is so awesome about prickland, aka america.

First off the economy, you think that you are supporting all of us and everywhere else in the world? well guess again, one quick look at the guiness world record book will show that the largest debt ever ammased was by america for a whopping total of 144 billion dollars and on the rise, most of it owed to britain and japan, and about 90%% will at some point be spent on the yearly 4.4 billion spent on guns(no bombs, cannons, tanks just guns) every year and rising as new technology is being discovered(this first part is very well informed so dont contradict me)

Second your gigantic ego.
America...everyone loves you right? no...you THINK that they do but think about it, how many people have made massive moral uprisings against america?
Saddam hussein, Marx, Osama, Lockerbie, Taliban, Iran, etc and you still wont change a thing about your system to stop the attacks because your ego tells you that if you change that your precious voters will rebel against you but think about it...how many people do you think worry day and night about troops that YOUR CRAPPY GOVERNMENT forced to fight in iraq for what? to bring democracy to countries that seemed to be a lot better off than you?

Third cares.

Does america care about what stuff costs?
No!
Does america care about other peoples beleifs?
No!
Does america care about the aftermath of war?
No!
Because they think someone else will do it for them!!!

If you get down to core of it, does america stand on its own money? nope as mentioned before they take money from britain(which caused our credit crunch) and japan to fund for their weapons like (informed answer) tomahawk missiles!

This is true, in my profile I have a link to some pictures and one of them was MY TOILET I USED IN VIETNAM. Please look at it if you want to debate this.

Not Ms. October, she has the right idea, mostly. Plus, I respect her too much to argue with her.

In the "information age" or as it should be called, the "mis-information age", all we know about each other is what we read or see on a flickering screen, and we believe we are "informed". So sad. Americans are no different than Europeans but the media had a field day pitting one against the other. I suggest you take a year and move to America, live in a small community, and you will see, Americans are just like you. Turn off you TV and disconnect your internet and just live. You will be surprised when you realize how much you have been brainwashed.

America is agreeably a pretty fucked up place right now...not the 'America' Thomas Jefferson was probably envisioning. Lots of arrogant wealthy people living sheltered from reality, keeping the poor undereducated and without hope of achieving their own 'American Dream.' But it is still my country. It's just a bunch of people living together, just like any other country. Americans do tend to have the 'uber-superiority' mentality more than other nationalities, but I sense another type of arrogance coming from places like Western Europe; a kind of "we're in the know" mentality that is equally full of shit. It's all just social studies 101...who will be the next world power? Oh, and you're welcome for light bulbs, the steam engine, airplanes, phonographs, moving pictures, the modern telephone, cellular phones, practical electric power transmission, open heart surgery, modern neursurgery, nuclear energy, particle accelerators, home computers and rap music...

Randomly:

I keep hearing people in this thread say 'If you hate America so much, why not move to a different country?'

You know, I would actually love to do that. Not because I hate America, but because it's always been a dream of mine to live abroad. Or at least travel (but yeah, economy sucks, minimum wage sucks, no money sucks) but there is also one more problem with that. I'm honestly afraid to go to a different country, mainly because of all the hate I feel just for being born in America.

It's like, if I go to Japan, or Britian, or Ireland, or anywhere, and people know I'm an American tourist, what would they think? Would they group me under the stereotype of "fat, stupid, stubborn, arrogant, greedy" ect?? Reading threads like this makes me think that, yeah, they would.

I am American. Am I proud to be one? Sometimes. Do I hate other countries or think that I am better than them just because I was born here? Definitely not. But really, I think it's better off during this time if I staid where I was. Especially since I'm feeling so much animosity from all sides.

dude if u live in america do one of two things 1.) shoot yourself 2.) GET THE FUCK OUT. go live in a 3rd world country and well see how much you love America. Its the Home of the Free Land of the Brave. We have soldiers fighting for your fuckin right to say that shit and you cant do anything else other than bitch! Your such a liberal piece of shit. Anyone who lives in America and hates it, go to Russia and tell me if you like it there, where people are told what to do, what to wear, where to work, who to worship, and when to speak. so shut your fuckin mouth

of course it's not normal, but what if it were the Motherland instead of America, would you bust on that?

-happy trolling, ricky.

I can't get over how closed minded some Americans are. And its the same over here in the UK.

There are many things about my country that really, really piss me off. But at the end of the day to me it's one of the best. I don't have to worry about armies blowing the crap out of me, I can fill myself up with food when I want and water comes out of a tap. Also I have free healthcare which has worked everytime for me.

I can vote without hassle who runs my country and generally they are good guys and girls.

And so forth.

If you don't like America then go and live somewhere else (if you are young you'll get older and be able to go soon, if you do not have the money to go then just pop over the Mexico, they'll have you).

All i have to say is, while American may have it's many downsides, there are plenty of good sides to it. I am damn proud to be an American, and the bottom line is, if you ARE American, and are one of the people arguing AGAINST america in these posts, then GTFO of this country!

Yeah, we have good land. Apart from that, we're all faggots living in a society of faggots run by faggots.

yes its normal fear is the best way to control people. capitalism, from an early age, conditions people to work together only for self interest. welcome to the same page as everyone else

One thing I hate about USA is their foreign politics... America gives money to to dictators all over the world and even establishes new ones. They kill people, commit mass murders? But while they help the large corporations, people close their eyes and let this happen. USA troops commit war crimes and many of them never get punished. America invades other countries ignoring their rights. The so-called "war on terror" is a joke. Some think they can do anything and get away unpunished. And because of the politics of fear, mainstream media and and a wall of lies they can. Justice, freedom? Forget about that, your government can put you in the prison or even kill you and nobody will give a fuck. And it's the society of consumers. America consumes more than gives, ignores civil rights and thinks It's the ruler of the world. And, in the near future it can get fascistic - In the times of decadence people look for a savior. Hitler was a savior of Germany. People believed him, loved him. With the right events and the right leaders that can happen in any country of the world. (especially with such ignorant people as Ms_October)

It can be a beautiful country, but right now it's foreign politics can be described as terrorism. There are many countries far worse than America, but they aren't global superpowers.

also, american's are way too arrogant and generally ignorant people. i'm talking about American's in general though. there is the odd decent american out there.

america's not the only ones. they're just more capitalist. look at the British and Spanish empires for example. they were based on greed. the one thing i do strongly dislike about america however, is how a country so wealthy has such inadequate social welfare provision for the poorer members of its population. many other countries do.

it sounds like you hate America, wow that sucks because you are American.
sure America is weak right now because of corruption, but the very core of american power and influence stems from rising from the ashes of ruin.
the american revolution-they said we had no chance, we won
the space race- we were so far behind the soviets that we were almost out of the race, we achieved the first moon landing
wwII- we came out of teh great depression to save the world from hitler
-it doesn't matter how damaged America becomes, we will always bounce back with the same amount of force that pushed us to that low

Is it normal that a country as young as America is so powerful and so great that people In other countries have nothing better to do then complain about how horrible america is, like a teenage girl jealous of her classmate, because all the boys in school like her the best. An example of proof ~ americans like me are minding our business. When out of now where comes some cry baby foreigners talking about how America sucks. And people like me having to tell them to fuck off. But proof comes in the fact that while their always thinking about the united states. 90 percent of Americans never think about other countries. Why would we? But before people in other countries open their big mouths. they should look at themselves firstn example number 1 France. Americans helped liberate there country long age because we were supposed to be friends. Then during the Iraq conflict ( which I did not support ) but had The right to oppose as an American citizen not European. The turned there back on us. Friends are supposed to have each others back. no matter what. And Germany of all countries should not be so high and mighty. How many people were murderd by the Nazis. Muslims and the middle east hate the Jews for stealing Muslim land. But if they read ancient records kept by their own people. They would know they stole Jewish land and miss treated them first

the only other country i'd ever want to live in besides the US would maybe be the netherlands.

having read some of those previous, hate-filled comments... i WOULD like to say that to have a burning hatred for an entire people is the equivalent of racism in my eyes...
Sure, its alright to generalize, but its not alright to say that each and every one of a people are the same, revolting image just because they belong to a country you dont exactly favor.
I hate americans in general, yet i have many friends here in america... how can this be? well, because the stereotypical image that americans have is a majority, when you see an enemy army you think "these guys are all heartless murderers" ...but they think the same of you.
I guess what im saying is... when people make the assumption that i am a disgusting overweight idiot who cares only about myself just because i come from America, of course im gonna get pissed off. Im not asking anyone to like me, or anyone else, im just asking people to think in a slightly different way of thinking, granted im guilty of generalization myself.
ahhhh look at me im rambling and i havent slept since before 6am yesterday morning, forgive me if what i say is strange. :S
anyway take care everyone... time for sleep.

I live in america, but by no means do i consider myself patriotic... infact quite the opposite.
I hate America. why? Corruption, lies, outrageous political standpoints and a system of laws based upon religion essentially... of which i dont belong.
I realize of course that all countries have their corruptions ect, but there is just something about the United States that disgusts me to no end...
The biggest problem i have with Americans as a people is cockiness and false pride. This is obviously a generalization though...
Our economy is failing. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. soon there will be only 2 classes of people.
Our dollar is a disgrace. How could we let this happen? and whats more how can we continue to WANT the manufacturing of more money, decreasing its value with each printing?? Bush did us no justice, and im not so sure Obama will either, he moves too fast for his own good. One thing is for sure... you cannot trust the government, and if you do, its a risk to say the least.
"Land of the Free" my ass.

America is actually drowning in debt and it is a false economy. The American dollar should not be worth as much as it is and it will crash eventually.

It makes me annoyed and frustrated that so many Americans are too brain washed to see this.

It is this kind of post that makes it apparent that the USA shouldn't be the world's police. As an American, I am sick of our resources going to fix other people's problems - including disease, hunger, and war. Why can't we just be more reclusive?

If you don't like America, LEAVE!

I mean that, if you're unhappy. Why stay?

I'm sure most Americans can find some type of work in the UK or Canada or wherever to get by, and experience other cultures. Even for a few years. My brother did.

Its perfectly normal to hate america.

Usless, Scared, Arrogant. the initials sum up the most fat,stupid,self centred people in the plastic world of life.you do not even understand the simple laws of cricket. at school our girls play netball(basketball)rounders(baseball)and the boys play rugby a tougher game than your football without all that cissy padding. c'mon yanks get real.

Sadly, I agree and will admit it (I'm from America).

That really sums it up pretty good. Although you have to admit, a lot of other countries in the world are the same way.

The corporations are definitely greedy. Just look at the way things are going now. Gee I wonder why we're in this economic crisis; it's all because of greed and not enough regulation of the stock market.

Politicians couldn't be summed up in a better word. Fear is the number one thing, or word they instill into your brain to vote for him/her. They never talk about the issues; they just want you vote so they can get payed hundreds of thousands of dollars and also take bribes from large corporations in America.

Tobra all I can say is you really are a small-minded little bigot. We have gone in 2 posts from who is responsible for the credit crunch, what can be done to avoid it and a general if superficial debate on world economics, to you basically insulting loads of countries to make yourself feel better in a desperate attempt to win an argument... with someone on the internet... someone you're never going to meet... Do you see where I'm going with this? Are you really that desperate?

I'm not even going to respond to your paragraphs regarding economics because it's all desperate drivel. But let me say this...

In the many times I've been to America, most people I've come across have been very nice people with balanced wordly views - not at all the stupid, racist, ignorant, backwater hicks that some would make Americans out to be.

Thank fuck then that your kind is a minority in America. I'm sad to say this, but in your case the American stereotype is true. Racehorses are less blinkered than you are.

Tobra a pretty bold statement to say when the cause was the lack of regulation in the US investment market.

well for your information october america is not propping up australia our banks have limited incestment with america but a product of globalisation is that countries are linked together in finance and bussiness thats why australia will have a limited effect from this.

It is ignorant people like you that give americans a bad name it is about time your education system taught you about other countries in the world. Let me tell you there are a lot of so called non western countries that far exceed america in wealth and technology. You should shut the fuck up you sound like a complete idiot.

*I'm* the ignorant one?

Catch a clue, cupcake - you've as much as admitted that IF something goes horribly wrong with the American economy the rest of the world will suffer.

Can we put two and two together?

And Our banking disaster has wiped almost 5%% of Your countries stock exchange value? Hmmm, could it be that Your country is one of the Many that We've been propping up, financially, for years? (Not that we should - we in America have this problem, we insist upon helping every two bit country -many of which not so secretly hate us- on the earth. We shouldn't.

As far as what happens to Your people and economy, here's a thought: Instead of blaming America and our currently bad economy for your troubles, why not take the bull by the horns and try blaming Your Own leaders. I realize it is tough to stand on your own two feet after several decades of American help and bail outs, but give it a shot.

Bottom line, unless you are An American (and if so, I can't for the life of me figure why we are even having this conversation) then Ultimately it really isn't Our problem if Your country thrives or folds under it's own weight.

We help and we give and we help and we give, and at most, all many other countries can do is stand there with one thumb up their ass and the other hand outstretched whilst Demanding (Loudly) : M.O.R.E.

America stumbles, The World crashes. In that case don't you think it would be better Supporting us rather than putting the bad mouth out about us?

The Divine Ms. O.

I feel your jealousy and pain poster.

I don't blame you, it is rough knowing We rule the earth and you don't.

Get over yourself

Tobra

Normal as in over 75%% of the world's nations are the same? Yeh i think so.

This belongs on some political blog, not IIN.

azerothen, where in the name of sweet Jesus do you get your "facts" from? I could contradict these "facts" all night long but that would be tantamount to giving you a handout, so do your own research. As far as the big ego goes, why not? Again, I could carry on all night about Nobel prizes (except Gore and Obama), technology, athletics, financial assistance, military assistance, et al. As far as your idea of moral goes, I noticed the outstanding list of individuals that you put forth. Very impressive! Last time I checked none of these "moral giants" of yours even allow their people to vote. I will agree with you that a good number of us here do find our vote precious, and so do a massive number of immegrants from those countries and, yes, many other countries as well. I will also point out to you that NO ONE in this country is forced to fight as our military has been all volunteer for the past thirty five years. Most of us do care what things cost, we do respect others's beliefs (see immegration) and I will bet that we have spent more money helping those countries that we have defeated in war afterwards than any other country that exists. In closing, there were a group of greedy business people along with a lot of bleeding heart progressives/democrats that tossed our financial system. However, is that not how the Japanese, English and the rest of the world also lent a hand in this fiasco? You should really learn how to relax...

Get a life go find a political blog to write that shit on.

Ron Paul 2012

AMERICA, FUCK YA!