America was a nice country while under President Clinton. I and my family had near no hatred for it at all and even concidered trying to live there. But under gorge bush, no one who is sane would want to be part of a country being as usless and destructive as america.
Oh really? What did Clinton do? You know, other than raise taxes.
Also, (not at you DSG) I laugh when people call Republicans anti-homosexual, but it was
Clinton who instated the Don't Ask - Don't Tell policy
They failed to help their own citizens in times of needed (cube ended up helping american citizens more than america). This was seen in the New Orleans where george bush did shit all to save his people there and no government help was provided to refund people's lost possessions. Infact it leaked out somewhere that the people encharge delighbertly did not help the people left behind for racist and class based reasons. That hardly seems like a democracy that cares for anyone.
I agree that we shouldn't help other people anymore. Focus on helping
Americans. But none of what you said is true. For the Federal Government, at least. I don't know about the State Government.
All the Federally Funded programs that were used during Katrina worked exactly as they were supposed to. It's Disaster
Relief not Disaster
Rescue for a reason.
The state government made mistakes, though. And there's no denying that.
Also, if America decided to spend half its weapons budget on actually going green, it could easilly reduce its emmisions by 25% or more while still encouraging growth.
Why would we "go green?"
Global Warming is fake. Actual scientific
fact refutes Global Warming, or at least the version that jackasses like Al Gore spew out of their mouths.
Will the Earth warm eventually? Yes. Is it going to kill us all in 15 years? No.
Instead they have a millatry budget that does not make sense, its size is over twice the total revenue of the U.K.. Ofcourse I am not saying they should not have one, but by reducing it by 25%, they could drastically modernise a lot of the infrustructure in the USA or even develop whole developing countries. There is no arguing that that money would be more productive spent elsewhere.
Well, there are several ways to cut budget. Infact, the military is usually the first thing that's cut. Several bases around the country were shut down and merged with others to cut costs.
By cutting down the Military by 25%, it would cripple the American military.
There are other, and better ways to balance the budget. Such as, stop sending so much aid around the world, cut funding to bad programs, cut spending, cut taxes, etc.
The military is a very small portion of that.
America is not rich, it says it is to the world but infact it is horriably in debt. They have spent so much recently that they have actually no money to spair and will soon run up a bill the size of brazil. However as they controle the world economy, no one calls in that debt as it would damage them as bad if not worse. Thus america should cut another 25% from its millatry budget just to help give it money by paying off what it owes.
America is in debt, but there are other ways to fix it. Read above D:
Ofcourse here in the U.K. there are our own problems with the government being usless and stupid, but most countries do. However unless America wisens up and actually improves both economically and politically, they may no longer be the most powerful country in the world.
We're not anymore.
China is already earning itself a better image than America. As apposed to New Orleans where shit all help was given by America to its people, China sent a lot of help to the victims of the earthquake which did about as much damage.
Economically yes. Socially, maybe. Practically, no.
Oh noes, Arvedui is striking again! With a long, long and long text!
Sorry D:
Hmm... they do also, but more likely they yell for their favorite teams, not their country. Not as much as USA. Btw, It's football!
Favorite teams, of their country, correct? Thus they are rooting for
their country. Soccer.
I do believe that you're watching the wrong shows. Not once have I seen a TV show have people chanting "USA" other than the WWE but that's just the genre. I've actually seen more Soccer games that have that happen (for other countries of course).
Before you start to laugh their face, look this.
Country Military Civilian Deaths
USSR 13,600,000 7,700,000 21,300,000
China 1,324,000 10,000,000 11,324,000
Germany 3,250,000 3,810,000 7,060,000
Poland 850,000 6,000,000 6,850,000
United States 500,000 - 500,000
Italy 330,000 80,000 410,000
Yeah, and? We weren't invaded, Russia was. England was Bombed. Poland was conquered, France was conquered. Japan invaded China.
All those places were either invaded or held back at some point.
Also, there is no denying the fact that once the US got involved the war turned for the better (for the Allies). Yes it was late, but we were trying to be neutral, which failed. Also happened in WWI, too, actually.
Could the Russians have done it by themselves? Maybe? No? I don't know, or care.
No, one, country did it by themselves. Hence the term, Allies.
EDIT: Fix my name on your quotes!