50 great things about the USA

Don't know about that, a country the size of my dick (Vietnam) kicked YOUR ass.

1 - Killed off all the indians yet brag about their great and insipiring forefathers.

2 - Vietnam War


3 - Nobody votes.

4 - 60 % of the population is overweight.

5 - Ilegal Irak war

6 - Bomd other countries back to the stone age in the name of freedom.

7 - Christian ultraright

8 - Nobody knows who really killed Kennedy yet who the fuck cares?

9 - Anybody who ever made a difference (Martin Luther King Jr, JFK, RFK, Malcom X) was killed.

10 - Do you feel sad or depressed? Are you worried about something? Scared of terrorism?? It's okay, just go shopping.

Oooohh, that had to hurt!

Now for the good things:


1- Professional sports are fun.

2 - Great doctors.

3 - Nice schools with excellent teachers.

4 - Welfare.

5 - Cheap stuff in comparison to other countries.

6 - DirecTV with SUnday Ticket.

7 - US Passports

8 - Criminals actually go to jail (sometimes)

9 - Used to make really great movies, although they mostly suck now.

10 - Constitution.

I apologize in advance ... I couldn't resist ...

You only have to be a millionaire to afford one...

As long as you're wearing Kevlar, you should get through the day

Yea, it's working wonders. You may not believe this, but there are countries in Europe with almost no homelessness. Now that is something to be proud of.

Good point :thumbsup

If they are a visible minority, it's virtually assured.

That comes from all those buffets ...
err, sorry, I thought you said "constipation".

Good stuff. :thumbsup


Did you read my post for 10 worst things? Please do one about them!!

Only need one to fuck it up :

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Looks like another guy from the late 30's ...

I don't care what anyone says.
Because of my husband's lousy choice of profession and his refusal to return to Canada and adult. I have seen the alternative and let me say this.

Yea ok,

Wallmart drives the prices down and puts mom and pop out of business. Nobody seems to remember when Walmart used to be Wolworths and Wolco. If the little guys hustled and used creative thinking, he could one day be just as big.

That's what can happen in a free and open market economy. If you don't like capitalism... Move to france and enjoy socialism.

2) The war sucks, Bush sucks, crime sucks and there are many fat idiot americans. But with a country of almost 300 million and the fact that even a street begger in Los Angeles can earn close to $15 an hour. They have got to be doing something right.

So fuck you all.
U.S.A. ALL THE WAY!!

And that's from a Canadienne indian tipping her hat to the greatest neighbour and allie a nation can have.

Are there any left?

any chance i get...i would rather pay a little more and know that the money i spent went into the pocket of someone in my community instead of major corporations trying to drive out small private owned businesses all over the country...:2 cents:

backed 100%...:thumbsup

OK.. briefly as possible..

The USA is a wonderful part of the American continent... Only me, but I doubt folks actually realise this and take it for granted.

Environmentally, the USA is also a region which is being demolished rapidly. There are many forest areas where clouds of pollution have literally killed off many 1000's of hectares - ya gotta see the before and after pics - it's damned sad. Tho this is common with some other regions on the same latitude - eg China, where they have plans to do exactly the same thing, but not implemented this fully to show the effects.

A lack of environmental policy, or one which leans towards dollar values, is extremely detrimental to the US. It's not sustainable to have an area with only 5% of the world population consuming approximately 25% of natural resources.

The US has been an innovator in many areas of technology and science, tho appears to have missed out in the manufacturing and export sectors. Manufactuing industries are now very weak.

Economically, the US has few trade surpluses. The only remaining trade surpluses are in wheat and arms. Meanwhile, imports to the US are high and causing foreign debt to build to a level which, again, is unsustainable. The US is rapidly becoming the world's major creditor and, at this time, there appear to be no solid foundation or criteria on which these loans can be repaid. Several debtor nations and companies have elected to purchase US companies/assets, tho the reasoning appears to be twofold in that debts are converted to assets and also further opening up of the US market. This trend appears to be increasing.

Taxation in the US is more of less on par with similiar highly-geared western countries. Taxation spending is in excess of tax income. There was a "tradition" over some decades to allocate approximately 30 cents of tax revenue on arms and military forces, tho this has increased over the last few years.

The channeling of tax revenues into military resources places the US outside the normal pattern of other western countries where taxpayers can personally see extra benefits for their taxation in comparison to the their counterparts in the US. This is clear from areas such as health and education.

Bottom line... The above is only a small part of the picture, but probably mentions main elements. The US is equivalent to a business in a serious financial condition and with minimum stock in the warehouse. The business is maximizing it's loans to pay it's overheads, but without a strategy to sell product to earn a profit to repay loans. On the environmental side, the business has contracted to place a mushroom cloud of pollution over it's premises. The employee benefits and pension plans are being cut or removed to avoid the business going bust. Meanwhile, competitors in the business are moving ahead at a rate where it will be hard to catch up. The management of the company are very aware of the situation, but as is not uncommon, in a state of denial.

Only my :2 cents: worth, but the US very seriously needs to get a grip of the real status of the world, quit relying on cheap imports (which are not cheap in reality), forget trying to be the world's policeman for whatever reasons, start innovating and developing on a serious scale with a view to exporting and changing that killer trade balance, adopt a genuine environmental policy, get a fiscal policy moving that is sustainable and with a view to addressing the issues of it's own people as regards to health, pensions and education.

Little doubts... if there is no change, the spiral is moving downwards.



PS.. Despite that, I like the country and it's people - who couldn't?

1) Constitution
2) Capitalism

Almost everything else is an offshoot of those two.