What does the world think of The United States of America?

Tarshibear said:
americans or septic tanks as they are also referred to over here are both admired and loathed. i think it's a mixture of things...the ego, "the most powerful country on earth" bit, the "everyone wants to be us".
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Um...I thought it was "Septic YANKS"...a play on words.

At least that's what an Aussie gal told me back in the late 1980's.

Maybe the vernacular evolved over the years, yes?





















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Though I am making every endeavour to change *my* particular personal mindset....

Till then, I would appreciate if you all allow me to hold the Official Mantle of resident Bitter Misanthrope here at WWBM.

:smt036 you, bitter?
 
Blacktiger2005 said:
I'm one who could care less what the rest of the world think of us. I say lets stop being the world's policeman and welfare host and start taking care of the homefront first. Reduce or eliminate foreign aid, stop trying to get peole to love us and let them take care of their own countries. We got too many people in this country who are willing to kiss ass and kneel to anyone who just think negative about us.
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TCFLORIDAGIRL said:
Exactly! We are so busy helping other countries, we are not seeing the devastation on our streets, homeless Americans who are suffering. Don't believe it?... Come here and see, on every street corner there are people begging for help, so many that our city is handing out vests for the people to wear while on their corners.....how sad that our beautiful country has come to this...
It is true, because of our weather here, makes for a perfect place to live in your car (if you have one) or on the streets...sad. :(
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Could you imagine if the gov spent all the money they spent on the last couple of wars on homeless/disadvantaged people, education, unemployment programs/traingin, etc....it would probably be utopia lol
 
karmacoma. said:
Helping other countries = charity. Helping our own country = socialism.
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lol

that's the best post i seen from u since i been here

:o

it's so true tho...we help others before we fix the shit that's wrong here.

then when we try to fix our own dirt, people cry foul and say 'get a job.'

SMDH


but yeah really who cares what they think...

they can all suck a nut
 
FRESH said:
Could you imagine if the gov spent all the money they spent on the last couple of wars on homeless/disadvantaged people, education, unemployment programs/traingin, etc....it would probably be utopia lol
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When Ronald Reagan got into office, the ENTIRE National Debt was $400 billion dollars. When he left office it was $2 trillion. Every Republican since him has doubled the debt. When they were in power, they didn't even pretend to care. But now, in order to return to power, they act like they give a sh-t...
 
Anten7 said:
When Ronald Reagan got into office, the ENTIRE National Debt was $400 billion dollars. When he left office it was $2 trillion. Every Republican since him has doubled the debt. When they were in power, they didn't even pretend to care. But now, in order to return to power, they act like they give a sh-t...
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Ah yes, Democrats are the saviors and Republicans are evil. :roll:

I'm tired of that song and dance. It's getting really old.
 
Bookworm616 said:
Ah yes, Democrats are the saviors and Republicans are evil. :roll:
I'm tired of that song and dance. It's getting really old.
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It's neither a song or a dance - it's the plain truth. The Republicans took a $400 billion dollar defecit and turned it into a $12 trillion dollar defecit in 20 years. Republicans are inartful at diplomacy; insensitive to its citizenry; incompetent with fiscal management; and just plain intrinsically inept...
 
Anten7 said:
It's neither a song or a dance - it's the plain truth. The Republicans took a $400 billion dollar defecit and turned it into a $12 trillion dollar defecit in 20 years. Republicans are inartful at diplomacy; insensitive to its citizenry; incompetent with fiscal management; and just plain intrinsically inept...
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Look under the columns of Senate Control and House Control and tell me who really brought up the National Debt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms

Neither party is innocent.
 
Bookworm616 said:
You're right. Because the Republicans and Democrats won't allow a third party to be viable.
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The incompetence of the Tea Party is not the Democrats' fault. The fact that Tea Party supporters have been embarrassed by their inept leadership is - in a word: "fate." Both the Tea Party and the Republican Party need to drift off into extinction. They're not just worthless - they're useless...
 
Anten7 said:
The incompetence of the Tea Party is not the Democrats' fault. The fact that Tea Party supporters have been embarrassed by their inept leadership is - in a word: "fate." Both the Tea Party and the Republican Party need to drift off into extinction. They're not just worthless - they're useless...
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People who have blind faith in any one thing scare the shit out of me. I'm not going to lie.

You really think the Democrats are the saviors of the American people? You're misinformed. No one party is the savior of the American people. If the parties don't start working together, this country will never be the best it can be.
 
Bookworm616 said:
People who have blind faith in any one thing scare the shit out of me. I'm not going to lie.

You really think the Democrats are the saviors of the American people? You're misinformed. No one party is the savior of the American people. If the parties don't start working together, this country will never be the best it can be.
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working together?:smt009 I believe the parties were formed to not work together. They are there to divide by just existing.


I agree with you that we should work together to fix this but it is more complicated than this work together. If you and I have two different ideas on how to do it, how do we go about to fix something if the ideas conflict against each other? such as tax cuts. How do we know that the ideas are wrong or right? That is certainly a problem. :smt017
 
Bookworm616 said:
You really think the Democrats are the saviors of the American people? You're misinformed. No one party is the savior of the American people. If the parties don't start working together, this country will never be the best it can be.
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Why on Earth do you keep using the term "savior?" What I'm talking about is the epic failure of the Republican Party and Tea Party to provide a viable view point for the common good of the United States. You're talking about Far Right Wing Jargon and disinformation.
 
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