What is up with America?
Firstly…. no one can accuse me of being xenophobic or generalising because everything i state in the following is fact, and you can easily look it up yourself.
Why are Americans so proud to be American?
In a country that boasts to be the most powerful and richest in the world…. why are its citizens only entitled to health treatment in a hospital if they can afford the extortionate medial insurance fees? All countries in Europe have free medical health systems (over 70% of which are in the top 95% in the world) which have proven to work perfectly well for the last 50 years or so, depspite America saying it would never work. Many surveys have shown that 40% of all Americans live without health insurance because they can’t afford it, or if they can afford it they are unable to get it because they have straightforward medical conditions such as diabetes or asthma (I think there are about 200 basic medical conditions that exclude people from being eligible for medical cover). Basically, if you can’t afford the medical insurance…. the government leave you to die………….. even if you are a fireman working as a volunteer at the world trade centre and later develop fatal health conditions as a result
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_arising_from_the_September_11_attacks
A privatised education system which leaves an embarrassing amount of school leavers (2 million per year) illiterate and innumerate:
http://education-portal.com/articles/Grim_Illiteracy_Statistics_Indicate_Americans_Have_a_Reading_Problem.html
The rest of the western world figured out 60 years ago that privatisation doesn’t work….. but the U.S. government insists it does, and insists on telling its citizens it does….. (or are they more concerned about which sponsors for their state schools will pay the highest contract fees, so that they make more money and the citizens see no rewards)?
Richest country in the world?
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/04/poverty_numbers.html
then why are 38 million people or 14% of the population living below the poverty line (Highest in the western world)……. number 2 in the list of countries in the western world is Spain (which until 15 years ago was still considered a 3rd world country), hot on Americas heels with 4%.
I find it hard to understand why Americans are so patriotic and proud to be Americans when their government treats them like rubbish and they insist they are the best country in the world, and why they take great pride in telling Europeans how much better they have it over there than here.
From endless comments from places…. the classic one being Youtube is the sense that Americans are insecure and feel threatened by other places in Europe and the western world that the only thing they can do is throw abuse and rude comments to other people telling them they are worthless, wrong, and inferior…….. despite inexhaustable evidence to prove the contrary.
i dont think many more than half of americans are proud to be americans. if you are told to love your country you end up loving it. our government is garbage, and alot of people that i talk too say there may not be an america in fifty years as in the last decade the whole thing has begun to unravel.
so why are we patriotic? because we were the first modern democracy, and we try to protect it at all costs. I am not proud of my country, or my government. i am proud of the people of this nation, and all of those who fight off the people who want to kill my friends and family here.
February 16th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
We’re too wrapped up in our overinflated egos to get our act together. Any American who sends me more hate mail for my opinion is only reinforcing my point.
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February 16th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Our health care system is based on profit instead of the patients health and some people want to keep it that way.
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February 16th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
I guess that the good news is that America does as well as it does under all of it’s crushing problems. It looks like with a little effort, we could do a lot better. Maybe we’ll wise up starting with public schools.
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February 16th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Honestly, I feel no pride in being American. I think what our nation has done is disgusting. Millions of Native Americans were murdered and their land was stolen, millions of Africans were enslaved, U.S. military bases are all over the world, third-world countries are being exploited by our government and mega corporations and our country pretends that it’s helping them with aid. And don’t even get me started on the ridiculous wars we’ve been fighting under Bush AND Obama.
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February 16th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
because they are not the only but one of the nations that was build and established by huge number of people from different origins and reached high place in education and in industry and they simply are ruling the whole world by their own policy
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February 16th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
i dont think many more than half of americans are proud to be americans. if you are told to love your country you end up loving it. our government is garbage, and alot of people that i talk too say there may not be an america in fifty years as in the last decade the whole thing has begun to unravel.
so why are we patriotic? because we were the first modern democracy, and we try to protect it at all costs. I am not proud of my country, or my government. i am proud of the people of this nation, and all of those who fight off the people who want to kill my friends and family here.
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my humble opinion
February 16th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
a big cuntrie
asslee feef antibacareolono
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February 16th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Yup, More reasons to go to Finland
I totally agree, and I’m going were it’s cold enough to keep the idiots out.
and I’m taking my money with me.
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