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Do you really think the american public knows nothing about the world.
Obviously you havent met an american. Yes our public school system sucks
but our universities are unrivaled throughout the world. And ther are
idiots, a lot of them, but there are over 300 million people in america and
500,000 idiots is almost nothing.
Just randomly talking, barely pertains to the situation- americas capitalist system, contrary to popular belief, is actually better for the whole than the individual. While socialism babysits its citizens and allows them to live comfortable lives, it doesnt incourage social, economical, scientific, and technological advancement because the generation that was born into socialism is raised in a very comfortable environment, with no need to work hard. They become content with the current state of affairs and have no incentive and no curiosity to discover new things or challenge the status quo, because they dont need to. Whereas a capitalist society isnt afraid to abandon the unworthy, if you dont work hard, you dont reach set standards, or if your just born dumb your of no use to the society, and you are left behind while the rest progress, just like in the US. In capitalism citizens are better rewarded for more effort, and they know that if they dont work hard they will not have a prosperous life, therefor they are encouraged to compete and attempt to be better than their fellow citizens, and the unintended bi-product of that is social, economic, scientific, and technological progress.
yeah, but unlike europe,, in america if your poor you can work hard and become rich, but most people dont work hard, so they they blame everything on the system, instead of their own faults. and poor people can easily earn scholarships, if they are actually intelligent and work hard enough to deserve it.
So the poor people who can only afford public school are pretty much fucked? You people are so socio-economically elitist.... Why you gotta hate on the poor?
All I have to say is that way too many of the commenters here are
criminally naïve and immature. It's amazing how much of the American
public grows to adulthood without ever gaining ANY kind of understanding of
the world and international conflicts and military necessities. It's
stunning how many supposedly American citizens are in favor of colossally
irresponsible and UN-American wholesale socialism, but refuse to understand
the absolute necessity of sufficient military spending in an
incredibly dangerous world.
Bead-wearing hippies, Lefties, pseudo-environmentalist greenies,
socialists, "progressives," liberals, and all of those who prefer spending
money on programs that are either flatly UN-Constitutional or criminally
irresponsible, such as obamaphones, welfare, "social justice," ILLEGAL
aliens, fraudulent S.S. disability, bloated federal bureaucracies and the
criminal Federal Dept. of "Education" . . . all of these people and their
treasonously wasteful spending on vote-buying through redistribution of
income are crowding out Constitutionally legitimate defense spending.
America has an increasingly immature, self-indulgent, irresponsible and
criminally naïve citizenry that elects an increasingly UN-American
political class that is destroying our country.
+Boyd Nar What's so naive and childish about hating war? You're calling me childish.... Grow up buddy, the military ain't everything that the government is for.
+Boyd Nar How is that class warfare... maybe I don't like war and violence and sending young people over seas, and maybe I just have justification.... I hate when rich old white conservative men send people they don't know over to defend their oil and money
i dont think you read any thing i just said. Im for teaching our own people What the law is so that when these white collar crimes do happen they will be punished. Alot of the issue is blue collar crimes being punished to harshly when it only effected 1-2 people. white collar crime can effect millions of people but goes unpunished or a slap on the wrist.
So you're for spending money on THE ONE THING that will lead us to tyranny and debt, which is the military. Our military budget is like way too big and is leading us into the fucking worst debt possible.... You are obviously one of the right wing red necks bought up buy the rich in the country so they can control everything that goes on.... NON OF THOSE MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES EVER WORKED MORE THAN 10X harder than the average working American. So why do they deserve more money? You people are so jaded and hate the poor and middle class people so much that you can only find yourself spending money on THE MILITARY.... I can understand have a larger budget than any other country, BUT THIS MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US AND CHINA, REALLY?.... No wonder we're in fucking debt all the time.
The issue lies with not knowing law. Our schools must. no need to teach law. We imprison more of our own population then any other nation on earth. How can people change our government when so many of them cant even vote. here lies the issue. We must not call for peace but prepare for war. We ( by allowing our government / military) have caused more people to rise to fight us then have created peace. The Reason we allow this to happen is based on the Big corporations That give media time / funding to the hypocrit politicians that dividing us va republican views or democratic views. We as a nation must not allow the elites to send our patriots abroad to fight "freedom". We need them here in america to fight the freedoms being taken away from us here.This party system currently is Devouring Washington and turning dreamers into followers of the elites goals and profits