harmonic said:
Other.
Like the people for the most part, except for the general laziness, fiscal irresponsibility, and anti-intellectualism sometimes seen here.
Dislike the system as it has evolved. Founding ideas were perfect.
I will say that I'm glad I was born here in America. I've been to Britain, Germany, Italy, Bahamas, Peru, Argentina, and Japan, and in my experience, the USA is the best place to live. We're law-abiding, generally polite, everything in America is huge and wide open, everything in America is ultra-convenient. Party on.
For all those saying "America sucks they're so selfish they only went to war cuz of a submarine blah blah blah": Some folks need to do some real research on history, society and culture before spouting off these hateful, and ignorant remarks. Most Europeans I personally know have a great respect for their close allies in America, and for good reason. We cover your whole continent with our military and political clout so you can afford all those fancy health care systems (that you can't actually afford.) Don't bite that hand that feeds you.
I totally agree with you.
My uncle found out the real reason people in other countries harp on the US. It is because they are jealous and want to live here. My uncle use to go on a ton o business trips to many places in Europe, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland to name a few. He would hear many people he worked with over there bashing the US. He was pretty well acquainted with the people he worked with over there and every once in awhile he would hear about when one of them would retire. Guess where they retired? Oh wow could it be, they retired in the US, well why the hell would they retire in a place they said they hate?
He asked these people after they retired. They told him that the majority of US bashing that people do in Europe is just bluster and fake-ness. In reality, they love the US and want to live here.
But with the crap that has been going on here, with Obama trying to turn this country into a carbon copy crap hole of a system like other European countries.
Obama Socialist Idealists: We need a National Health Care system hurp-dee-durp.
Me: No, we can't do that because it is an even worse and flawed system than the one we have and can't be implemented because we don't have the money to fund covering everybody.
OSI: Huuurp-dee-duurp. We can borrow more money from people/countries. We also have a printing machine, huurp huurp; we'll use it to print more money, duurp duurp. Oh and we can change the tax system so that we can take more money from the rich and spread the wealth around, huurp-deeeee-durp.
Me: You do realize what you are doing with the first two things is going to collapse the economic system. Eventually the people we are borrowing from are going to come an collect and they aren't going to accept that worthless paper you are printing.
OSI: Duuurrrp, they will never collect.
Me: Why is that?
OSI: Because.
Me: That's not an answer. Again why?
OSI: Because they won't.
Me: Yes they will, and you are just ignoring it.
OSI: They won't because it will hurt them as well.
Me: Not if they demand land and other goods that can be substituted for this fake money we are printing.
OSI: Huuurp, they can't do that because they can't ask for those things.
Me: Whatever, nevermind, you are just thick. Oh and onto the taxes thing. Yeah, that is called forced charity, and besides, you can't tax certain people more because that is unfair and is against what this country stands for. If there is to be taxes in this country, people are to be taxed an even percentage. With an even percentage, the rich will be paying more but it is fair because it is equal when comparing the amount of income. By the way, what do you consider to be rich?
OSI: Huuuurp-deee-duuurp, if a person makes at least 250,000 dollars a year, they are rich.
Me: Uh, nope. You do realize that in major cities 250,000 dollars a year is barely middle of the middle class, plus in most other areas it is just barely upper middle class.
OSI: Huuurp, $250,000 is a lot of money no matter where you live, duuuurp.
Me: Forget it, you are impossible. You just want to give money to people that don't do crap for it so that you can get re-elected and run this country even further into the ground. Hopefully people actually think correctly for a change and vote people like you out come election day.
OSI in their heads: Huuuuuuurp, drat he's onto our master plan. Let's run a nasty smear campaign of lies against people like him, that will make the blinder-wearing and uneducated people think that people like him hate the poor and want all the sick people to die.
