Is America becoming a third world nation?

Is America becoming a third world nation?

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The sheriff's department adapted. "We have no patrol units. There is no one on the streets. We respond to only crimes in progress. We don't respond to property crimes," deputy sheriff Ron Fenton told Maclean's. The county once had a "very proactive" detective division in narcotics. Now, there is no detective division. "We are down to one evidence officer..."People are getting property stolen, their houses broken into, and there is no one investigating. We are basically just writing up a report for the insurance company."

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This is actually getting news and getting noticed of the turning point of the United States that they are going to a economic meltdown and as said "turning into a 3rd world country", sounds quite disturbing but afterall, many bad choices carry allot of negative weight on there back and it's only a matter of time before everyone starts to notice.

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I'm not too comfortable with such an assertion.... I suspect it is more correct to say that parts of America are beginning to appear more like a third world country.... for now.

Americans have a desire not to become 3rd world citizens though, any former British occupied territory for that matter. That desire is a strong one, it is highly unlikely Americans will allow that to happen.

reply to post by Daniyal

The real problem is the municipal debt – the money owed by cities and towns. As Shawn Tully notes in Fortune magazine, these 'municipalities' get about a third of their revenue from the states that they're in. But if the states need to hold onto that money to patch up their own tattered budgets, then the cities and towns won't have enough to pay the interest bills on their own debt.

"The states will secure their own shortfalls, and leave the cities to fend for themselves," says Whitney. Effectively, the cities are the weakest link in the chain. They're the ones that will end up going bust if anyone does. And investors aren't prepared for that, she reckons. "I see a lack of transparency and an abundance of complacency on the part of investors and politicians, just as we saw before the banks imploded."
Scary stuff. And obviously this isn't great news if you live in one of these states. We're all fretting about 'the cuts' looming on the horizon in Britain. But some of these cities will have no public services left by the time they've dealt with their budget problems. Taxes will have to rise, all of which will drag on America's 'recovery'. And the threat of another property bust would just make the whole situation worse.

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They should work on getting Illegal immigrants to pay taxes. They cut Medicaid and pay out almost 30% than they receive. Something is wrong with this picture. I think there are about 30 or more states ready to go bust and may stand in line for a Federal bailout. This is putting a bandaid on a cut artery! To print more worthless money. I do expect crime to become rampant in all cities soon.

It is rapidly falling into 3rd world status. When you "dumb down" everything from education to package labels down to its lowest common demoniator in the name of "fairness" for 80 years and 4 generations, that's what you get: the lowest denominator.

With corruption running wild in our Government I would say we're more of a BANANA REPUBLIC....

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I believe that is very true looking at the current circumstances in the present and what caused it in all it's past. The U.S turned itself very downhill as said by making very wrong decisions that are now playing there role and putting pressure on the U.S and it's people.

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Not even close, but with the way the country is being handled by the corrupt totalitarian regime, who knows where it will end up.

They are stealing your money, and you don't even know it, legally, under the law.

reply to post by oozyism


Also very plausible with this defaming nation which is careless for it's people and selfish for it's greed. Happy to live here in Canada!

I think we are headed to a 3rd world country. Government ahs already showed us, including the FED, they only care about themselves, nto the commonwealkth of its people, unless your an illegal alien. Us law abiding tax payers always get hte blunt end of the stick, and shoved in some more. we do what were todl, and they make it worse. illegal aliens can get a better job than you or mme, evade paying taxes and they get sympathy* hell look at the corporations..outsourcing to 3rd world countrys. well since the corporations, and congress runs like one..thiers your answer* they dont wanna pay the higher salarys to hard working american citizens, benefits and all that goes with it...they can find some joe shmore form inida, ecuador ect willing to work for much less and put out more productivity. they dont want us to have that american dream..the god given right and pledge, to have a house family, 2 or 3 cars, and above all being intelligent* that would maybe explain why our education system sucks, compared to the rest of the world.

Police brutality has risen as weve all read, and so has the cost of living no thanks to wall street and corporate america, which would require you to have at leat 2 jobs* and no family of yuor own in order to have a comfortable living* thats what they do in 3rd world countrys...they want us to go to sweatshop labor* so in a generation or 2..its though of as being an acceptable way of life* thats my view of it*
we need to go to town ahll meetings, congress meetings, and throw oranges, cabbages, eggs and milk at them, public emabarrasment to our leaders since all they seem to do is leech any money form us. handshakes and penmenship is weak and if its business nice to do..proper* its only making us weaker and easierr for them to find loopholes to screw us over anyways* buy american made whenever possilbe* lets get our economy going agian, and remind the FED we dont need their help afterall* unless they side with us

The USA became the superpower by winning WW2.

After WW2 the economies of every major country was destroyed while countries like India, USA, Soviet Union and Taiwan thrived due to not having the war fought in their backyards.

This may be hard for many to believe but India emerged from WW2 as the 4th strongest economy in the world

en.wikipedia.org...

After the end of the World War, India emerged as the world's fourth largest industrial power and its increased political, economic and military influence paved the way for its independence from the United Kingdom in 1947.[5]

Every country was forced to buy American goods since the USA was the only game in time capable of producing the high tech exports needed by many to rebuild their factories and cities. As a result the USA's GDP and standard of living skyrocketted.

With the collapse of the USSR due to a long series of intervention, and the collapse of India due to poor governance of India. The USA ended up being the sole superpower of the 1980's-1990's.


But such a thing is not permanent, the American superpower was built by pummeling the competition, not by economic foresight, good governance, or intelligence/creativity of the populace. It was only a matter of time before the economies of Europe and Asia rebuilt themselves to their period of former dominanace.

in my opinion* not doing so, will only leave doors open for government to take more of yuor freedoms to be taken away...turning this country socialist or communist* probably socialist by todays standards. cerfews set, military patroling the streets... and its all to protect the upper 1% who used to pay the highest taxes, which made sure our highways were paved and created, programs were set, ect ect..all simnply to kee us under restraint control to protect the FED, governemnt and upper 1% thier scared of us* the anger we might unleash because of thier tranny* im am free and will DIE free* maybe we need to send some footnotes to congress and the upper 1% CEO's slavery ended 250 years ago ya know> blacks in the norther army, civial war , were payed much less money than whites. today, its simialr, but not reagarding race..well as long as yuor not american it seems* makes me think of the movie..glory. thiers a scene, whenre the gather to collect thier army checks. because the regiment wa black, they were payd $9 instaed of $13...so one guy in the crowd yells out loud tear it up tear it up teear it up...uncle abe got himself a real bargain here*
i think remarks like that should be made today.. yeah uncle sam got himself a real bargain here*

ll maybe more like the CEO charimen of the FED got himself a real bargain with us* or myrl lynch and Reagen, since he seems to be the guy who started all this in 1980 with ronald reagan* being passed over for an illegal immigrant who payed ZERO taxes and has the support of local law enforcement ot top it off* at least where i live thats hows it is. Bush junior altered things when he got into office, suporting capiltasim. we were told it was good ,, yeah for those few making the money and knew the right people* its really nothing more than a lottery cooin machine..most of the time you pull the handle your going to loose* and the lottery machine, is the system the FED and bush has sert into place* GREED and power for the select few*

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I pray on your ignorance, the illegals were propping up the system with an influx of illegal money and taxes, but all the illegal haters blaming them for all the problems drove them underground and back home, no more free money to prop the failing systems up.

Believe me you, that was a whole lot of money too, and before you say it NO THEY WEREN'T GETTING GOVERNMENT AID!!!!

Can't get it weren't entitlement to it NEVER GOT IT...... but the cities,states and federal government were raking in a boatload of those taxes , yes they paid taxes.

reply to post by svpwizard


Do people like you really believe that illegal immigrants are the reason for our economic collapse? Okay, so illegal immigrants cost us some billion dollars. Okay, that's a lot. If we're going to admit that than we should also acknowledge the fact that the US is basically a 13 trillion dollar economy and will likely continue to grow in the future. The US isn't going to be a 3rd world country any time soon.

The elites just won't let other people see the holes inside our system. They won't let it crack. They want to maintain their grip on the system. If they don't maintain their grip on it they would likely destroy the stuff that they won't have anymore. IDK. Those are my thoughts. You can laugh... but look at Goldman Sachs.