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OpenMindedRealist
[. They are told that all countries, cultures, and systems of government are basically equal (just different).
luciddream
How many US citizen have passports?
How many have actually left their country and seen other countries?
luciddream
I see some Americans(the ignorant ones) as a fish in an aquarium, being taken care by their owner...... it doesn't know about the lakes, the rivers, the oasis or the ocean. All you have to do is condition them to believe everything out there is evil and out to kill you.. i mean tek yer freedom!
OpenMindedRealist
[. They are told that all countries, cultures, and systems of government are basically equal (just different).
crazyewok
What a bunch of yanky doodle BS.
Id rather live in Norway and Swedon than the US of crappy A anyday.
Hell Id rather live in Canada
American Arrogance
"I'll be as callous and uncaring as you can imagine. I have no interest in paying for your health care. I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine. I'm going to pay for my health care, I'm going to take care of my children's health care and tend to my wife. And when I stand for charity care (inaudible), you [and] no one else has the authority to infringe on my right (inaudible) dig into my pocket and my ability to pay for your health care or anybody else's."
BardingTheBard
Has anyone asked you to come over here or said you should or that there is something wrong with you if you don't?
BardingTheBard
So what's your beef? Why are you putting so much effort into trying to point out how *awful* someone else is and superior you and the places you would choose are? We become that which we... ahh never mind.
BardingTheBard
I notice you didn't actually address anything about the core subject regarding the *actual factual* difference in the fundamental structure of the different countries.
BardingTheBard
You don't have to want to participate, but when people point out that "there *is* a difference" you just jump over to "US of crappy A" and attempts and mocking name calling and claims of bull#.
Cabin
reply to post by Skyfloating
Conservatives in Europe are nothing like conservative in US..
crazyewok
Actually I have been. My department moved from the UK to the USA and I was invited to go with them. Got offerd a Greencard and everything. Turned it down
crazyewok
I just dont like RAR RAR American excepsilisim crap. American are trhe same sacks of meat that me and everyone else is. Your not more evolved or gods people or what ever you think makes you so special.
crazyewok
Fact is there is more than one way to run a country and more than one way to measure success. Plus if American were so Special and exceptional then you wouldnt be on the verge of bankruptsy and economic ruin.
crazyewok
And those countrys that are makeing things work will likley be draged down by the USA comeing collaspse.
BardingTheBard
Nobody is living under the "American System" any longer. The United States system operating right now is the UK/European System that existed before the United States was founded. The system 'bringing everyone down" is the system the UK and Europe embraced hundreds of years ago when fractional reserve bankers got their fingers in permanently and have never let go. A system the founding Americans rejected.
Aloysius the Gaul
Except for het minor point that fractional reserve banking didn't exist before 1776.......
And the US was perfectly happy to work with the banking system that did exist in 1776.....
Oops..!!
BardingTheBard
Aloysius the Gaul
Except for het minor point that fractional reserve banking didn't exist before 1776.......
And the US was perfectly happy to work with the banking system that did exist in 1776.....
Oops..!!
I'll give you a chance before I fully reply.
Is it your assertion and claim to truth and honesty in your representation here... that there were not banks, governments, and organizations tasked with holding gold/goods prior to 1776 which were putting out more promissory notes for payment than they had stocked in their vaults?