7 graphs that prove America is overrated

by Simon 152 Replies latest social current

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  Band on the Run

  We are slipping slidin' away and few people even want to compete. My lifetyle is going to be severely impacted by the America is God's Special Creation crowd. American history and law never stop them. It is only economic and health measures.

  I always forget the exact date of the Magna Carta, 1560s. John, King of England. Richard the Lionheart's brother. Emergence of England as a true nation. Bumpy ride. English bartons trap King John at Runnymeade and demand rights only for themselves. John has no choice.

  America is sliding down rapidly in any measure of civil rights and civil liberties. It is very embarassing. What we did in 1789 was amazing. It is not 1789 now. Most democracies around the world have much stronger written guarantees of liberty and freedom than in the Bill of Rights. What I was taught in grade school is completely untrue. Other countries do not just copy our Const'n for their own. They pick and choose measures with great deliberation. The end result is unique but they choose options from a sort of Chinese menu around the world. A few former American colonies just copied our const'n.

  Truth be told, I wonder if America was ever so amazing as Americans believe. Your tax dollars are supporting religous teachers as I write. The Supreme Court calls it indvidual choice and accomodation. Well, I call it unAmerican. I wonder what Paul Revere's ride was truly like. It was not Paul Revere but someone with too awkard a name for Longfellow to deal with in a poem. Maybe most colonials just decided to stay indoors and go to sleep early.
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  Band on the Run

  Oh, Justice Bryer went out his way to meet with the top judges of democracies around the world. They prepared papers and talked candidly. A book was even published. Now, though, everyone has to worry about the life of whichever justice cited the internet for the first time. We can no longer hide and indulge our fantasies. We have many great resources and character but time is running out...
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  villagegirl

  Joining the army for a free education ?

  In California Community Colleges where all kinds of technical

  skills are and degrees are offered are practically free @ $46

  per unit in 2013. Many State colleges offer subsidies, grants, and

  work-study programs. That means a full load of 9 units per semester

  is a mere $400. A professional certificate in 3-D rigging for animation

  is 30 units. Which means a certificate in computer animation costs

  you $1,380 , so your telling me young men are so ignorant they think

  they have to sign away their life for the price of a laptop ?
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  villagegirl

  "Gross interference with other countries" ? the USA ?

  Do you think Canada was unihabited when it was

  settled by the French and British ? Canada still has

  the Queen on its money, and was part of the British Empire

  which invaded and dominated most of the world. Canada

  is part of the Commonwealth of 54 countries who were

  colonies of Britian and are comprised of 30 percent of the

  world's population, 2 billion people. The USA was a colony.

  It was not the Imperialist. Had the USA decided to colonize

  all the countries it liberated from the Nazis then most of Europe

  and Asia would be part of the USA. The educational legacy of the

  WT shrieks volumes on this board.
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  jgnat

  Two words for you, Villagegirl. Manifest Destiny.
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  MrFreeze

  I turn to Lewis Black about this subject... NSFW LANGUAGE

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7mUaKUp8Ho
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  still thinking

  This....

  http://rt.com/usa/snowden-charged-espionage-sealed-092/

  Snowden faces execution as sealed complaint charges espionage

  US federal prosecutors have charged whistleblower Edward Snowden with espionage, theft and conversion of government property in a sealed criminal complaint, and asked Hong Kong to detain him ahead of a move to extradite him.

  SHAME ON YOU AMERICAN GOVERNMENT! SHAME....ON....YOU!

  The world is watching...and we are not impressed with your spying...or how you are treating good honest people.

  
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  villagegirl

  Ignat ? Manifest Destiny ? was a 19th century doctrine that United States

  would expand across the continent, from New York to California,

  from Mexico to Canada. All these USA territories were previously

  colonized by France, Spain, and England, and of course inhabited

  by indigenous people originally.

  The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was a deal between the

  United States and Napolean of France to buy the vast area of the

  entire middle of the continent including Arkansas, Oklahoma,

  Missouri, Iowa,Nebraska, most of Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota,

  Half of North Dakotoa, Montana,most of Minnesota

  and part of Wisconsin and part of Texas, all owned or claimed

  by FRANCE up to 1803.

  The Americans paid 18 million French francs to Napolean,

  for this huge territory, not a shot was fired.

  Mexican territory was held by privileged Spanish Nobilty

  who were given vast land in California, Texas and New Mexico.

  These were all colonies of SPAIN. The rest was colonized

  by England. Meanwhile - elswhere: The Turks had invaded nearly

  every country in Europe and North Africa and the Middle East

  forming the Ottoman Empire which was an occupation by force

  that lasted six centuries from 1299 to 1922 -

  Because the Islamic Manifest Destiny believed the entire world

  should be one big Caliphate. They still believe this by the way.

  Unifying the United States was still going on as a struggle

  in the 1860's Resulting in The Civil War Fought from 1861 to 1865

  the result of the war was territorial integrity and abolition

  of slavery. From the point forward the infrastructure building began.

  Roads, railroads, communications. Electric Power started in 1886

  and by 1936 there was electric power across the continent.

  By 1869 there was a transcontinental railroad linking the

  West Coast to the East Coast.

  Canada was doing exactly the same thing to connect Canada

  as one nation from Montreal to Vancouver. ( Canadian Manifest Destiny? )

  Demonizing the Americans is just ignorance of history and American contributions.

  You are using the Internet ? Invented by Americans. As was the personal computer.

  And its all about freedom of access and freedom of speech - how American.
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  humbled

  SNOWDEN IS CARRYING HIS BURDEN FOR U.S. FREEDOM. U.S. citizens need to back him. Are we free and fair? How many lights are there?
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  jgnat

  So, villagegirl, you've adjusted your description of the US from innocent colony to fellow imperialist?

  I continue to maintain that a country - or an individual - is condemned to live with its demons until it owns up to them. Every once in a while, some introspection and self-criticism is needed.

  An area I think Canada is behind in the US is in admitting that racial descrimination exists. At least in the US it is out in the open. In Canada, the landlord will politely refuse without letting on it has to do with the color of one's skin.