As an American I feel it's not just my right, but my responsibility to point out just how massive, and all encompassing our failure is. Many still cry out that we are the best nation in the world, all while the statistics, and experience is otherwise. Some my rail against what they see as me being anti-america. They would be correct, I am against the America I see out my window, on my TV screen, and in cyber space. I have trouble understanding how your not as disappointed as I am. If there is a way for a nation to fail that America has not already failed in I'd be shocked.
If we had problems in just one area you might be able to say it was the exception, but on the whole America is solid. Our economy is touted as being the #1 in the world based on gdp. All well and good if we lived in fantasy land, but where I live when your top export to one of your biggest trade partners is trash. Your in trouble. You did read that right, America's biggest export to China is returning the packaging for all the goodies they make us. We act like it's Christmas everyday, and as long as we send the wrapping and boxes back Santa will refill them.
The ACA or Obamacare as it's widely know is a 10k+ page monstrosity. Seemingly designed to force people that don't use a system to pay for those that do. This debacle at health care reform is just another example of political theater designed to confuse, and bewilder. Mean while back in reality the rest of the world divests itself of the dollar.
So no economy, no health care, how about education? Well no again we are failing. According to the latest data America isn't even in the top 10. We don't even make the playoffs. No wonder the hi-tech jobs are leaving, we increasingly are unable to fill them. You can find a more detailed account of just how badly we are failing in this regard here.
There was for years the expectation in America that children would be better off then their parents. This is no longer the case, and unless fundamental changes are made we won't even recognize the country we wake up in. I have come to the painful realization that the country I was taught about was only a story.
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
If we had problems in just one area you might be able to say it was the exception, but on the whole America is solid. Our economy is touted as being the #1 in the world based on gdp. All well and good if we lived in fantasy land, but where I live when your top export to one of your biggest trade partners is trash. Your in trouble. You did read that right, America's biggest export to China is returning the packaging for all the goodies they make us. We act like it's Christmas everyday, and as long as we send the wrapping and boxes back Santa will refill them.
The ACA or Obamacare as it's widely know is a 10k+ page monstrosity. Seemingly designed to force people that don't use a system to pay for those that do. This debacle at health care reform is just another example of political theater designed to confuse, and bewilder. Mean while back in reality the rest of the world divests itself of the dollar.
So no economy, no health care, how about education? Well no again we are failing. According to the latest data America isn't even in the top 10. We don't even make the playoffs. No wonder the hi-tech jobs are leaving, we increasingly are unable to fill them. You can find a more detailed account of just how badly we are failing in this regard here.
There was for years the expectation in America that children would be better off then their parents. This is no longer the case, and unless fundamental changes are made we won't even recognize the country we wake up in. I have come to the painful realization that the country I was taught about was only a story.
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
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