The Worst 19 Problems of the United States!, page 1
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Topic started on 12-8-2003 @ 10:16 AM by CoLD aNGeR
This article is AWESOME believe worth to read the
19 points.
Enjoy the reading




1.Nuclear weapons: 6,000 nuclear weapons ready to annihilate the world. People have forgotten about it, but they are still operational and ready to fire. Russia has exactly the same amount of nuclear weapons ready to fire. They are not currently pointed towards the USA, but it takes about one minute to retarget them. A small mistake on either side could cause the destruction of the entire USA (and most of the world) in less than an hour. In 1999 the United States military spending was 2.5 times the total spending of Russia, China, France, Britain, Germany and Japan, a staggering 276 billion dollars.

2.Guns: 200 million guns (100 times the Iraqi army) and 35,000 people killed every year (the equivalent of many years of civil war in Yugoslavia). Firearm deaths per 100,000 people (CDCP, Bureau Of Justice Statistics, 1998): 14.24 in the U.S., 4.31 in Canada, 0.7 in Holland, and only 0.41 in England (where not even police carry guns). Which means that if you live in the U.S., you are 40 times more likely to die of gunshots than if you live in Britain. Murders by handguns (1996): 15 in Japan, 30 in Britain, 211 in Germany, 9,390 in the United States. Which means if you live in the U.S., you are 300 times more likely to be murdered than in you live in Britain. In 1999 Americans were certainly reassured that "only" 6,000 workers were killed by colleagues in the workplace, a 10% drop from 1994's figure of 6,600... but still just about twice the number of people killed by the Serbs in the Kosovo war. The scariest data are about the other 25,000 deaths by handgun: they are suicides and accidents. In the U.S. a child a day is killed by a handgun. If you define "terrorist" as "causing terror in the public", the N.R.A., the organization which protects guns, can claim to be, de facto, the deadliest terrorist organization in the world. It is not true that the right to bear guns is written in the Constitution: the Constitution talks about guns that were available at the end of the 18th century, and was written before the US developed a true army. It makes no reference to "every future evolution of guns". Therefore, the only guns that are constitutionally legal are the ones that were available two hundred years ago.

3.No universal health insurance: 44 million citizens without medical insurance (1999), or one every six citizens, which makes the US the last in the developed world, lower than Russia, China, India and even all of South America. Only a few African countries fare worse. Every year thousands of Americans die because they didn't have the money to cure themselves, and thousands turn into criminals because they can't pay hospital bills. If you have dual citizenship, you can always fly back to your country of origin and get good and free health care. But for most Americans a simple sport injury is enough to ruin their entire life. Whatever system America has right now (an absurdly complicated patchwork of benefits and providers that makes you miss the bureaucracy of communism), it is the most expensive in the world and one of the most ridicule failures in the history of medical care: the World Health Organization ranked the US only 37th among world's countries in the quality of health coverage (2000). It is embarassing that in the year 2000 the wealthiest country in the world still cannot offer free health care to all of its citizens.

4.Education: the American educational system is the most expensive on earth and one of the worst in the developed world. Scores of Americans with dual citizenship move back to their countries of origins when their children turn 6 or 7: they can get a much better education and even for free, and in a country where kids don't carry guns into school. It is embarassing that in the year 2000 the richest country in the world still cannot offer GOOD and FREE education to all children of America.

5.Family breakdown: single mothers, homosexual parents, 50% divorce rate, etc. This may also be the most important factor in creating the most crime-prone youth in the world.


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reply posted on 12-8-2003 @ 11:18 AM by Lukefj
Originally posted by uNBaLaNCeD
I always enjoy reading these skewed anti-gun things.
It seems no-one wants to take the time to really find out what the preferred way of killing someone is,just rely on the anti-gun goons to skew the numbers to advance their cause.

look into death from knives,they are much more abundant,I suppose now everyones knives should be confiscated,a UN knife mandate.


Speaking of skewing information. There is one very large difference between knives adn guns. Knives serve as a tool for many everyday uses, which are necessary. There is really no need for guns in everyday life, unless you live in the bush and need them to hunt, even then, a bow is just as useful.

Originally posted by uNBaLaNCeD
look into deaths by automobiles,accidental and intentional,wow,big numbers,everywhere,cars don't kill people ,stupid drivers do.


Again same argument as above. Cars serve a purpose in everyday life. Where is the justification for guns in everyday life? Protection? BS.

Originally posted by uNBaLaNCeD
The funniest thing is everyone seems to have forgotten the fact that they will die someday anyway,so what is the real point of worrying about any of this.


This is a ludicerous statement on so many levels. We all die someday so why don't we just pull a gun and pop people off as they exit the womb. The point of worrying about it is that I don't want to be rushed to my grave by some moron who thinks he has the right to possess a gun and use it to kill people.

PS. The metric system rules, do away with miles, feet, and inches, etc...you Americans are right on your heads!

[Edited on 12-8-2003 by Lukefj]


reply posted on 12-8-2003 @ 12:26 PM by ProudAmerican
Originally posted by ImAlreadyPsycho
The whole article was nothing but a load of anti american propaganda sprinkled with a lot of BS.

My thoughts exactly, do you not think someone could come up with a list of problems in any country? Let me know when you find the perfect country (I'll still stay here).

7. "Serial killers - they are basically an American exclusive."

NOT an American exclusive

- Pedro Alonso Lopez (300+ murders) Peru
- Gilles de Rais (140+ murders) France
- Luis Alfredo Gavarito (140+) Columbia
- Hu Wanlin (100+) China
- Javed Iqbal (100) Pakistan
- Bruno Ludke (80) Germany
- Andrei Chikatilo (52+) Russia
- Anatoly Onoprienko (52) Ukraine

Many more but I think I made my point. www.mayhem.net...

8. "Police - the single most important factor in creating crime in America."

Yeah ok, his explanation is pure opinion, no facts whatsoever.

9. "No vacations which results in stress and low quality of life."

Thats funny, we have a low quality of life here? Wonder where this idiot visited.
I'm sure if we took the most vacations he'd say we're lazy.

11. "Illicit drugs: virtually ubiquitous in all sectors of society"

Sorry, this is not strictly an American problem by any means.

"A person whose brain has been permanently retarded by marijuana is considered perfectly normal."

Is this his opinion? A burnout is not considered normal here, the bs is getting thicker and thicker.

13. "The US is the stingiest nation in the world for foreign aid."



14. "Metric system: in the year 2000 Americans still use gallons and feet and miles."

Where's the problem here? Is this the best he can do? Again, another opinion from an Anti-American.

He goes on to mention obesity and alcohol, these again are hardly problems restricted to the US. But as was already said:

"The whole article was nothing but a load of anti american propaganda sprinkled with a lot of BS."
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