reply to post by HIFIGUY
Hiyah HIFIGUY...
I feel your pain...I am bitter too and I will tell you why:
1) The Iraq war - I am bitter that it's taken this long and will probably take longer... many many years longer...to win this war due to the U.S.
trying to be politically correct and not just bombing the crap out of the place, out of our inept government not factoring in the insurgent factor, at
the U.S. listening to the U.N. for 17 years passing their meaningless sanctions on Hussein in the first place.
2) The U.S. allowing for over 27 years, the kidnapping, of our innocent civilians abroad, the murder of our people at the hands of these religious
fanatical Muslims bombing our embassies, highjacking our planes and other country's planes and cruise ships, executing our journalists, our clergy,
bombing, torturing and using biochemical weapons on their own countrymen, torturing and raping and mutilating their women, subjugating their own
populace and keeping them in the stone ages, genitally mutilating their young daughters, setting their wives and sisters on fire, stoning their women
to death, jihading their way through the 3rd world like locusts and turning every country into their religious battleground for starters, I could go
on here but I won't...
3) The Deficit spending is out of control, and as I recall, the Republican Congress started the out of control spending and pork barrel
bills...hence, paving the way for the Democrats to seize control of the House and Senate on the promises that they would stop it, and of course they
didn't.
4) The Tanking dollar has largely been inevitable, from the war, from the U.S. selling out our job market overseas for the last 20 years, NAFTA,
allowing foreign countries like China and Saudi Arabia to buy up every piece of real estate in sight to name a few. If you think the "tanking
dollar" got here overnight, then I have a Nike shoe factory to sell you in China, cheap, owned since the Clinton administration, very few miles.
5) The Home Mortgage Debacle - Just another example of greed on all sides...Lenders lending to people either too illiterate to read the contracts,
yet knowing they couldn't afford the house when the price went up, to the lenders selling the mortgages to 3rd parties overseas who didn't care or
even know the homeowners, a soul-less conspiracy of greed, stupidity and the fast buck all on display for all to see and weep.
6) LOL I can barely type this without laughing...NATO provoking Russia? I don't even know what to say about this. Russia has been taunting us with
their dealings with China, North Korea, Iraq, France, Cuba, Venezuela and outlaw countries in Africa to name a few, for years. Not to mention the
whole U.N. Oil for food debacle I guess no one remembers anymore.
7) The Salt II Treaty - Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter sign SALT II treaty, June 18, 1979...times change, see #6.
8) The soaring gas prices are the direct result of all the presidents going back to Jimmy Carter for sucking up to the Saudis and Big Oil...in Europe
and elsewhere the price of gas has been this high since at LEAST the late 70's. If we hadn't been in bed with the Saudis in the first place, our
prices would have been this high from the get-go, not that it's right.
9) Soaring food prices...well this is a misnomer, do you have any idea how much a grapefruit, a single grapefruit from our Florida groves cost an
average Joe in Japan? Around $7.00 a PIECE. This has been the land of plenty forever, we're spoiled and we're paying the price now, albeit not the
price other countries are are paying for THEIR food, if they can even GET food.
The next time you feel disgruntled about our country, or unpatriotic or just feel down about the economy...
Just remember, the poorest of our ghettos, our Appalachian communities, our homeless...live better then most inhabitants of any 3rd world country out
there.
Thanks for the post Hifiguy, I am not knocking what you say, it just chaps my you know what, when people in this country seem hellbent on "dissing"
it without really thinking about WHY we got to this point, and how bad it is elsewhere. This country of ours is a paradise compared to most other
places...and if you think it's not? Go live in India for a week, or Bosnia, North Korea, Haiti, The Darfur region of Africa, etc. you get the drift.
[edit on 14-4-2008 by LateApexer313]
