f**king USA
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- melk0
I think you guys are failing to understand that the mentality of the USA is so infuriating to the rest of the world. Sure the USA is a successful economy based on militaristic gain from WW2 (ie US companies rebuilding Europe and SE Asia) as well as post war nuclear paranoia (the growth of the Defense industry in apparent "peaceful" times) and that yes the US gives aid to many countries around the world and that you have the "best democarcy in the world" (florida ballot debacle) and that you want the world to share it (invasions of most of central america, annexing of Costa Rica, CIA involvement in the deaths of over 4 million people in South America during the Cold War) so i guess we are a little envious of your success as a nation in the ability to be so rich. But the problem we have is that you and your government have no respect for human life - the US people as well as the rest of the world. The USA has a "working poor" that is people who work full time (upwards of 45 hours a week) but earn below the poverty line (best guess at that value is what someone would recieve on the lowest social security payment) who make up nearly 20% of your working population. you have no health care for people without private insurance and are so afraid of competition from other economies your government has some of the most tariff heavy import laws in the world - yet you push your "free market" ideals to the rest of the world
so yeah maybe other countries get a little anti-american from time to time but when you are constantly told by americans how great their country is and how much better yours would be if you'd just bend over and let the US run your economy - but you can't spell the name of our respective countries, let alone name the capital or the head of state you are trying to negotiate/depose can you really blame us?
now that all said i think the US has some really great things about it, with some incredibly creative minds coming out of it, so it all aint that bad