I'm not American, and certainly don't agree with everything they do, but there seems to be a lot of high horses here. It seems to be hip to demonize the country for everything that's ever happened. More brain use and less mindless hatred would be nice.
My friend was on a bus going up to NY from Maryland and a bunch of old women were bitching about the Occupy movement complaining about how they want their money lol. Like the 1% ride a flipping coach bus to NY. People are so stupid.
Also, another one of them was talking about how the poor in this country have it better off than the poor in others so they shouldn't be complaining. That's like telling gay people here they shouldn't complain about not having marriage equality because gays are being hanged in Uganda. I don't really see what is wrong about trying to find methods to help income equality be more reasonable in the United states. The income equality is terrible here. If the income equality was better we'd have a more fluid economy and the poor in the other countries would be better off too.
It's like people think they are going to be in the 1% one day so they don't want anyone to take their money away when they get there. News flash, most people are born into the 1%. Quite a few people in the top % (not all of them are bad) got rich not off hard work or ingenuity, but off the backs of the working class by pushing papers around, abusing laws, and getting hand outs. I don't see the evil in calling them out and trying to find ways to make sure people get rich because of their hard work and effort.
Anyway /rant off.
Another extremely uninformed post... Very few people in the US are in jail that don't deserve to be, but no system is perfect and innocent people do get sent to jail very rarely (that's true in any country with a prison system). Guantanamo Bay is another thing entirely, people don't get sent there for no reason, most of the inmates there were arrested on the field of battle. They shoot at innocent people from their helicopters? Well yeah, I suppose that has happened, but there's always civilian casualties in war. I do agree with you on the people being arrested for video taping the police, that's ridiculous. Our government had nothing to do with the mortgage scandals (other than they didn't stop them) - and the EU crisis has done much more harm to today's economy than anything that happened here. We didn't ask to be the biggest and the best, we ended up as the world's only superpower after WWII (which is a war that we were forced into by Japan). ACTA did not originate in the US, it originated in Japan. And I can say black anywhere I want, regardless of whether or not I'm referring to an African American or the color...
Like I said in my previous post, kindly shut the fuck up if you don't know what you're talking about.
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