I <3 America!!!

[Royd]

Of course we should be proud of our nation but we shouldn't be blinded by that pride so that we don't take action when there are things that are blatantly wrong. We have politicians running on platforms where they preach that judges and politicians who don't agree with them should be killed....of course they couch it in catch phrases so they can't be taken to task for it later but it's out there.
We have a country that would rather pay hundreds of dollars to see the latest, greatest football player or rock star who gets paid millions of dollar than to pay an extra dollar on their taxes so that underpaid teachers will stick around to teach our undereducated children.
We have big businesses who would rather pollute us and sue us than research technologies that will clean our world and heal us.
Is this just in America? Oh no, but we're supposed to be better, more idealistic, younger, more energetic. We should be fixing this world of ours and charging other countries for the technologies we develop instead of being the biggest parasite on the face of the earth. We consume more and waste more than anyone while we produce less. Something has to change and only a country with the vision and energy that Americans have can do it.

Wow. There's a post that's just filled with pride for the country, in which you live...I'd hate to see it, if we really had problems.​

 

[farmerlor]

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Wow. There's a post that's just filled with pride for the country, in which you live...I'd hate to see it, if we really had problems.

Thank you. I am very proud of my country.

 

[Royd]

IMO this left and right horse pucky, is a big part of the problem. These grave issues that face our country should not be partisan. Yes one can have liberal or conservative thoughts or ideas, but again it need not be partisan. IMO..

You are right. Yet, it seems that in certain sections of the country, when met with a crisis, some just stand there, with their hands out, saying, Gimme...In other areas, everyone grabs a shovel, and gets with the program.
Sadly, politics is the reason we have swaths of this nation, who believe it's the government's responsibility, to be sure that they are fed, clothed and housed, and that's where the dividing line stands.​

 

[Organics North]

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Wow..

Is not the point that we have a weight issue in the United states? Do we need a study to tell us this? Is something wrong with a first lady taking on obesity as a project? It is tradition for the spouse of a sitting president to take on project such as this. Heck look how active Nancy Regan was.

Why so angry?

ON

 

[elizabethbinary]

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You are right. Yet, it seems that in certain sections of the country, when met with a crisis, some just stand there, with their hands out, saying, Gimme...In other areas, everyone grabs a shovel, and gets with the program.
Sadly, politics is the reason we have swaths of this nation, who believe it's the government's responsibility, to be sure that they are fed, clothed and housed, and that's where the dividing line stands.

I never thought of it like that before.... some day I'd like to sit and have coffee with you. I bet it would be fantastic conversation.

 

[mom'sfolly]

 

[Organics North]

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You are right. Yet, it seems that in certain sections of the country, when met with a crisis, some just stand there, with their hands out, saying, Gimme...In other areas, everyone grabs a shovel, and gets with the program.
Sadly, politics is the reason we have swaths of this nation, who believe it's the government's responsibility, to be sure that they are fed, clothed and housed, and that's where the dividing line stands.

I see your point... We have had that conversation before. I do not fully disagree, but I do not see it as clear cut as you state, and surely not a Democratic/Republican issue, both spend our tax dollars like mad.

ON
(Yes I am still a liberal socialist..)

 

[KristyHall]

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You add smilies and say you respect someone's opinion, but your past couple of posts seem kind of mean.

 

[Ec_Prokta]

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