I'm an American-Israeli. I live in Israel right now, but I lived in America for most of my life. I go to an international school and CONSTANTLY hear Italians, Russians, Canadians, South Africans, every single nationality you could possibly imagine making fun of America. My US History class would have been more accurately titled "lets see how America fucked up in its 225 years of existence" and it got really OLD after about 1800.
Let me tell you, living in a country that there is NO constitution in is not all that fun. The stuff that you just wrote? ONLY because of the US constitution would you be allowed to say things like that. You go live in another country and try and say stuff like that. The American justice system is not perfect, I'll admit that. But it is the best in the world. The Miranda rights, Gideon V. Wainwright, INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY...all of these things are so important. In every other country, they don't put up with all of that. Education is lacking, I'll admit that. But when people like Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida, tried to give educational vouchers to better schools for families, everybody screamed. The upper classes of America are paying nearly 50% of their gross profits in taxes for medicare, medicaid and social security. I'll tell you, I see alot of people living below the poverty line driving cadillacs and having their hair and nails done and screaming about upper class oppression. If they spent that money on FOOD they'd be better off. People lech off of the system, THAT'S why it doesn't work. Instead of just sitting here bitching, you see a problem? Write to your congressman. Do something about it. And remember, a good deal of the world's population would give their arms for american citizenship. Don't waste yours.
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Date: 2001-08-25 09:35 am (UTC)Let me tell you, living in a country that there is NO constitution in is not all that fun. The stuff that you just wrote? ONLY because of the US constitution would you be allowed to say things like that. You go live in another country and try and say stuff like that. The American justice system is not perfect, I'll admit that. But it is the best in the world. The Miranda rights, Gideon V. Wainwright, INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY...all of these things are so important. In every other country, they don't put up with all of that. Education is lacking, I'll admit that. But when people like Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida, tried to give educational vouchers to better schools for families, everybody screamed. The upper classes of America are paying nearly 50% of their gross profits in taxes for medicare, medicaid and social security. I'll tell you, I see alot of people living below the poverty line driving cadillacs and having their hair and nails done and screaming about upper class oppression. If they spent that money on FOOD they'd be better off. People lech off of the system, THAT'S why it doesn't work. Instead of just sitting here bitching, you see a problem? Write to your congressman. Do something about it. And remember, a good deal of the world's population would give their arms for american citizenship. Don't waste yours.