Why America is in the Toilet

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Well, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy aren't exactly places where people are secular and the economy is doing great.

And the US does not have kings and queens that don't work and live off American taxes.

And I am in Latin America, where there's no separation of church and state in many countries.

Oops.I misquoted that,it's: America,a melting pot where the scum rise to the top.I can't remember exactly who said it.

You can trace it back as far as Woodrow Wilson.

ruveyn

Let's not forget China who has apparently chosen a modified version of European governance. (They are not communist, they are Chinese.)

Back in WW2, most of Europe was bombed to hell and back. America was largely untouched. This is why America is still struggling against that 1950s mentality - in order to revolutionise, you need to tear down what's already there.

It also helps that European nations are all bundled together. Diplomacy is much more relevant when you live next to your enemies, and it fostered tolerance and even friendship. Between the poverty of Mexico and the friendliness of Canada, America is so starved of neighbours to fight with that its biggest conflict was with itself...

most countries are failing due to greed and social control and engineering by governments. its in the governments interests to keep most people as poorly educated as possible.

Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece are POOR European countries... they all are considered Southern Europe, and I thought I made it clear I was talking about NORTHERN Europe and WESTERN Europe that are rich.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJbKQClO540&playnext=1&list=PL66C30F080FE1F225&feature=results_main[/youtube] American tax dollars at work.

Literaly in the toilet.

These three countries have one thing that makes them poor: Catholicism. France pretty much neutralized with a strong separation of church and state, but these three countries never did it properly.

Actually America is not a young country. France and Italy have not been nations for as long as America has. Arguably America has the most ancient unchanged form of government in the world, aside from maybe somewhere like Bhutan.

The U.S. is the longest lived constitutional republic under a single constitution.

ruveyn

For all my criticism of the body politic in the United States, it is a very myopic commentator indeed who claims that the United States is, "in the toilet," or lagging in any meaningful way behind Europe nations (or the OECD, generally).

Economically, the United States continues to be sound. It has an enormous fiscal policy gap that must be closed, but when people stop running to the dollar for cover, Congress will be forced, finally, to give up its political cowardice and tax at a level necessary to meet the programs that it seeks to fund. There is also a huge income gap, which will lead, inevitably, to a paradigm shift away from fiscal conservativism towards a more equitable distribution of wealth.

Politically, the United States continues to present all of the hallmarks of a free and democratic society: free and fair elections, a free press, rule of law, protection for minorities and property rights. These may not be perfect, but recent events in Pennsylvania should serve to remind us that these foundational elements of democracy continue to exist.

Socially, the United States is presented with challenges, to be sure. Some stem from her fiscal policy mess, and her failure to adequately fund programs (like education and health care). Some stem from her failure to use the public sector to drive adaptation in the labour force. But life in the United States for the vast majority of residents continues to be safe, secure and comfortable.

There are countries that do certain things better than the United States, but when examined on a broad basis, the United States is every bit as well advanced as the countries in Western Europe. Only 12 countries score over 0.9 on the Human Development Index--and the United States is one of them.

If a woman gets married and changes her name, you don't start counting her age again from zero. Much as some women might like to. France and Italy have been around for thousands of years, and all that history still counts. It doesn't all get thrown out because their status changes.

America, meanwhile, has pretty much wiped out the indigenous population and has thus only about 250 years of history to itself. It is a young country.



Which is part of the problem. People, technology and political climates change, sometimes drastically. The refusal to change the constitution to any great degree has made it an anchor to national development.

Yeah but we have CEOs that do.

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