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Post by Bret Walker on May 28, 2003 10:11:28 GMT -5
Oh yes, thank you so much Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair, for setting international relations back to cold-war standards. Amnesty International, in an 311 page report released yesterday, has said that the actions of the US and British governments have not made the world safer, but more dangerous, especially in terms of human rights issues. Fan-fucking-tastic. I'm all agog.
Read the entire story hereMakes you really happy to be an American, doesn't it? (I mean, for all you Americans reading this). On another note, what do you people reading this from other countries think about the US and Britain, and why? (I'm sure Kex has some opinions) |
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Post by Kexpakki on May 28, 2003 15:44:38 GMT -5
On another note, what do you people reading this from other countries think about the US and Britain, and why? (I'm sure Kex has some opinions)
Yes i do
The US goverment thinks it is allknowing and everything it does is right just because they do it
They justify everything they do but when other countries do it they go CRAZY!
and the American people are ignorant and blind they dont have any idea what goes on outside the US and whats with you hating the French? they were just one of many goverments who werent afraid to tell the US that they didnt like the war
I mean there were protests all over the fucking world but why the French?
i could write more but im not in a political mood
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Post by Bret Walker on May 28, 2003 17:01:38 GMT -5
MOST Americans feel the way you described. Some of us free thinkers (non-sheep) do not feel that way. I for one don't hate the French or the Germans, and the reason they were singled out is that their embassadors to the UN used their veto vote in the Security Council to shutdown a UN resolution to go to war with Iraq, which the US summarily ignored anyway.
What really gets my fucking goat is that the US is founded on freedoms, freedom of choice, freedom of speech, freedom of religion - and yet apparently not the freedom to disagree with the policies of our country. So basically we're free to speak our mind unless it's in disagreement with our so-called leaders (who, I might add, were never fucking elected by a majority vote in the first fucking place).
In my opinion, any "American" who says that people should blindly follow our government are distinctly UN-American.
Thanks for your input, Kex. ;D
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Post by Kexpakki on May 28, 2003 20:16:12 GMT -5
Oh...i got another one
YOU HAVE 2 POLITICAL PARTIES!!!
AND THEY ARE BASICLY THE SAME!!!
so your basicly free to vote for Capitalism and nothing else
The US is run by fasists the only differens from that and the Nazi's is that they dont want people to know
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Post by Bret Walker on May 29, 2003 6:57:08 GMT -5
There is a vast difference between the Democratic and the Republican parties. Democrats are more for the working class citizens, while the Republicans are all about the interests of big business. Democrats believe in higher taxes to pay for things like education, welfare, social security, etc. while the Republicans believe that by giving huge tax cuts to the rich, somehow the money saved by the wealthy will "trickle down" to the lower classes (a theory that has been called bullshit by the very economists who came up with the damn thing in the first place!).
I don't disagree with your assessment that we're a fascist country, in that Fascism is defined as "Militant Nationalism," and all you have to do is to drive down the street to witness fascism flying from every car window, and stuck to every bumper. Buy American. Wave the flag. What other country in the world has people driving around with their fucking national flag waving out the window? It's retarded as fuck.
Still, I do enjoy the freedoms this country stands for. I love this country, I just don't like the majority of the people running it.
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Post by Kexpakki on May 29, 2003 15:33:10 GMT -5
and another thing
You have to have insuranc(sp?) to get Medical attention
What is up with that? some poor fellow is bleeding to death in the hospital but they wont even give him a hand?
that is just inhuman to not help a fellow human like that
In Iceland medical cost is included in the taxes so you get treatment no matter what
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Post by Bret Walker on May 29, 2003 16:15:16 GMT -5
Insurance is one way to pay for medical things in this country, but if you have no money and no job and no insurance, an Emergency Room will NOT turn you away whether you can't pay or not. They generally absorb the costs themselves, which is why everything else is so expensive for the people who CAN afford it. I'm no fan of Socialism either. I think everyone should have to provide for themselves, and if you can't well Oh well. Maybe that seems heartless, but why should one person have to pay for another's shortcomings? It doesn't make any sense.
However, all that having been said, the insurance industry in this country is out of hand. Costs are so fucking high, and a lot of the insurance companies (HMOs and POSes) dictate what procedures a patient can and cannot have. When the decisionmaking process is out of the hands of the patients AND the doctors and in the hands of LAWYERS, which is all the insuance people are, what a sad state of affairs it is.
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