What's your opinion on United States Of America?
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Good news: crime in lots of major US cities have been going down in the recent years and decades. (The obvious exception being New Orleans, which is perhaps a special circumstance.) If the decline continues these cities might be Canadian city-level crime in a few years. San Francisco and Philly could be seeing only like 50 homicides a year soon, in keeping with Vancouver. That would be a trip.
I'm just saying, progress is being made.
Yes it does. But this would only make a difference in a relative way. Iceland's population isn't as much as the USA's but its resources are not that great either. It's relative.
I think perhaps it's more accurate to say that large populations imply greater need for resources. It's not necessarily that there will be resources that can be consumed.
Any example: A household can be big, but not have enough money to feed everyone. The population is there, but the resources aren't.
Yeah, and the comment about Americans at the end wasn't really the topic of the thread either, but you sneaked it in. Keep in mind, all I'm doing is arguing that it's more difficult for a country to educate 50 million kids than it is to educate a significantly less population, a reasonable position I think. I don't think that says anything about what "Americans" can take into account.
This is interesting. Among a bunch of my liberal/Democrat friends, we call this Unexpected Patriotism Syndrome.
It's when an American leftist who normally hates patriotism in all its forms (people who usually clash with the uber-patriotic conservatives over whether all the pride is really justified) suddenly feels defensive for the US. It usually happens when the leftist is listening to a diffent point of view from a non-American.
It confuses us.
*thinks "I can't believe I'm being lumped in with Americans who think their country is the best ever. How mortifying."*
It's when an American leftist who normally hates patriotism in all its forms (people who usually clash with the uber-patriotic conservatives over whether all the pride is really justified) suddenly feels defensive for the US. It usually happens when the leftist is listening to a diffent point of view from a non-American.
It confuses us.
*thinks "I can't believe I'm being lumped in with Americans who think their country is the best ever. How mortifying."*
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I think the important thing to note with this thread is that in the title the key word is "opinion".
I think we should stick to the original thread.............nothing about education was even mentioned, but this thread seems to have morphed off onto education when it is just one aspect of a thousand that makes a country great. United States is the second best country in the world.
Some of what you say is very true, but I think after looking at Ottawa this past week I might tend to dilute # 5 a little. All political systems in the world have crooks, but at least the U.S. is light years ahead of regimes under the likes of Idi Ami, Kadaffy or Mugabbe.
Communism is the new American dream and the free enterprise system that America values dearly is dead.
America went from this
to this
All the work by the Amercan forefathers is gone.
Debt is slavery thats what the Christians teach the American people did not listen now they are slaves of the new world order.
Long live the people of United States Of America and may they all live through this crises intact.
I always thank God that I am a Canadian and I don't have to deal with this bullsh!t
America went from this
to this
All the work by the Amercan forefathers is gone.
Debt is slavery thats what the Christians teach the American people did not listen now they are slaves of the new world order.
Long live the people of United States Of America and may they all live through this crises intact.
I always thank God that I am a Canadian and I don't have to deal with this bullsh!t
I...I don't understand this ill-defined crisis that I'm just barely surviving apparently.
Also, the US Capitol Building is my favorite piece of architecture. It's much better now that they opended the Capitol Visitors Center because they have a place to put all the artwork. Before the Visitors Center, it was just all sitting around in weird places. Like next to the vending machines or in front of the restrooms.
I'm lucky I've met enough Americans to know that their grammar is not that bad.
No more tough than it would be for another country without enough resources to educate its kids, I'd say. Problems are problems. But, as I said the US has vast resources, and each area has a certain percentage of the population. So individually an area in say Idaho with 10,000 kids is no more difficult to educate than an area in Cork County, Ireland with 10,000 kids simply because of the numbers. Like I said, it's a relative thing, and if the USA had no resources it would have trouble educating 5000 kids.
So do the rest of the modern states.
Prove this statement please.
What does that even mean?
Not true at all, perhaps the last of the modern world to do so.
Not even in the top ten.
True of many nations, even Iran. Your youth are to busy playing video games and getting fat.
:lol:
....and other western countries haven't done this? Including my country which is one of the most diverse on the planet.
Umm, missed a number.
Yeah, you're kind and gentle when you're not blowing things up.:roll:
Freest? The patriot Act.
No...it's not.
