Twenty Facts About U.S. Inequality

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Jun 3 2011, 12:23 pm
Keywords: inequality, poverty
Jun 3 2011, 12:58 pm
This country has long since been a joke in my eyes. I'm just sitting in the middle class section of the failboat that is America watching it sink into the sea that is economic decline.
Jun 3 2011, 1:01 pm
http://www.wikipedia.com
I think you belong there you ranter. I love the U.S, nothing is wrong with it, go rant on yahoo or something and leave the gaming world alone.
Jun 3 2011, 2:37 pm
The U.S is one of the only countries in with that your rights are free. The U.S is a very original and different country than others. It isn't perfect, but it's one of the best.
Jun 3 2011, 2:48 pm
If you live in America and don't like it, you're free to live somewhere else.
We don't mind.
Jun 3 2011, 2:51 pm
Oasiscircle wrote:
If you live in America and don't like it, you're free to live somewhere else.
We don't mind.

^This. <3
Jun 3 2011, 3:00 pm
The United States is a house of cards - it'll collapse soon enough.
Jun 3 2011, 3:20 pm
Hm. While these are all true Bootyboy, I'm disagreeing with the negativity below. The US isn't going anywhere for quite some time.

However, I have considered never particularly living in a specific country. I feel I'm the sort of person that would live in Germany, then Madrid, then Japan, and then somewhere else and keep doing so for my whole life. Until I get a family.
Jun 3 2011, 3:49 pm
CauTi0N wrote:
Hm. While these are all true Bootyboy, I'm disagreeing with the negativity below. The US isn't going anywhere for quite some time.

It's more so reality than negativity - something people don't like to face.

Remember Rome.
Jun 3 2011, 3:53 pm
Ancient Rome is way different from Modern North America. Get your history straight, dood.
Jun 3 2011, 4:08 pm
Masterdarwin88 wrote:
Ancient Rome is way different from Modern North America. Get your history straight, dood.

I never said they weren't different.
Jun 3 2011, 4:09 pm
You implied that they were the same in the way that they will both end.
Jun 3 2011, 4:49 pm
EmpirezTeam wrote:
CauTi0N wrote:
Hm. While these are all true Bootyboy, I'm disagreeing with the negativity below. The US isn't going anywhere for quite some time.

It's more so reality than negativity - something people don't like to face.

Remember Rome.

Because we obviously face severe military invasions from Canadian and Mexican armies.

In all reality, all of the world's superpowers eventually lose their spotlight. The U.S. won't disappear, and it certainly won't go away in the next few decades, but a decline will come because history mandates it. You all below just happen to be being incredibly stupid about it. I don't get why defeatism/pessimism is so popular these days.

Of course, you might just be trolling.
Jun 3 2011, 5:21 pm
I am not! I agree with you Vexon, but I am neither suppourting the common and popular "defeatism"/"pessimism" nor am I trolling/being incredibly stupid.


=/
Jun 3 2011, 5:59 pm
America is already in decline. China recently passed us in manufacturing and their GDP is expected to pass ours within the next ten years.

But I don't really care about that. I do care that our government has utterly failed us. 14 trillion dollars in debt and rising. Education and welfare taking a back seat to tax cuts for the rich. The bureaucracy has become large and unwieldy and our two major political parties bicker like children over virtually every issue.

Not to mention all the info Bootyboy has presented.
Jun 3 2011, 6:14 pm
Whatever the pro's and con's of america be, it is still the only successefully free country. And you all also forget that its pretty much a baby country when compared to others. It's only about 300 years old! And yet its considered a super power by many. So calm your horses, sir.
Jun 3 2011, 6:40 pm
Well any country in the world is on the decline if you want to only list the negatives. China has massive income inequality as well, human rights violations, environmental degradation, significant animosity with almost every single one of its neighbors and an aging population that the newer generation will be struggling immensely to deal with. I'm not even mentioning the whole Xinjiang and Tibet thing. And they're still the top candidate for Super Power 21. See how easy it is?
Jun 3 2011, 6:55 pm
Masterdarwin, saying that America is the only successfully free country is a very bold statement to make and it makes me wonder what they teach kids in school these days. You are aware that Canada is a relatively successful democracy right? As well as the United Kingdom, Norway, and several other countries in Europe? In fact, if we are to believe the study that results in the Democracy Index table (which I don't place much faith in myself) then America is about sixteen spots away from being the most democratic country in the world and even well behind our neighbor Canada.

It's attitudes like that which make the rest of the world laugh at us.
Jun 3 2011, 6:57 pm
Maybe because we are taught to believe in ourselves and in our country, and not to look at it this way. If you think it's so bad, then go to a "better" country.


Because argueing here will change nothing.
Jun 3 2011, 7:11 pm
Masterdarwin88 wrote:
Maybe because we are taught to believe in ourselves and in our country, and not to look at it this way. If you think it's so bad, then go to a "better" country.


Because argueing here will change nothing.

TBH, if I found a job in my field in Norway, I'd take it. Free Healthcare and an incredibly educated population from a nation that actually puts a priority on education makes me happy inside.
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