“People also forget that both white and black laborers, whether called slaves or indentured servants had the opportunity to buy their own freedom.”
Well, isn’t that nice. At least the system was fair.:rolleyes:
“While the fact is that our economy drives more than half of the worlds economic engines goes largely ignored by those who benefit.”
Of course, we drive these economies solely out of the goodness of our hearts.
“All of South and Central Americas, Africa and recently a good part of Asia rely on money earned here to keep them from bankruptcy and anarchy.”
You do realize that we rely on other economies for stability as well, right? World economy, right?
“We packed up and defeated Nazism even after the atrocious behaviour of Europe after the first world war we won for them.”
What were the brits doing during WWII? What about the russians? Oh yeah, fighting the nazis too, and giving us the entrance we needed to win the war AS A GROUP. After all, if it were just us and the germans, the war would have been much different.
“American economic boycotts of South Africa did more to end apartheid than anything any native African attempted.”
People dying over there resisting the unfair system sure seemed to draw our attention well enough. But their contributions are moot, apparently.
“The Japanese only have affordable oil because we sell them what comes out of Alaska.”
We do that for cash and for interests in the area, not because we want to be like santa claus.
“The US and Russia have the worlds largest oil reserves and production ability we don’t need the Arab oil, we’re looking out for countries that haven’t been able to care for themselves for the last century.”
Yeah, that’s why we’re looking at drilling more. We use foreign oil, I’m not sure who told you otherwise, but they were wrong.
“Think hard, we export oil.”
Think harder, we also import it.
“For those of you not on the current page, the last 50 years have seen massive reparations to American Native Peoples and they are financially, educationally and doing better than most. The Indian nations exist as free econimic, social and political entities. Oh and they recieve aid money also”
Haven’t been on many reservations, have you?
“We even send food and money to Russia and if you didn’t know, they worked against us the longest and hardest. They unlike the Chinese, never defeated us in battle and never saw fit to take us on directly. Hey even after we fought to a stalemate with them in Korea and set up a DMZ there, we eventually freed up enough technology/trade in the past 10 years to make China a modern nation in every sense.”
Wow, it’s amazing how you took the chinese completely out of that equation.
“Come to New York and see the cities we built for our disenfranchised, the massive projects that have been turned from affordable housing to free housing, to gang and drug infested ghettos by the inhabitants.”
Build a ghetto and you’ll get a ghetto. Ghettos don’t usually start from GOOD housing.
“See the people who do not report crime to their police force and expect police protection.”
If the police cannot become a greater power in an area than gangs, then what good is calling the police if you get killed for it? You expect standards of selflessness that I suspect that you could never live up to. Could you risk your children’s lives in order to report a crime?
“Visit nation within a nation that attacks firefighters who come to put out their fires and rob emergencey services workers who come to aid them in their hour of need. Come and listen to them cry about the level of crime they create, tolerate and maintain by themselves. Try to remember they get free medical insurance, educational aid, public schooling, money for college, food, SSi benefits, housing and the privelidge of living in nation which has not had war on our soil for over 140 years. While those who do work, pay taxes and pay for their own housing here do not.”
What a handy generalization. You mean, working folk would never cheat the system, making the gap between themselves and the extreme poor even bigger? And all those people in ghettos get all those benefits, eh? Your vision of social security involves a pretty **** efficient beaurocracy spreading all that money around, if all those people are all getting those benefits. Oh right, they’re not. I forgot. It was just a post, not reality. Silly me.
“When you see all that for what it is, the fact that we feed, power and clothe the rest of you as well as our own, it is no big surprise that you have ended up as ungrateful, weak and dependent on us as you are.”
Assuming that ‘what it is’ is anything more than hperbole you heard on Rush Limbaugh.
“Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who get to spend my tax dollars and will never contribute to my countries wealth, whether you live here or afar. I know your not grateful but that’s because you’re embarressed at your own failures and need for our charity.”
Well, it’s not really charity when you don’t even sound like you like doing it, and will cry if you don’t get credit for it despite that fact, is it?
Frankly, they weren’t really ‘bashing america’. On top of it, all three histories, from what I’ve read, are completely spurious in relation to Thanksgiving.
The fact is, it’s a little duplicitious to celebrate a myth where we got along with the natives who we rather efficiently turned around and exterminated, and if you think that’s country bashing, you’re clueless on history. I can far better prove that we killed natives on purpose than you can prove that we ever even wanted to get along with them as a nation.
Nonetheless, I hope you had a good thanksgiving as a day to be with family and give thanks. But as a day to celebrate the native-european joyland that was early america? Get a grip, it never really was for long enough to count for much of anything. It’s a myth, like the easter bunny and santa claus.
who you tryin to fool, fool.