what is wrong with america today...

[Clint Strickland]

Hey guess, I would like to ask what you think is wrong with todays America? Me personaly, I think that the abortion is one thing wrong with America, also another is the continueing talk about President Bush, I mean come on we all have to admit that yes he has done things wrong but again what other president had to deal with what all Bush had to deal with. Like Katrina victoms, the war in Iraq, the tsunami, and now he has to worry about the levy system. I think he's doing a pretty good job.

Be free to post what you think, as long that it doesnt involve me .lol.
Thanks guys

 

[michaeledward]

One thing that is wrong with the country, is the lack of understanding of History.

Those who don't remember their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.

 

[Navarre]

Hey guess, I would like to ask what you think is wrong with todays America? Me personaly, I think that the abortion is one thing wrong with America, also another is the continueing talk about President Bush, I mean come on we all have to admit that yes he has done things wrong but again what other president had to deal with what all Bush had to deal with. Like Katrina victoms, the war in Iraq, the tsunami, and now he has to worry about the levy system. I think he's doing a pretty good job.

Be free to post what you think, as long that it doesnt involve me .lol.
Thanks guys

There are endless discussion about President Bush in The Study forum. This post would really belong there.

As I always try to make positive comments, I'll refrain from giving my opinion on the current administration.

You'll easily find many threads to continue your thoughts in The Study. Good luck, Clint.

 

[Floating Egg]

Religion, but that's not just a US problem.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Hmm. What's wrong with America?
- An electorial process that is outdated, bogged down with innefficiency and controvercy.
- Career polititians too busy taking bribes and keeping their positions than to actually do their jobs and read stuff before making it laws.
- Continued attempts to interject religious dogma and prejudice into government and law.
- A government out of touch with the people, and a people out of touch with government.
- Growing apathy amongst the general population.
- An increase in selfishness, selfabsorbtion, and such, combined with a growing decrease in attention span, concern and compasion.
- Too many people willing to jump on a bandwagon while at the same time refusing to do proper research into an issue in order to make an informed decision.
- The idea that bombs, blood and explosions are good, while boobs, bums and intimacy is evil.
- the idea that today is really that much worse than yesterday.
- and, the continued existance of anyone who keeps pitbulls named Fluffy as pets.

 

[Flying Crane]

Hmm. What's wrong with America?
- An electorial process that is outdated, bogged down with innefficiency and controvercy.
- Career polititians too busy taking bribes and keeping their positions than to actually do their jobs and read stuff before making it laws.
- Continued attempts to interject religious dogma and prejudice into government and law.
- A government out of touch with the people, and a people out of touch with government.
- Growing apathy amongst the general population.
- An increase in selfishness, selfabsorbtion, and such, combined with a growing decrease in attention span, concern and compasion.
- Too many people willing to jump on a bandwagon while at the same time refusing to do proper research into an issue in order to make an informed decision.
- The idea that bombs, blood and explosions are good, while boobs, bums and intimacy is evil.
- the idea that today is really that much worse than yesterday.
- and, the continued existance of anyone who keeps pitbulls named Fluffy as pets.

I'll drink to most of that!

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

We're a nation of pack-mentality super-individuals with an over-exaggerated sense of entitlement. Community has fallen by the wayside on our ever ravenous search for what's ours. Thanks be to all marketing and commercial barons.

pleh. This topic always leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

 

[DngrRuss]

Hey guess, I would like to ask what you think is wrong with todays America? Me personaly, I think that the abortion is one thing wrong with America, also another is the continueing talk about President Bush, I mean come on we all have to admit that yes he has done things wrong but again what other president had to deal with what all Bush had to deal with. Like Katrina victoms, the war in Iraq, the tsunami, and now he has to worry about the levy system. I think he's doing a pretty good job.

Be free to post what you think, as long that it doesnt involve me .lol.
Thanks guys

And they wonder why I drfink...

 

[tshadowchaser]

any country that will not allow parents to discipline their children without fear of being jailed is setting it slef up for problems
Taxes that are paid by the lower end of the economy scale and written off by the high end
to many people on one type or another of drug to make them. sleep, stay awake, have less tension, keep calm, etc. (notice I didn't say anything about sex drive)
laws so outdated they where in exsistance when this country was born ( i live in MA)
Laws worded so badly that lawers read a different meaning into them to suit there needs.

 

[INDYFIGHTER]

The loss of family values.

 

[Flying Crane]

The loss of family values.

Whose family? Whose values? hard to get a definition that even a majority would agree on...

 

[Bob Hubbard]

I lament the loss of strong family values too. But I never could choose which families values I liked. I mean, theres the Bunkers, the Jeffersons, the Mansons, and more. I finally settled on the Adams Family as I had an uncle who was kinda like that myself.

(Sorry, had to interject a little humor.)

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

I lament the loss of strong family values too. But I never could choose which families values I liked. I mean, theres the Bunkers, the Jeffersons, the Mansons, and more. I finally settled on the Adams Family as I had an uncle who was kinda like that myself.

(Sorry, had to interject a little humor.)

Frankly, The Addams Family showed remarkable values. They supported each other unconditionally. The went about their lives, doing their absolute best to get along all the while not only being nothing but themselves; but, absolutely insisting that others were true to themselves, too. Moreover. they went to great lengths to understand others without comprimising themselves.

Not a bad set of values, actually.

(Sorry, had to be quirkily pedantic with the humor)

 

[BlueDragon1981]

The political system.....the people have lost power to the few wealthy business owners and the crooks in politics.

Family values...what family values. Both parents have to work to survive. Without a family memeber home kids are getting less attention. Sociologists and psycologists both agree that being a part of a family and having someone around causes people act out less.

America cannot be the worlds police force...we need to keep business in america and we need to quit letting politics control everything.

 

[bignick]

America? Nothing is wrong with America....

It's some of the Americans that have problems

 

[Phoenix44]

Abortion? Of all the issues facing America today, the #1 on the hit parade of things wrong with America is abortion? Not the $8 trillion national debt? Not the 2,154 American troops dead in Iraq? Not the 45 million Americans withouth health insurance? Not the 12.5% poverty rate? But abortion?

And people talking about Bush is the problem? Not that he chose to start a war for no good reason? Not that someone in his administration exposed an American agent to take political revenge on her husband? Not that his policies have caused this country to be more bitterly divided than any time since the civil war? Not that he has hired unqualified buddies for government jobs of great responsibility? No, he didn't cause the hurricane, but his appointment to FEMA of Michael "heckuva job Brownie" Brown, a man with no emergency management experience whatsoever, certainly contributed to the unpreparedness, death and destruction--that wasn't a problem? But it's not Bush, it's talking about Bush that's the problem?

 

[Blotan Hunka]

whats wrong with America?

Its educated me, at times fed and housed me, its given me great family, friends, a wife and children. Its kept me safe and healthy and Ive had a lot of fun here and nobody screws with me unless I deserved it.

Whats wrong with America? Nothing as far as I am concerned. I love America.

Whats wrong with America? People who have lived off of her yet never have anything good to say about her.

 

[FearlessFreep]

I have a feeling that, one way or the other, five years from now, that people are going to view the war in Iraq quite a bit differetly. If in five or ten years, Iraq is a free democracy with a constitution and elected officials and equal protection under law for both women and religious minorties..then *however* we got there, a lot of people there will be glad we did, and a lot of people here will be proud we did. Especially if it is the *only* Islamic nation in the middle-east that can make those caims. If on the other hand, it descends into worse violence and the violence spills across national boundaries, it could plunge the whole area into civill war, and the US gets the blame, and the hatred...of the world, rightfully so, for what we have wrought there.

I have a feleing that this war in Iraq could potentially be a truly historic event, the kind which raises and topples kingdoms, the kind school kids read about in history class. I would greatly love to be able to look back on it from 300 years in the future to see what really happened and what they think of us in their history because of what we do today.

I have a feeling that we all would really want the first of those two outcomes, or I would hope so, regardless of political leanings or personal feelings about how the events got started or who started them

I have a feeling, 500 years from now and more, as future cultures look back on us, that abortion wil be one of the issues by which they judge us, however it turns out, however they in the future turn out Maybe it will be seen as tremendoulsly liberating, maybe it will be seen as tragically barbaric, but it will be one the the characteristics of our culture that marks us for all time. It might be worth putting some thought and maybe some serious, open, honest, and heartfelt discussion into it, before those of us who happen to share the attrribute of being 'alive today' as thinking and loving and hating men and women are reduced to merely 'those people who lived during that age'

I think if we ever really climb above rascism, that Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr and Ghandi will be mentioned in the same breath, and "the late second millenium" will be seen as a great turning point of humanity. Imagine being alive in a time like that.

We are too close to really understand what is right and wrong in American and with America. Unless you look at it through the eyes of a historian or an anthropologist. It's the only way to step back far enough to take the whole thing in at one time and actually be able to say "America is...", or "America was..."

History won't care about our fiscal policy or our two party squabbling. It probably won't care much even why we went to war, or how we sought to justify the things we do. They will see us in our values and tastes, our entertainments and accomplishments, who we chose as heros and how we treat our defenseless

Are you proud of what they will see now looking back at you today?

How you answer that, and by what reasoning, will tell you what is wrong and right with America

 

[BlueDragon1981]

America should worry about itself first. I don't believe we should be the worlds police force. America is great and i could say a lot of great things about it but sometimes you can't blind yourself. If you do the bad things will swallow you hole. It has problems and just ignoring them is not the answer. The political system is my main concern. They are going to tick someone off and innocent people of this country are going to pay.

 

[Henderson]

whats wrong with America?

Its educated me, at times fed and housed me, its given me great family, friends, a wife and children. Its kept me safe and healthy and Ive had a lot of fun here and nobody screws with me unless I deserved it.

Whats wrong with America? Nothing as far as I am concerned. I love America.

Whats wrong with America? People who have lived off of her yet never have anything good to say about her.

:cheers: I'll drink to that!