Topic: WTF is wrong with America? - page 6. (Read 6638 times)

Since I was not born here, and they don't want me takin' their jerbs, would it be fair for me to not give them any jerbs in my business, too?

Yeah, pretty much If you're not born there, they don't want you takin' their jerbs.

Well, I only have to pay 16k a year for the 51st ranked University in the US.

Live free or die. 

I'm obviously just bitter about tuition costs and my student loans...

The public school system in Texas blows ass, too.  I'll thank 43 for that one!

Is it sad? We have one of the largest populations with a wide range of languages and cultures. It's hard to educate that many people. Compare it to Finland, which has a measly 5 million people, but has the "best" educational system. Finland is able to have a more in depth educational system because there's so few people. They also have 91% of the people speaking the same language, versus the US' english speaking population of 80%.

Also, 17th out of 196 countries is not bad... That means that the US is doing better than most of Europe.

@BitCoiner2012:  I was being silly.  I'm an evol furn'er myself.

So sad...

You'd think we could at least crack the top 10, but for some reason we just don't seem to give a shit about education.

Tuition prices skyrocketting in the last decade, while the economy tanks.  Rich get richer, poor get pooer, yadayada... congratulations, you graduated college!  Time to repay $30k of student loans!

Awesome. "Foreigners" work and provide for their families just as you do, immigrants built this country and continue to bring work ethic and intellectual capital.


Normal people are the ones who need guns.. this is crazy to think Americans should be unarmed in the face of a threat domestic or foreign.

I don't support guns, but a lot of people do, especially in the US. You can't lump in an independent organization promoting a right (whether you agree with it or not) with the likes of the NSA.

But not to give untrained people guns. That's the stupidest idea ever! A few year old kids already killed each other! And psychopaths have the easiest opportunity to kill people.
Normal people don't need ANY guns.

Cry more about living in one of the nicest countries on Earth.


The US has the 17th best education system in the world, according to Pearson.
http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/


What country doesn't have religion?  Also, you can see that there's really no correlation between atheism and quality of life. Plenty of low quality of life countries are at the top.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country


Well, I might want to eat my words on the education, but...
Economic Freedom: http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
Not as good, but it's hard to measure political freedom: http://www.freedomhouse.org/report-types/freedom-world
Of course, in a country where gays can't even get married I wouldn't call our country "free", but we're certainly up there.


Name a country who doesn't.


First off, that's impossible. Second, the US has been involved in 106 conflicts since its inception (conflicts include any military action; read the link to see what I mean). GB (and the UK) has had 121 conflicts (since 1700). Russia has had 54 conflicts (since 1700).  PRChina has had a wopping 9 (since 1907).

USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
GB/UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Great_Britain
Russia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia
PR China (note that this article sucks): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China

I'm sick of counting wars, but I'd recommend looking up Spain and France. They've more than likely beat the US.


Look up any imperialist country...


Actually, you do have a choice. Don't like either candidate? Vote independent or run yourself.


That's why you have a computer 
Also, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pornography_laws_by_country


Every country has these sorts of organizations. Also, NRA?  National Rifle Association? I thought you wanted freedoms?

You forgot scientology

A man who gets paid a salary which is 10% of his administrator overlords, yet he is 1000% more productive.

Great point, LOL. But in this day and age, the "new world" imposes very stiff visa blocks.

Those sneaky bastards who pretend to be working shit low-paying jobs, but in reality...

foreigners? u mean all those Englishmen, Spanish, Portuguese, Germans, Italians etc that have been immigrating into both countries for the last couple of centuries? 

We had a fucking dumbass of a news commentator demonstrate on live TV that that's, in fact, not true, when he tossed a live frog into a boiling pot of water, and it instantly died from being boiled alive. He later on tried to claim that it was a rubber frog, which if was true, and he knew the frog wouldn't have jumped out, would have made his prior speech make no sense.

Pathetic liar.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593990-38/gun-rights-groups-join-new-challenge-to-nsa-surveillance/

The poster was trying to ridicule the topic, unfortunately that doesnt work with people who know whats going on(90% of the world by now) in "The land of the free"(ROFL already). The constitution has been violated so much, that it can be moved to the rare books section. But hey, the only thing important and worth fighting for is the 2nd.

I would even say it's quite common.   It's usually the biggest critics of gay people who turn out to be gay themselves.

But that's probably not what the poster was referring to (I'm not sure what he is talking about).