For those who criticize the USA....... If there is a better place you would like to go, then I will help you pack yer sh!t.......Just give me yer address, I'm off weekends and have a truck......I will also provide website info that sells bus/plane/train tickets and give you a ride to your local station of choice.....Otherwords, run for political office and do something to change whatever tou think is broken, if you believe it will help....No country is perfect....I agree the US is not........If not, you have no room to complain, so go to work and pay your taxes....If you like poverty/terrorism, then ask the kid in Africa who gets one meal a day (if lucky) with flies in his face how much his family paid in taxes last year..($0.00)....Then ask an Iraqi kid the same..
2006-07-12 03:14:46 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Free speech is great, but also greatly abused.....If you are just using ot to complain, then what good has it served...
2006-07-12 03:22:52 · update #1
How many complain about the gov't, but have never contacted their Congressman.. Complaining is fine if you are following up to change what is wrong... Just complaing to yer buddy or a stranger does nothing...
2006-07-12 03:25:56 · update #2
I think the problem with the US is that it forgets about those people it doesn't necessarily like. It is a GREAT country, I love being an American. But the pursuit of happiness, fair treatment, and freedom don't exist throughout this country.
Our legal system and educational system OFTEN fail us. There are murderers (OJ) that are allowed to run the streets because of a technicality. Cops racially profile so I get pulled over and searched OFTEN because I have a nice car and I am black. There are school boards that are creating brand new schools in the white neighborhoods with the top teachers, but the schools across town are falling apart and the teachers are horrible. The ghettos of America are hopeless traps that it is almost impossible to come out. I could reshape the complete federal welfare system to alleviate those fools that steal from it EVERY month with $15 million. None of our politicians are moral role models - we're having them arrested for assault on officers, complaining that they money they possessed was illegal BUT the search that found it was as well, and please don't get me started on our leader Mr Bush. In my opinion he is destroying our country and some of the rest of the world.
2006-07-12 03:32:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Roman Emperor Julian (360-63 A.D.),
In the area of tax policy, he (Julian) showed sensitivity and perception. He understood that the main reason for the state's fiscal problem was the excessive burden of taxation, which fell unequally on the population. The wealthy effectively were able to evade taxation through legal and illegal measures, such as bribery. By contrast, the ordinary citizen was helpless against the demands of the increasingly brutal tax collectors.
Previous measures to ease the tax burden, however, were ineffective because they only relieved the wealthy.
- if people don't speak up and say what's wrong, then anyone would have the perception that nothing is wrong.
- We have the freedom of speech, and the freedom to say we don't like this or that. Telling us to leave or shut up is against the first amendment. It's Un-American.
BTW, I do believe we have the best country in the World, but it can be a lot better, and I plan to do everything I can to make that happen.
2006-07-12 03:34:39 · answer #2 · answered by ColvinBri 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I too get tired of hearing all the US bashing, when it is THE greatest country in the world. There is absolutely no where else I would ever want to live.
There is too much poverty right here, and I for one, think we should take care of our own before we take care of others. It's not that I have no empathy for others, I do. But I see too many homeless and hungry on our own streets every day.
No, our country is not perfect. But we have the opportunity of changing whatever we don't agree with by voting. Not all countries are that lucky. We have the opportunity to SPEAK UP.
You are definitely right ! " do something to change whatever you think is broken ". If only more people would get up off their butts and vote on whatever they believe needs to be fixed...rather than just sit and take whatever comes their way, be proactive rather than just say " oh well...that's just the way it is ". Those are the people that have no room to complain.
GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!
2006-07-12 03:43:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Been all over the World. Lots of places with better living standards. You just have all those tricky immigration laws you have to deal with when you move.
But it sounds like you don't love it since you don't think people have the very basic right this country was founded on.. the right to complain about it. Maybe you should take that truck and drive right on down to Mexico... Maybe you can find a way past those immigration laws.
2006-07-12 03:20:16 · answer #4 · answered by bretto24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love my country and support a government I don't agree with. That being said I feel I have every right as a tax payer to question my government.
Please do not confuse bashing a political parties as bashing the country. Our "leaders" do not make this country great...we do, in spite of them!
USA land of free speech
( I have weekly conversations with my city council woman and monthly on the state level as I am a member of a PAC)
2006-07-12 03:26:28 · answer #5 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
R U relate to Bush Whacker ?sounded like him in a way, this is free country, U can complain or criticize anything U want as long as U pay tax,and U don't have to ask those people ,ask the homeless in the state first eh
2006-07-12 03:26:36 · answer #6 · answered by Wiseguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats funny because I thought we were allowed free speech in this country...
Also I see it as my DUTY to speak up against what I do not think is right in this country and to fight to change it. That is what America is after all...
It shouldn't be "love it or leave it" is should be "change it or break it'
I do love my country... but I am not so gulible to believe that it is perfect or the best. Does that make me a tratior? No. It makes me American, and not a mindless machine that agrees with everything that I am fed. F*ck what we are force fed! \
Amen bretto24, whoisgod71, and vmv1970!
So grow up or shut up.
2006-07-12 03:18:44 · answer #7 · answered by Kamunyak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not un-American to criticise the government. It is actually more patriotic to criticise our leaders of the country than to just give them a nod of approval now and then. It shows that a person cares about the direction their country is headed and stays current with the political happenings.
To say that someone is not patriotic for criticising the government is ignorant (let me define ignorant for some people, because I know it will be miss-construed by plenty. Ignorant: not knowledgeable on a particular topic - doesn't mean you're stupid). I have criticised Republicans and I have criticised Democrats. I more fiercely criticise my own party than I do the Republicans.
It's our civic responsibility as good citizens to keep the authorities in check and to ensure that our rights as individuals and as a country are not being destroyed. It's our job, as members of a democracy to question every level of government, every individual in power, and every action taken by our leaders. Otherwise, it turns into a monarchy with power.
Don't give up your power by NOT criticising your government. It doesn't make you anti-American, it doesn't make you anti-Bush, it doesn't make you anti-anything. It makes you pro democracy and it makes you active in helping to fulfill the promise of America.
2006-07-12 04:13:14 · answer #8 · answered by iu_runner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have very little understanding of what ideals America was founded on and what it stands for today
See, America is a representative democracy. What that means my little 4th grader is that if we don't like something our leaders are doing, we have the power to change it. We also have the right enumerated in the first amendment to say that we don't like what our government is doing. Apparently you don't "love" America if you aren't willing to tolerate dissention because that is one of America's highest ideals.
Complaining, voting, being politically active make for a better America. If I have some problems with my government, I'm going to stay and make things better.
If you prefer a totalitarian state as opposed to a free one, I suggest that you leave and find one to live in.
2006-07-12 03:20:56 · answer #9 · answered by whoisgod71 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, nice propaganda. But the US was founded on the basis that citizens are always free to criticize their government. It is called the 1st amendment. And we have lots of poverty here. People have the right to their opinions. Suppressing that just makes us like every dictatorship that our government criticizes. Is that what you really want?
2006-07-12 03:20:12 · answer #10 · answered by Squashie16 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋