why do Americans ask so many questions about whats wrong with their country?

Question

And not get up and do anything about it... why do so many of you complain about things and still not even vote...

Answer 1

because they have the freedoms to do so.

Answer 2

It's sad isn't it? I am so surprised and at the same time ashamed at all the negativity......There was a time in our country where everyone pulled together and supported eachother. Yes, and during all the wars past...You had your protesters. like you do for all wars, and they have a right to protest.............But the numbers in support of what our presidents of that time were doing during all those different wars and everything else going on at the time were in the millions.People respected the President in office at those trying times, knowing he had a huge burden and that he was doing the best he could with all of his advisors, etc..
He may have been a Democrat in office or a Republican, but the majority of the USA understood, and supported their decisions
knowing they were doing the best for their country!..

Answer 3

Because we can, and everyone has their own opinion. It's a fun argument. You are right about voting. Most people don't realize how important it truly is and don't want to get involved. I wish more people would vote. Good question.

Answer 4

Good question. It's easier to sit on your butt and whine than it is to get up and make a difference. As for the voting, many of them believe that since they only get one vote, it doesn't matter. or maybe they are just lazy.

Answer 5

How do you know we don't vote? Why are so many americans clueless, and still vote?

Oh wait, it's because they are scared of gay marriage. I forgot. Idiots.

Answer 6

That is the beauty of it... we CAN question it openly... even if we don't do anything about it... our voices are heard (sometimes) and ... like they say.. "The squeaky wheel gets the grease".. so some problems are fixed.

Answer 7

B/C AMERICANS GO TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO LIBERATE, LOSE MANY OF OUR YOUTH, AND THEN PAY FOR THE DAMAGE WE CREATED IN LIBERATED THEM OR WE PAY MILLIONS TO REPAIR A COUNTRY THEN THEY BOMB OUR HARBORS, AND THEN WE GO TO WAR BLOW UP TWO CITIES THEN PAY TO REPAIR THOSE CITIES. AND I VOTE. NOT FOR BUSH OR CLINTON OR CHAINY.

Answer 8

Some are doing something about it but you don't seem to know that since you live in your own bubble....

Answer 9

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Adlai Stevenson

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Robert Green Ingersoll

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

The universe grows smaller every day.
The treat to security by any group,
anywhere can no longer be tolerated.
There must be security for all, or none are secure!
This requires giving up no freedoms,
Except the freedom to act irresponsibly!
Klaatu The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.

In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.

Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.

They make speeches about they must have taxes, and every politician knows what is being done in Alaska. Alaska Pays all their residents with earth rights and doesn’t tax their residents. This makes the politicians liars!

They make speeches to get elected and make promises about what they will do for us. They say nothing about getting every dime of lobby money to do what big biz wants that’s opposite what they promised you they would do. That makes them cheats!

They stole your grandmother’s retirement money from SS. Now you face getting nothing for your SS payments. That makes them thieves!

They tax us, but they know the foreign companies pay no taxes on the goods they sell here. The goods are sold then bought on paper in a foreign port to skate the tax laws. Thus eliminating their profit on paper to cheat the US out of the taxes they owe. This makes them backstabbers!

They take lobby money to put earmarks and pork in every law that passes their desk. Then they do photo ops, a news clips to promote themselves as doing something good for us and America. So they corkscrew us!

They make back room deals and give our tax money to foreigners who build factories with our money. Then they write laws that send our jobs overseas. This makes them dirty dealers!

So lets total all this up. They lie, cheat, steal, backstab, corkscrew, and dirty deal. HELL their Flim Flam Men! Just like in the George C. Scott movie “ The Flim Flam Man”!
They are called the “ Honorable” Senator or Representative. Hell Flim Flam Men have NO honor what so ever! They’re crooks, criminals for God’s sake!

The BBC has film of ALL of them going in and out of Abramoff’s restaurant. That’s THE place in DC to get loaded with lobby money. The BBC has been running this story, and trying to get the US media to run it too. The US media refuses to run the story.

It’s time to take America back! Get registered! VOTE! Vote for anyone that’s not a Democrat or a Republican. They have ALL the power and ALL the control. They must bear ALL the responsibility for their gross mismanagement and abysmally poor judgment! It’s time to put THEM in the unemployment line!

So many feel the choice is between BS and Horse S#*T. The Flim Flam Mem politicians have used so much smoke and mirrors BS and propaganda that most are lost in the S#*T Storm of all time.

Only a few of us who have minds so hardened and sharp that the Flim Flam Men politicians can't get their BS over on us. I'm so mad about the gross mismanagement and abysmaly poor judgment, I'm thinking of running for President.

I'm tired of Americans living as slaves. We don't and can't own anything, even if the bank is paid off, you don't own your house. Just try not paying the extortion tax, and the gov takes your house. Don't pay the income extortion tax, and you go to jail. You can't even run away like the slaves of old. The gov will hunt down, and you go to jail.

What's the difference? You work to pay, or pay with your work! We are slaves and the smoke and mirrors blinds us to the truth. Da masser geds his'uns pound a flesh. Sucks! Doesn't it?

This is what I would do! I would go completely around both houses. I'd use the Executive Order and write checks like Lincoln did to get what needs to be done, done ASAP!

1st90 days by ExOrder
Establish Earth Rights for all of America like in Alaska
End income taxes;fund the Gov the right way, not on our backs
End tax paper work for citizens, not business
Balance the budget, officials are not paid till it’s done
Regular people for elected officials, no lawyers or rich
End lobbyists, take the money out of politics
Make graft illegal, mandatory jail time
Close the DOE, save the money
Take the Gov out of the schools, PTA run save money
Set Iraq’s oil to pay for the war, make an exit plan with the military
Prisoners work for jail costs, not us, save the money
Make foreign tax cheats pay, tariff goods @retail every container
Register illegals, get them on the tax roles not us
Private SS accounts, makes us millionaires, no gov access to money
After90 days by ExOrder
Build renewable power, make millions of high wage jobs
Supply the world with clean US power
Make a fund with world power money to pay us like Alaska
End Nuclear power
Build electric powered roads, make millions more jobs
Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks
End dependence on foreign oil
Clean the polluted water with clean electric power
Return America to 50% of world’s economy

Would you vote for me to be President? To get PAID $50,000 p/yr and have NO taxes from the earth rights and another $50,000p/yr from the world power fund in a National Income Program.
The foriegn tax cheats tariff money, the taxes from the working illegals, the renewable power money, and all saved money would fund the gov.
It would end poverty, end income taxes, pay down the national debt, end the deficit, build a bigger badder military than now, and pay every household $100,000p/yr.