What is there to LOVE about the USA?

Question

•I love the way we allow people to die because they can’t afford health care or drugs
•I love the way the consumption of resources is a right, not a privilege
•I love the way homeless people are left on the streets to rot
•I love the way we think guns don’t kill people
•I love the way we see death and destruction on television, but an exposed nipple is illegal
•I love the way our presidents many fallibilities are viewed as endearing
•I love the way we think we are the best country, but we can barely find ourselves on a world map
•I love the way obese people are simply ‘heavy’, and gluttony is not a sin
•I love the way foreigners are viewed as a burden, but we see no harm in employing them at $4 per hour.
•I love the way black people are demonized by the media and marginalized in ghettos
•I love the ever broadening gap between the rich and the poor
•I love the way we think our wars are about righteousness, not profit
•I love the way we jail a shop lifter, but slap the wrist of a corporate thief
•I love the way we trust the media, but don’t trust our next door neighbour
•I love the way half of all marriages end in divorce
•I love the way religion has more influence over policy than logical thought
•I love the way international opinion is viewed as trivial or irrelevant
•I love the way we think the world revolves around us
•I love the way criticism of our country is considered un-patriotic
•I love the way we think we are the only country with the freedom of speech
•Most of all, I love the way we pretend everything is ‘A’ OK


What do you love about our country?

Answer 1

I can feel your frustration but we are lucky to be born here in America. Some of us are born in a bad situation but I'm told you can work you way out. We just have to appreciate the things we have, it could certainly be worst.

If you are frustrated about our present administration, we have to vote them out. When you read things written by people on this site telling us how good of a job this regime has done, it's only to ruffle feathers. Believe me, they're really not that dumb and know how much damage this regime is doing.

What worries me the most is, how will future generations pay off this administration's deficit. Also, you know if and when there's a draft, none of the politicians' children will have to serve. Hopefully, when the draft is implemented, my children will be too old to fight this or any other war for OIL!!

Answer 2

I love the fact that we give everyone the right to ask dumb questions.

love the fact that big pharma co.'s give away drugs to the indigent and sell to the government at 'last best cost'. There isn't a single big or small cancer drug company that does not do this.

I love watching homeless people getting hammered by 9 o'clock in the morning and then wandering into traffic, causing accidents.

I love the fact that in America I can weigh 270 pounds and choose to eat myself to death. Not an option in Somalia.

I love that I can work my butt off to make sure I'm on the rich side of the rich - poor gap. I made $4 an hour once, but now I bill at $120.

I love that anyone in a abusive marriage can simply say 'Adios' to the ***hole they married if it is warranted, or chose to tough it out. Not too many divorce lawyers working in Kabul.

I love the fact that we really don' t need to be concerned about international opinion. Let's watch the UN do something useful in Lebanon right now, other than exploding.

I could go on and on. We're not a perfect country by any stretch of the imagination. We've done a lot to screw ourselves up. Affirmative action, outsourcing of jobs, political correctness, the ACLU - but we're still better than most places out there.

Answer 3

I love that you are able to rant like this even though most people probably disagree with you.
I love Yellowstone NP, Zion NP, Bryce NP and others.
I love that we produce 60% of the world's food and only consume 20% of it's energy.
I love that I don't have to run from air raids, artillery shells, and bombs.
I love that I don't need special papers to travel from one coast to the other.
I love that everyone gets a "free" education even if they choose not to learn wisely.
I love that no person but me decided what my career would be.
I love that no one can tell me what I have to think.
I love that we have so much food that people eat too much rather than starving.
I love that a stranger on the street will give me instructions to a destination.
I love baseball.
I love that most people I see will smile and/or say "Hi" to me even though they don't know me.
I love that people are trying to get here for an opportunity rather than us trying to get out.
I love that we can leave this country openly to live elsewhere without fear of reprisal against us or family we may have left behind.
I love that the world envies our wealth and lifestyle.
I love that people cheer our military in parades and special occasions rather than cowering in fear of it.
I love that we believe things will turn out OK even when pessimists point out the things that are not OK yet.

Answer 4

I would LOVE for you to show me a country that does better in just 2 or 3 areas of your "list". (Don't even have to be better in all)

I have travelled far and wide... so I already know the answer. There is none.

A great "clue" for you will be when you go to another country and try to write a list like this about it. See how long it takes for the jackboots to round you up and "re-educate" you.

Answer 5

I love the fact that money can buy the office of the presidency. A man with money can bypass the constitution the courts and fake his death in Colorado Then fly away with billion$

Go big Red Go

Answer 6

I love everything about this country - no joke... President Bush is almost as good a president as Ronald Regan... Democrats are going down in '08 by the way, lol! I can tell you're a democrat.

Answer 7

We the White people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Answer 8

i 'LOVE' your spin on the USA. >HEAVY SARCASM<

So, what's keeping you from moving to the Middle East or France or Mexico or Canada? I think you'd fit right in with the freedom-hating terrorists. But ya' know, if you DO decide to move to the Middle East, you won't have the freedom to say these kind of things about your new country...that is, unless you want to suffer torture and/or death...

Answer 9

I love the fact that you have the right to voice your opinion, as do I, without fear of repercusion. Yes there are allott of things wrong in America.
But we have the Freedom to do something about it.
We have the Freedom to complain about it and we have to Freedom to vote our concience if we don't like the way things are being done!

Answer 10

Never been, however consistently desired to head! Sounds like a pleasant nation, that has the whole thing e.g. Winter time- you'll be able to opt for a summer season vacation! Summer time- you'll be able to cross skiing! That on my own sounds first-rate to me!