This is rubbish, the US is not a third world country. Try walking 15 miles to get water.
2007-02-11 20:38:10
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answered by Anonymous
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The USA was heading into depression when GW Bush finished his presidency, three and a half years ago. The economy was in such a terrible state it will take well over a decade to recover. You can blame the bankers and financial institutions for causing this mess, and this did not just affect America. The damage they did was so immense it triggered a world recession which is still ongoing 4 years later. Taxpayers throughout the world were forced to bail out these financial institutions with over 4 trillion dollars of our money, to avoid a total collapse of the capitalist system. Had we not done so the world would have gone into a depression far worse than that in the 1930's. In Europe we are still paying the costs, just look at the Euro crisis, which is purely because the banks still don't have enough capital, and that has nearly brought Europe to it's knees.. Canadian people get flights in the USA because there is far more competition between airlines and the prices are far cheaper than in Canada. The same is true for many other goods such as clothes, most of these goods come from China. The USA has cheaper gas than in Canada because there is far less tax on fuel. Americans who lose their jobs have paid for all welfare benefits when they were working, this was automatically deducted from their wages in the form of social insurance contributions. Why the hell should they not claim welfare benefits, it is their right and certainly not a free handout ? This is enshrined in Article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the US is signatory, and as such is a part of the American constitution.. This does not mean that the USA is becoming a third world country because of this, you are being totally ridiculous to even suggest such a thing because the exact opposite is true. This welfare system is the very thing that sets us apart from the third world. In under-developed third world countries they have no welfare system to fall back on. If people lose their jobs they could starve, they have no pensions to look froward to, and no security if they fall sick or become disabled. Why on earth do you think that so many of their inhabitants are trying to come to our countries as refugees or asylum seekers ? If you can't find anything better to blame Obama for, then maybe it's better that you say nothing. Or at least check your facts before you write.
2016-05-24 00:12:29
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answered by ? 4
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You get an A+ for effort when it comes to trying to sound like you know what you're talking about.
If you want to know about a third world country who actually deals with scenes of distress and actually has a population that doesn't own shoes, look into a country like Haiti. You're incredibly off on thinking that America is in such poor condition.
2007-02-11 20:48:49
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answered by Emma 6
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For me, except USA, every other country a third world country. We Americans are the world police.
2007-02-15 14:30:01
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answered by jimmyct_2000 2
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Open your eyes, and ears. The USA is the financially richest nation in the world and has the highest GDP too. Is this a joke? If so perhaps you should let on.
2007-02-11 22:19:30
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answered by funnelweb 5
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I see from your page you have an ax to grind with the USA.
This quote may help you with your self disgust.
"Although I am an Australian, one thing that really annoys me is the constant refrain among non-Americans to the effect that Americans are stupid. How did a stupid people get to be one of the most prosperous on earth? How did a stupid people get to be the world's only superpower? How did a stupid people avoid ever having their cities bombed flat? How did a stupid people produce military equipment so advanced that no-one else can hope to match it? The Iraqi army put up a tenacious fight against the Iranian army but it just went home when a much smaller American military force arrived. How did a stupid people come to dominate the world with its cultural products? Ever heard of Hollywood or American popular music? And even Italians now make "Western" movies. How did a stupid people get to dominate the world with its products and business systems? Ever heard of Coca Cola, McDonald's or KFC? How did America get to dominate the world with its intellectual products? Ever heard of Microsoft or IBM or Intel or all the American Nobel prize-winners? How did a stupid people get to integrate successfully within their ranks large numbers of people from every country in Europe? South America and North America are both large continents well-endowed with natural resources so how come there is no South American equivalent of the USA? How come prosperity stops at the U.S.-Mexico border? And how come it is Europe that invented both Communism and Fascism and that it was America that had to rescue them from both?
The truth is that Americans are a very wise and sophisticated people who very often affect a folksy style -- such as the style we see the high-achieving President George W. Bush or in the incredibly high-achieving investor Warren Buffett. But the REALLY stupid people are those who cannot see past the folksy style to the hard-working, dedicated, careful-thinking people beneath it. Only people as stupid as most Europeans could mistake style for substance. Really smart people would try to understand Americans rather than condemn them for having their own ways. They would see the folksiness as a sign of a less elitist and more democratic society rather than as a sign of stupidity.
And it is not only Americans who affect folksiness. Australia's most popular Prime Minister in the last 50 years was "Bob" Hawke -- a conservative in most ways but the leader of Australia's major party of the Left. Although he was so thoroughly bourgeois as to be the son of a Protestant clergyman and brilliant enough win a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford university, he normally spoke during his political career with a broad working-class accent. He certainly wasn't stupid but Australia too is a very egalitarian country where people of all classes are treated with respect.
2007-02-14 03:37:39
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answered by Ponca 3
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I don't agree with you that USA a third world country at least for the moment,but if we going to keep our White house(Mr Bush) policy,so soon we going to be third world country.
2007-02-11 21:41:20
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answered by Moe M 3
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Haaa, what is wrong with you? Which planet do you live on? Are you in the middle of some sorta personal crisis? AMERICA IS NOT A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!
2007-02-11 21:23:36
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answered by Questionis 3
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I can never work out whether people are serious when they ask a question or whether they like a laugh at people's responses. Given then that some jokers even give a thumbs down to perfectly legitimate answers confuses me even more. I think I'll stick to politics; it's much clearer, isn't it?
2007-02-14 09:49:12
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answered by michael w 3
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poor you sidney vicious you don't even know what is the third world country looks like! i think you're not educated or never been any other countries! i feel sorry on you! go get some education! ;)
2007-02-12 15:05:13
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answered by Anonymous
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