WHAT do you think Americas GREATEST problem is right now?

Answer 1

Division

Answer 2

Americans Greatest Problem right now is Division. Whatever happened to United We Stand Divided We Fall.

Answer 3

Corporations that mask themselves as Government.
But to really patch up the broken border, President Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: the nation's giant military contractors.
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, three of the largest, are among the companies that said they would submit bids within two weeks for a multibillion-dollar federal contract to build what the administration calls a "virtual fence" along the nation's land borders.

Using some of the same high-priced, high-tech tools these companies have already put to work in Iraq and Afghanistan — like unmanned aerial vehicles, ground surveillance satellites and motion-detection video equipment — the military contractors are zeroing in on the rivers, deserts, mountains and settled areas that separate Mexico and Canada from the United States.

It is a humbling acknowledgment that despite more than a decade of initiatives with macho-sounding names, like Operation Hold the Line in El Paso or Operation Gate Keeper in San Diego, the federal government has repeatedly failed on its own to gain control of the land borders.

Through its Secure Border Initiative, the Bush administration intends to not simply buy an amalgam of high-tech equipment to help it patrol the borders — a tactic it has also already tried, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, with extremely limited success. It is also asking the contractors to devise and build a whole new border strategy that ties together the personnel, technology and physical barriers.

"This is an unusual invitation," the deputy secretary of homeland security, Michael Jackson, told contractors this year at an industry briefing, just before the bidding period for this new contract started. "We're asking you to come back and tell us how to do our business."

The effort comes as the Senate voted Wednesday to add hundreds of miles of fencing along the border with Mexico. The measure would also prohibit illegal immigrants convicted of a felony or three misdemeanors from any chance at citizenship.

Answer 4

Close mindedness of those who think they have all the answers, yet are too blind to see that the things which they know are only one sided. It's our urge to follow and be led. Among in this category is our inability to have international diplomacy, along with our inability to achieve political effectiveness without thinking of political biases, instead of looking at the truth within the issues people see it as one party against the other. This often blinds one from seeing the real picture of reality.

This keeps us from being united.

Answer 5

Americans.

Answer 6

Religion, plain and simple. When the fanatics get into government, you can kiss logic, common sense and rationality goodbye. Didn't we leave this garbage in the Dark Ages? Apparently, Europe learned that lesson but the American South did not. Forget Al-Quaida; worry about the religious right, the American Taliban.

Answer 7

While I agree with many of the problems others have listed, I'd have to say that all of them stem from the blantant disregard for the Constitution. If we don't like it, we have the option of changing it, or even starting over with a new one. But to pretend it's still the supreme law of this country, while ignoring whichever parts we don't like, is the root cause of all cynicism about our government.

Answer 8

Bipolarism of the national psyche. We tend to think of our fellow citizens as "them" because we don't know them . We think of "us" as the ones who know better than them.
We're split into small camps, cliques, sects, whatever you care to call it. We think in circle games.
We've been convinced ( by rumors, misinformation, spin) that our national identity has gone global. We tend to look for our answers in solutions that we believe will come from some outside source. We don't solve our problems collectively because we've lost faith in the value of interdependent matrixes. In other words---we can't hold our own mud because we're so apathetic.

Answer 9

We want to be everybody's buddy and when you have a mark on your back, that's a losing proposition.

We want to be friends with the Chinese,even though they are preparing to go to war with us.

We don't want to piss off Mexico, so we allow them to peacefully invade our country.

We want arabs who want to cut our heads off to like us...so we keep giving them visas to come to our country and be eduacted at our schools, so that they can use that knowledge to kill us.

We want all the fake partiotic Americans to keep spending money to keep our fragile, can crash at any moment, economy afloat,so we don't call up a draft to allow us to defend our country and our interests abroad because that would piss people off.

We're so screwed!

Answer 10

Speaking as a American,i would say true untidiness.

It seems to me their are 3 'people' Left wingers,Rightwingers,and people who just do not pay attention.

Each is radically different,and everyone seems to fall into each class in one way or another.

So my awsner is No unity.