Is the USA a poor country?

Question

As an Englishman i find it amazing that Americans keep saying the USA is a rich country, but they do not fund anything properly.
Take their army-they give their soldiers guns that dont shoot straight and helicopters with faulty missiles, resulting in hitting more "goodies" than "baddies"
Also their schooling system teaches history using only "Hollywood" methods because the truth is more expensive.
Just a small point, but valid i think.

Answer 1

A) Yes, our schools suck.

B) Our military firearms are some of the best in the world. Some of you're people use some of our weapons.

C) There's always going to be a failure rate among any electronic device, even missiles. That hasn't stopped your country from using US missiles. You took the Sparrow and re-designated it Sky Flash. Your ASRAAM is based on the Sidewinder M. You based BVRAAM on AMRAAM. Your Apache attack helicopters are using Sidearm and Hellfire missiles. Your Brimstone missile is a joint venture with Raytheon. Your using Mavericks. You recently adapted Tomahawk to the Trafalgar class subs and will be part of the normal load for the Valiant class. You're using Trident missiles. Sea Eagle is based on the Harpoon. Need I go on?

Answer 2

First of all, those are all opinionated views. You may think that they give soldiers guns that don't shoot straight, but do you actually have any evidence that they don't? Have you taken every soldier's gun and examined it to see if it shoots straight? Have you tested every single helicopter's missiles. Have you experienced the American system? Did you know that every state has standards for its education system? Did you know that it's not just the nation that sets education standards, and maybe that is why history is taught in a "Hollywood" style. I am a student studying American politics, government, and economy, and it is try that the USA is the nation with the most debt, but we have the highest export rates of any other nation. As a nation we make the most money than any other nation on the planet. That is why American's say that USA is a rich country. You should also know it's not "the USA", you do not say "I am going to THE USA." You say, "I am going to USA." My point is not small, and it is none-the-less valid.

Answer 3

Our deficit spending is a cause for concern. But our gross national product far exceeds that of any other nation. We have an abundance of natural resources that other countries do not have, including the UK. Our military is still the best armed and efficient in the world. You should consider yourself blessed to be considered an ally. We have advanced weapons that haven't been utilized, which are much more proficient killing machines than "guns that don't shoot straight" or "helicopters with faulty missiles", etc. Friendly fire incidents happen in any war by many nations. It's a fact of military history. Our educational system is not perfect, but at least we don't have a government that sets rigid standards on subject matter, and all students, regardless of sex, are entitled to an education, including illegal immigrants. In comparison with the rest of the world, if a worker here earns $61,000 annually, he or she is in the top 2% of the wealthiest in the world. Yes, we have issues in all areas, but we have the freedom to discuss them, and the means to correct the problems.

Answer 4

Countries are classified as rich or poor based on GNP and Per Capita Income.Under this standard USA is one of the super rich coutries.If per capia income is less than1000 US $ that country is poor(like Somalia,Bangladesh etc)

Answer 5

Valid point indeed. As a product of both European and American systems of education, I know that the European system is by far better. US is not a poor country per say, it is just a problem with the appropriation and the outdated government that wastes much of the money. Also, I doubt if we export more than China.

Answer 6

yeah a completely incorrect one as well. Americans have the highest technologically advanced weaponry available. The truth is more expensive? What idiocy.

This is just a wonderful example of envy.

Answer 7

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.

Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously – always intent on their own advantage.

This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.

However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap

Answer 8

The USA is bankrupt so you can say that its is now a poor country. There debt is equivelent to $30 000 for every man, woman and child in the US

Answer 9

Ballocks! in the now famous words of Arsenals Rooney as he got sent packing from the World Cup.

Answer 10

We fund lots of stuff. Get a clue.

Maybe it's the fact that we believe in personal responsibility and that hard work should be rewarded, so we don't have 98% taxes like you socialists.