Do you believe in America?

Question

Majority of the people regardless of age, gender, education, and profession agrees that America is in deep trouble and there are lots of evidence to prove it.

With our national debt at $97.6 Trillion, our social security and medicare will be gone in the near future.
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With a "war-president" who believes in doing whatever it takes to get the mission done in Iraq on the "war on terror" and many of Americans are losing faith in politics. A lot of us are losing jobs overseas to cheaper laborers and China and India are expected to be the next superpowers.

The future looks dim for America in preserving it's global power or is it?

One very important factor that many Americans have forgotten is that most countries copies our ideas. Innovation is what drives our country foward despite our debt. The American music, the fashion, the food, and TV shows are influences the world.

Americans does something and the world follows us and not the other way around. This is the reason why America will continue in being the superpower for a very long time.

Answer 1

The United States of America has problems that any country might face, but we will get through them and persevere. We're not going anywhere.

Answer 2

If we assume that things are as dire as some perceive, and perhaps they are, there is something to bear in mind.

Governments come and go, as they have in Germany, France, Vietnam, Iraq, and even countries change their names and move borders.

People survive. Some do, anyway. Some survive on luck, some prepare, and some are just willing to do what has to be done to survive, such as chop their own firewood and draw their own water and grow or catch their own food.

Usually when times of turmoil reach their peak, the ones that do not survive are the ones that caused the turmoil in the first place.

Innovation isn't going to be enough to prevent the turmoil. The "support the troops" bumper stickers are a classic example, invented by a couple of guys in America, very quickly mass-produced in China. Computer innovation is likely to move to India within a decade, given that they train far more computer engineers than we do. We haven't innovated a solution to the immigration problems.

The national debt isn't 97 billion, it's closer to 9 billion. That's $36,000 per person, give or take. It increases by about $5 per person per day. We compete with our own debt to get mortgages, meaning we pay more for housing simply because there's less money to be borrowed due to the debt.

There are only three ways out of this. The Democrats and Republicans have proven over the last 50 years a total inability or unwillingness to actually pay the debt, regardless of tax revenues, so that's not likely. Inflation is another way, but inflating away debt often costs as much in interest as you gain in reducing the buying power the debt represents, and is in any event an insidious tax on savings. The last is simple bankruptcy, just refusing to pay the debt. If you've ever known anyone that did this, you know they had a hard time borrowing more and had to struggle to get durable items like housing or a car.

The root problem is our spending. We need responsible people in Congress, and I don't see any. The reason is that people keep getting elected who can bring home more of that borrowed pie to their home district, and every slice that goes to one state leaves the representatives of the other 49 thinking they need to steal a larger pie next year. That's YOUR pie already. This is precisely what Alexis DeTocqueville was referring to when he said "America will be free until the politicians learn to bribe the people with their own money."

We're doing this to ourselves. I don't see any reason to expect it to stop before it simply collapses, but we could still reverse course, at least in theory we have that power.

To reverse course, we have to reject Socialism, both of the kind offered by Democrats and the kind offered by Republicans. It's time to wake up and consider Libertarian principles.

Answer 3

What keeps America great is our amazing instinct to "butt out".

I know, I know. I haven't been living under a rock. We're bogged down in that mess in Iraq. But what's truly amazing is that for every period of imperial adventurism, there is an even larger period of isolationism and a call for, as George Washington said, "Friendly relations with all, entangling alliances with none."

Our first case of imperialism came with the Spanish-American War, which despite only having a handful of casualties, was derided by the public as "the splendid little war." Theodore Roosevelt was defeated by William Taft, a man who was such a strong advocate of peace he was often called a pacifist.

Woodrow Wilson's politics share so many parallels with George W. Bush that it isn't even funny. He wanted America to be involved, to shower the world with democracy, to be the world's police-man. It was he who dragged America into WWI. He was handily defeated by Warren Harding, an isolationist and anti-League of Nations candidate.

After WWII, there was an uproar when rumours arised that the war might continue against the Soviets.

Harry Truman dragged America into the Korean War. Dwight Eisenhower, the next president, got America out of it, citing how many schools could be built if even a single bomber was scrapped.

Do I even need to bring up the Vietnam war, and the protests against it? The war was primarily Lyndon Johnson's baby, before Richard Nixon ran on an anti-war platform and won.

Remember waaaay back in 2000, when George W. Bush ran on a platform that stressed bipartisan relationships, increased fiscal responsibility, and an end to "nation-building"? goodness it's hard to believe that I am even talking about the same person 7 years later, considering how he has polarized the White House, spent more money than Bill Clinton ever dreamed of, and has us bogged down in Iraq. If history is any guide, 2008 is going to be a dark year for the war candidate.

We are just at the crest of a political push for Imperialism. Like all pushes for world hegemony, it is going to get defeated by a population that doesn't believe in sticking one's nose in someone else's business, and like the last times, we will eventually repair our damaged image with the rest of the world.

We are a nation of traders and merchants, not soldiers and kings.

Answer 4

I believed the the "old fashioned" America when immigration was done legally and was controlled and people were embarrassed to be on welfare and only took handouts in desperation. Now there are generations who think they are entitled to food stamps, medicare and subsidized housing and the illegal immigrants are no better. This is what is destroying America.

Answer 5

To everyone who says that folk have the possibility to make something of themselves, I ask how are infants, people who're disabled, or seniors who've had their existence savings ripped off going to make something of themselves? i've got observed an incredible sort of folk in this section communicate approximately liberals as though they seem to be some sort of lazy slobs that basically decide on a handout. i do no longer think of those human beings comprehend that welfare replaced into reformed over ten years in the past (for the period of the Clinton administration). there's a time decrease for able bodied human beings to locate a job, those days. of direction some human beings could truly stay interior the international of detrimental stereotypes than in actuality.

Answer 6

Of course I believe in America. I know this is a cliche, but it's true; "where there's a will, there's a way." Personally, I'd live nowhere else. I truly love this country. I appreciate the freedom of speech, religion and other aspects we have. Sure, our country isn't perfect, but what country is? We have our troubles and problems, but we shall overcome them. I maintain hope in our Democratic government. I believe in America!

Answer 7

once we get the failing bush administration out of office, i think only then can we begin to adopt policies that are in the best interests of all Americans, not just the richest 5%. we will then have to work to repair our global image as gluttonous warmongers forcing democracy down the throat of unstable countries who resist. it will take time, no doubt.

at least i don't have to worry about being exploded by some crazy suicide bombers, who are killing people who don't agree with their beliefs and justifying it as a holy war for islam.

Answer 8

We are a country of gluttons, my dear asker. And as such we're are not only weak, but highly venerable.

This generation doesnt know what it is to fight and win something, we dont know what it is to suffer through for the sake of something better.

Just as Rome grew weak and failed, so will our own country. Its a matter of human nature and history. Its a tide that might be slowed, but it cannot be stopped.

Your concern should be taken to your local congressman/woman or lobbyist. They are always in need of people who have strong cnovictions and concern.

Answer 9

the problem with America is the liberal democrats which is 50-60% of the population. get rid of them and you will have a strong country , give democrats power and as the CIA director put it "we're F....."

Answer 10

I still believe in America.