What event made you realize that the United States was more f*cked up than you could ever believe?

Question

I think for me it was the Hurricane Katrina fiasco. The media coverage conditioned the American people that it was ok to lock up other Americans in concentration camps with no food and water in a time of crisis.

Answer 1

George Bush being re-elected. I mean really...

Answer 2

"Hurricane Katrina fiasco"? What about the European heatwave of 2004, when 25,000 people died in France alone, and the only thing the French government did for them was issue public service announcements telling them to stay cool? And then the French government had the elephant-sized chutzpah to lecture us on how Katrina should have been handled? How come no one was bashing France for that?

How about the fact that one of the reasons the heatwave casualties were so great is that French hospitals and emergency rooms are understaffed in the summer? Forget the GOVERNMENT doing something -- how about them doctors and nurses who merrily went on their "vacances" in the middle of a national crisis? Is that not a f*cked up society? Yeah, they have a "human right" to a 35-hour work week and a 5-week summer vacation, and they will exercise those rights, come hell or high water (no pun intended); and those unfortunate enough to suffer a heat stroke in the middle of July have a right to croak while waiting for their "free" health care. Can you imagine something like this happening in the US? I can't, because I've seen how Americans act in a crisis; I was in New York on 9/11.

"F*cked up" is a relative term, asker.

Bsb: As good as the French government supposedly is at handling natural disasters, was it really powerless? How about providing air-conditioned space? How about calling for medical volunteers? How about doing some kind of a volunteer program to get people with AC's to give shelter to people who don't have AC's? How about creating incentives for medical personnel to put off their vacations until the crisis is resolved? Adopting your reasoning, by contrast, we can excuse the Bush administration too: after all, if France couldn't just hand out air-conditioners, so America couldn't stop a hurricane or move NO.

Answer 3

For me it has been watching the illegal immigrant rallies on the news. We should have deported every one of them. The only negative reaction to this (at least here in California) was that the police used "excessive force" on some of the protestors. Give me a friggin' break. These people are here illegally and the outcry is that their rights were violated. Every day I listen to the news and hear that we're finally going to do something about illegal immigration. Finally, we get a proposal and it's an AMNESTY program!!! WTF?? I voted for Bush twice, spent 5 years in the Marines, and went to Iraq twice. I feel betrayed and cheated. Oh well, even if I can't move to another state and receive in-state tuition, at least I'll rest peacefully knowing that some illegal can go wherever they want and be catered to.

Answer 4

watching a president order federal agents burst into a home with submachine guns and take a cuban boy against a court order, all because Clinton had a political agenda. Then hearing the the Clinton supporters defend it by saying, 'he should go back to his father. PERIOD!" then walk away from the argument.
A similar situation would have been if George bush had sent the FBI, or Jeb had sent the Florida state police into Terry Shiavo's hospital room and "rescued" her. And all the Bush supporters would end their argument by saying "she had a right to live, PERIOD." Then walk away from the argument. Notice it didn't happen that way, one side of the aisle has respect for the rule of law.

Answer 5

That was a good one for sure. I would have to say 9/11 from my conspiracy standpoint..but if you don't ride that train I will leave it out and just say Iraq. Going after people that had nothing to do with attacking us and not going after the people that did.

Edit to Radisca: Are you ok? Did you even read the question? And when its that hot and you don't have enough air conditioning, what the heck is the govt. suppose to do? Go around and install them all over the country? Could be the dumbest thing I have ever read.

Answer 6

There were so many things like all the dead bodies turning up in the Clinton years and all explained so stupidly anyone could see there was a lot more going on!
I think when I found out that the Federal Reserve is a foreign owned corporation that collects interest on money our mints print for them that really did it for me!

Answer 7

When congress tried to withdrawal support for the honorable men & women that are risking there lives to protect us.

I suppose most of you people don't remember that it was Clinton's CIA director, George Tenet, that provided the intelligence on the WMDs and that Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act in 1998 just before he started bombing a few months later. And that Bush retained Tenet in his administration who continued to sing the same song about WMDs.

Answer 8

Katrina was screwed up and fema was slow to act. But , not nearly as slow to recognize the impending disaster that they local residents and government were. They have known for 40 years that a direct hit on New Orleans would result in what happened. 5 days out, they knew it was gonna hit. Yet (Chocolate Town) Nagin did not act. There were hundreds of buses available to evacuate the city. He and the Governor did nothing. After it hit , he whined like a pathetic little girl and cried. New Orleans residents of course blamed Bush. The product of the government hand out society which the liberal democrats created there.

Answer 9

specific. A revolution in ideas-set in direction of want and greed. With the ought to look after your self and community. The cave in of the U. S. Empire under the burden of its debt will circulate away people sitting around waiting in ineffective for the nanny state to rescue them. (or fox / ccn information tell them what to do) Be arranged for exchange.

Answer 10

Many, many events. Though I'm looking forward to the golden age. Hopefully i perform well enough and may YHWH bless me with all of the determination and conviction to help us all get there, at least upon my personal part of this vast plan unfolding. I can smell the rose.

Answer 11

Well I live in the state formerly called Ohio, now NOhio. And recently there was a law that passed having to do with strippers. I do not frequent strip clubs, though it is my right to do so, or at least that's what I thought. Apparently now, they are making it so the strippers cannot be nude after midnight (??) and some kind of distance barrier is being called for, up to six feet in some instances. Now you want to talk about being whacked out and upside down. There are 10,000+ people working in the strip club industry in Ohio, from bartenders to dancers and everyone in between. These people are basically going to be put out of business because one low-life group of uninteresting booger-eaters thinks they need to tell me how to live. So that was something pretty recent that basically restated the fact at how screwed up this country, and unfortunately, my state in particular is.