Who and/or what do you think is the biggest threat to America?

Question

haha..you guys are so predicable, I knew someone was going to say Liberals.

Answer 1

Overpopulation of the rest of the world. We are very quickly approaching a point where the rest of the world cannot support the number of children being born, and I expect some dramatic events to start occurring. The whole illegal immigration debate is caused by Mexico's big family mentality, and they're sending us all the people they can't feed or employ. If we don't close our borders, we will be sent all the excess from all the people of the world, and our prosperity is doomed.

Answer 2

Extremists - in any form. Like Obama says, this is not a Liberal America, or a Conservative America, this is the United States of America. Fanatics that demand it be 'their way or the highway' regardless of the majority and exclusive of all else do not deserve to be in positions of power or authority. Like it or not, the world is changing, and in order to adapt and compete on a global scale to remain The Superpower, progress should be made.

As much as I was a critic of Gov. Schwarzenegger, I totally dig his way of doing things: He is trying to get the the center coming from the right. I think that if more people took that approach, we could stop much of the divisiveness occurring in our country today.

If we can get over the extremism within our country, we will be unstoppable in protecting and defending our country from outside extremists.

Answer 3

Stupidity.

These boards are full of political answers where there was no such thing as common sense.

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What Pogo Said years ago,
“We have met the enemy and it is us.”

With that in mind, a quote I heard years ago attributed to an elder statesman, which I’ve never been able to find since, was this, “Eventually we become our enemy.”

Individually the same thing, becoming our bosses and parents and doing things we swore we’d never do. As a country, we are ever so slowly moving in the direction that our bill of rights and constitution is becoming nothing more then words.

Where it could be, one day, through the politics of fear, corruption, complacency and apathy that we become exactly what we are fighting.

Negativism, sometimes through religion, has divided this country in ways that I have not seen since Vietnam. Some of that I blame on the talking heads, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbah. Where facts are embellished to outright lying and making up stuff on the fly.

Where the real failure with the left in getting its message out is the result that liberals are generally smarter and better educated and the right is generally ignorant and less educated, therefore liberals don’t need constant reminders of how screwed up the government and the right is while the right needs constant reminders of how screwed up liberals are.

Those that are sitting on the fence get swayed by this kind of negativism. Which eventually, through a constant barrage, resulted in Monkey Man being selected then elected, and the millions of sperm Clinton killed resulted in almost getting thrown out of office for telling a lie to protect his family, while the lies that Bush told which resulted in thousands dead is OK.

Even if Bush didn’t lie, as some claim, what he did that is unforgivable is when he found out facts that where untrue after he told them, he continued to tell them…….that my friend turns it into a lie. How screwed up is that? Even at the time when my daughter was eleven years old she understood that.

What we should have at this point is Bush and Cheney thrown out of office and Polosi in as President. Yet I knew when the Democrats won they would roll over dead on the impeachment issue and let Bush run this country further into the ground.

There is a clear message the Democrats and country should be saying is not so much to the country, but rather the world. “Never again.” Then stop the politics of fear and negativism and start working together and with the world, instead of against so much of it.

We need to start that by looking into our own crystal ball and coming up with our own version of China's five year plans. The problem with that is we’re going to have to come to some realizations that powerful people, even the people will certainly oppose.

Then if the planning does become reality it will be thrown into court for the next ten years as we get further behind the 8 ball. In the mean time we’ll continue to supply the world with arms, millions will die and eventually, through all the hate that produced the 911 we went through could very well turn into a tear drop compared to the thousands or possibly millions lost in the subsequent attacks.

There are good and bad points to the American and Chinese system. While China seems to get things done, we seem to muddle along and get ourselves into legal shambles while lawyers line their pockets in never ending litigation to put on hold what needs to be done years, even decades later.

All of this while the world warms, the population increases and conflicts are on the rise we argue about abortion. We have got our vision so unfocused and politics so screwed up that it’s no wonder Pogo is right.

Signed and ex pat living in the heartland of China.

peace

Jim

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Answer 4

At the moment revising the 'fairness doctrine' is being debated on the Congress floor, thus, taking a major step in stifling our freedom of speech and freedom to information.

It was a big shakeup when the American people spoke up on the amnesty issue because 'we were informed'. For too long we have been hoodwinked about the self-serving, anti-American laws our elected lawmakers have imposed on us against our will.

They count on us being uninformed, too busy living our lives, watching American Idol or Paris Hilton rather than on the issues that will affect all of us as Americans.

Please be aware: we must fight any effort to pass any legislation which deprive any of us or any party or any media outlet from the freedom of expression. This is what makes the U.S.A. unique and we must hold onto it.

Answer 5

Corporations

Their government

Their media

Most of our nation's problems....the world's problems, are rooted in the corporate takeover of the United States

Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower were all correct in their distrust of corporations

Answer 6

Ignorance.

Answer 7

We are. We the People....

We are fat, weak and lazy. TV and pursuit of the almighty dollar has sapped our will and stolen our strength.

Unless people take an active role in their country, their government and their families... the only way to go... is down.

Answer 8

The love of money(greed) because foreign governments with power who know all it takes is a little money to buy us off, and soft liberal thinkers who wanna let everything and everyone do what they want without morals

Answer 9

Intolerance of others both within and outside of our borders. As this country's greatest asset is its' diversity of ideas and culture, intolerance threatens to kill the creative spirit that made this country what it is today.

Answer 10

Bears