Is america starting to become a Third world Country?

Question

Economy is worst than like 10 countries. Not #1 nomore.

Answer 1

We are declining but comparing the U.S. to a 3rd world country is still a stretch. Our quality of life is still better than most countries, but that is declinig to especially if you are middle or lower class. The Government is making really bad decisions.

Answer 2

In a way: someone mentioned our superior infrastructure. Apparently they have already forgotten about the recent bridge collapse.

I wonder how many 1st world countries suffer from (even infrequent) bridge collapses?

Our money is being wasted on stupid pork projects that the Congress and the President sign off on, the poor are being ignored (especially health care for children - thanks to the idiot Bush), our education system is a joke, the dollar is falling faster than an elevator in free fall, all our working class jobs are being sent over seas, and we have a worsening mortgage and possibly a student loan crisis developing due to American's irresponsiblilities and greed.

Answer 3

I think that it is becomming fashionable to become a third world nation. Our own people want us to take care of everyone and everything else before we take care of ourselves.
If the silvery minnow is at risk, well then some people can lose their livlihood in order to protect it.
If the economic situation in Mexico is bad, well then we should open our borders and let the people come here so that we can provide them with health care and jobs to make their lives better, if this interferes with our economy, oh well, it's the compassionate thing to do.
If any foreign country is suffering, well then we should give them lots of money in order to make their lives better, nevermind that we are bankrupting ourselves to do it, and their own officials are steeling it as fast as we send it.
If there is a regional conflict somewhere, especially if there might be something in it for us, well then we need to get involved and prop up the government of the ones we want to win, nevermind, if we change our minds later.
Then you can look at our own Congress, which is full of people who are quite willing to steel from us in order to prop up their own chances for re-election, or to bring pork home to their own districts.
If any foreign country needs an economic boost, well we will send them our industry to help them get into the 21st century, nevermind that in the process we are giving away our jobs that keep whole regions of our country working.

All of these things cost money and erode our integrity as a nation. Each time we do any of these things we are weakening ourselves. Now the rest of the world is laughing at us because all the things we built in this country, we are exporting wholesale to the rest of the world. All of this is leaving ourselves without the ability to support ourselves. Add to this the fact we have enacted so much red tape and attached it to everything that we might build in order to recover, that it is virtually impossible to get anything invented or manufactured in this country and still comply with all the regulations. Due to the devaluation of our dollar, which is a natural outgrowth of having nothing to sell anymore,we have reduced ourselves to survival mentality. People don't have the time or money to be creative and it is now unrealistic to expect that we can ever be as creative again as we have been when we built this country.
We have done this to ourselves.
We will finish burying ourselves with this election if we don't elect someone who recognises the fact that we have to rebuild and regroup, and is willing to enact the legislation to do so.

Answer 4

No. Look at the general population of America. We are better off then all of the other countries of the world. Most Americans have luxuries that other countries have not even heard of.

Answer 5

No, we are much more prosperous than most of the world. We are declining, though, because we have been stretched thin with our world police policies, foreign aid, corporate subsidies, massive government wealth transfers.
If we want economic reform, we need to elect Ron Paul and re-institute capitalism and limited government.

Answer 6

We have slipped way below number one in so many categories. Literacy, Newborn deaths, mothers dying in childbirth, longevity, it is embarrassing that we don't try to fix anything but just keep chanting "we're number one".

(CNN) -- An estimated 2 million babies die within their first 24 hours each year worldwide and the United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world, according to a new report.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/parenting/05/08/mothers.index/index.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10928755/

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070318/26intro.htm

Answer 7

I dont think so given the infrastructure in this country.., but liberals will have you believe this. If the democrats have their way, everybody in the world will have the same standard of living. Guess what will happen to ours??

Answer 8

not right now but we are on the decline so maybe in another 50-100 years if we don't spend money on infrastructure and reform our education system

Answer 9

how do you mean? 'start to become' ?

Answer 10

sure looks that way.