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End the Game. Build one America. Lead the world.

 
 
dagmaraka
 
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 01:31 pm
...besides, why would the World want to be lead by America? Did anyone ask it?
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candidone1
 
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 01:35 pm
au1929 wrote:
End the Game. Build one America. Lead the world.
Is that supposed to be some kind of joke? The US has trouble enough cleaning up it's own house. It is time we stop trying to be the police force and conscience of the world and concentrate on fixing what is wrong at home. Our tax dollars should be spent on bettering the lot of the citizens of the US not the whole damn world.


The US has assumed the world police role because they sticks in every fire around the globe. Where there is oil, you find the US. Where there is cheap labor, you find the US. Where there is any resource worth exploiting, you will find the US. Unfortunately, people don't often let you take things without a bit of a fight.
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Ramafuchs
 
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 03:05 pm
My view
my view is this.
End the rotten GAME:
TRY to make (USA) as the united one
and
build one AMERICA.
Then be with the globe to share the agonies and ecstacies.
It takes time but patient pays and arrogance is unwarranted:
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anton
 
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 06:49 pm
au1929 wrote:
End the Game. Build one America. Lead the world.
Is that supposed to be some kind of joke? The US has trouble enough cleaning up it's own house. It is time we stop trying to be the police force and conscience of the world and concentrate on fixing what is wrong at home. Our tax dollars should be spent on bettering the lot of the citizens of the US not the whole damn world.


An excellent post, the world doesn't need or want America as a policeman.
If your leaders do not understand, why your once great country is being targeted by extremists, its time you got new leaders who are prepared to seek the cause and then act appropriately to enact a cure; just as medicos do when fighting any disease.

Remember it is a very fine line between terrorism and patriotism and your designation depends on which side of that line you are standing. I'm certain many of those your government identifies as terrorists are considered patriots in their own country; that is worth considering.

When your armies, at the behest of your government, destroy a country and its infrastructure, kill and mutilate tens of thousands of innocent people you are not winning friends, quite the opposite you are seen for what you are, the bully of the world pushing its hegemony to the limit.

Remember it is not just the innocents you are killing; it is also former members of your military, the veterans.
You poisoned civilians and troops in Vietnam with the chemical we now call "Agent Orange" and now your government is doing exactly same only this time they are using radioactive depleted uranium.
Does your government give the veterans the medical and financial help they deserve?
No it doesn't, in fact it defends the use of the weapons and denies the sickness is caused by the use of such obnoxious weaponry.

The billions of dollars your government is spending on waging war would be better spent caring for those who are suffering because they answered the call to arms; the United States could have what the rest of the Western World take for granted, a free health service, in fact America could have a health service second to none, no longer would your senior citizens need to cross borders in order to get affordable medication.

Forget Rambo he's just fiction, forget war, look after your own citizens and win back the respect for America that George Bush has destroyed.

Terrorism is an ogre created by subsequent US governments, think about that!
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Ramafuchs
 
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Reply Sat 8 Sep, 2007 10:29 am
DREAMS OF AMERICANS
"According to the Economic Policy Institute, in 1989 American CEOs earned 71 times more than the average worker - today, by most calculations, it is up to around 270 times. Meanwhile, social mobility has slowed to a level below that in most of Europe, including Britain.

Most Americans identify themselves as "middle class" - but in the middle of what is not clear. Anything that would identify working people as a group with a collective set of interests that are different from and at times antagonistic to the interests of corporations has pretty much been erased from public discourse. People will refer to "blue collar workers", "working families", "the poor", the "working poor". But the working class simply does not exist.

None the less, class does play a role. It is most often used by the right to cast liberals as cultural "elites". The price of Edwards's haircut, John Kerry's windsurfing, Al Gore's earth tones - all are exploited as illustrations of the effete mannerisms of those who claim to speak for the common man and woman. Class is not elevated to politics but reduced to performance: that is how the fact that Bush has made so little of his elite upbringing has become an asset.

The conservative columnist Cal Thomas said of Edwards: "His populist jargon is nothing but class warfare." If only. Long ago the wealthy declared war on the poor in this country. The poor have yet to fight back.

In October 2000, Bush quipped to a group of wealthy diners: "What an impressive crowd: the haves, and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base." If only the have-nots had such a determined and confident advocate."
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/03/3582/print
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Ramafuchs
 
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Reply Sat 8 Sep, 2007 03:19 pm
A struggle to
Life is a struggle to vegetate(live)
without civil, moral and ethical culture.
Let us strive hard to face and
depart with decency.and
without remorse or regret
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