Wilko wrote:
Lynn Tegrity wrote:

If the US was more like the rest of the world then we would not be
powerful and so influential in the world.

If the U.S. was more like the rest of the world, we wouldn't have had
so
many wars involving the U.S. and so many dirty wars started because
of
the U.S. influence.

If all the other countries in
the world was more like the US then we would not be the most
powerful
and influential country in the world because they would be the US's
equal.

There used to be the Soviets, who had the military advantage up
untill
the late seventies, and right now China and the EU are catching up
with
the U.S. economically with big steps.

If the U.S. hadn't alienated so many of the other countries, maybe
more
countries would want to be allied with it in its illegal and unjust
wars.

The citizens of the United States should always vote what is best
for
our country, not what is best for other countries.

The citizens of most countries vote for what is good for them,
however,
there is not necessarily a discrepancy between voting what is good
for
you and what can also be good for most other people. The joke is that

the citizens of the U.S. have a tendncy to vote for what seems to be
good for them right now, conveniently forgetting the long term
detrimental effects, or pushing their long term negative effects down

the throats of future generations. Very egoistical thinking that will

burden your children, grandchildren and maybe even more with the
irresponsible financial and environmental behaviour of the current
generation. Talking about behaving anti-socially...

The world should not dictate to the US what type of government we
have.

The world won't, the rest of the world will just start to recognise
it
for the selfish double standard lying warmongers that the U.S.
administration really is.


The Kyoto treaty is an example of the world trying to stop our
technological growth and our strong economy.

What strong economy?

It's a watered down version of what could be done to do the very
least
to limit the wholesale destruction and pollution of our environment.
Since the average U.S. citizen uses up five times as much energy per
person as the rest of the western world and causes a similarly
staggering amount of pollution that isn't just limited to the U.S.,
who
are you to tell others that you can keep going on this egoistical
course
without doing anything to limit the impact for everyone else?

Do you also drive your car through your neighbour's lawn, throwing
your
spent BBQ ashes over his fence after sending the smoke over into his
garden where the clean launndry was drying and their children were
playing, ignoring their outcry, because you simply don't care what
they
think or say?

One day you will need that neighbour, who has been stupid enough to
keep
the company that you work at afloat with his investment money for so
long and they will not help you because you didn't treat them with
respect for so long. The U.S. debt is skyrocketing, the trade balance
is
losing roughly a billion and a half dollars a day and the only way
that you will keep afloat is with the help of those insane enough to
think that by investing even more money into that bottomless pit that

your economy has become, it will return their previous investments.

I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. economy crash will happen within
my
lifetime.

--
Wilko van den Bergh wilko(a t)dse(d o t)nl
Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
---Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.---
http://wilko.webzone.ru/

So what do you think anyone should do about Syria? TnT