A Usenet persona calling itself 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.

Right. You would have had one war, and you would now be speaking German and
Seig Heiling Der Furher.

Or, alternatively, you would have had two wars, and you would now be
speaking Russian...if you were still alive and not buried in a mass grave
somewhere in the Urals.

Thumbing your nose at the US and its military power and policies is easy for
you, and you have US military power and policies to thank for your ability
to thumb your nose at all, ingrate.


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,

Which the US single-handedly defeated thanks to Ronald Regan.

and right now China and the EU are catching up with
the U.S. economically with big steps.

And we're making sure that they are directly tied to our interests by making
them dependent on the teat of US consumerism.


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.

We have never engaged in an illegal or unjust war. But, if France and
Germany (or anyone else for that matter) doesn't want to help in Iraq,
that's fine, we'll do it alone...and then we'll enjoy the fruits of victory
alone too. Not a drop of Iraqi oil or dollar in reconstruction contracts for
the EU...excepting perhaps Britain. Everybody else can pound sand.


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,

On whom?

or pushing their long term negative effects down
the throats of future generations.

Well, that's the thing about future generations, they don't have any rights,
so their interests are subordinate to the present needs of the people who
are actually alive.

Very egoistical thinking that will
burden your children, grandchildren and maybe even more with the
irresponsible financial and environmental behaviour of the current
generation.

That's what you get when you come late to the table.


Talking about behaving anti-socially...

Well, anti-socialistically anyway.


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.

Fine by me. They should particularly remember the "warmongers" part, and
they should fear us and do what they can to avoid raising our ire.



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.

This is such claptrap. There is no "wholesale destruction and pollution" of
the US environment. The water and air are cleaner than they've been in a
hundred years, there are more trees now than existed prior to the arrival of
Eurpoeans on the continent, animals and habitat are better protected here
than nearly anywhere else on the planet. The list goes on and on. Your claim
is nonsense.

Since the average U.S. citizen uses up five times as much energy per
person as the rest of the western world

Which we use to produce ten times more productive economic output of the
rest of the world.

and causes a similarly
staggering amount of pollution that isn't just limited to the U.S.,

Hogwash and balderdash.

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?

We're the most powerful, influential nation on the planet, that's who we
are. We like it that way. After the rest of the world limits their CO2
emissions to zero, then we'll see if the Kyoto Protocols have any real
impact on the false specter of "global warming." If the link is actually
proven, and it's shown that worldwide CO2 reductions have a beneficial
impact on the environment, then you can come to us and demand that we do the
same. Until then, the Kyoto Protocols are more about disadvantaging the US
economy as "retribution" for our success by sour-grapes nations who would do
anything to damage our economy, even if they don't have to do anything to
reduce their own impacts. Kyoto was just like the UN...a bunch of malcontent
petite lords trying to drag down the King just because he's the King.

Sorry, not going to play that game. Get your **** together, prove that it's
necessary by achieving real benefits first, then you can come to us and ask
us to participate.


Do you also drive your car through your neighbour's lawn,

That would be trespassing....just like all the illegals are doing to us.

throwing your
spent BBQ ashes over his fence

Hey, we asked and he said we could do it if we paid him five bucks, so we
did.

after sending the smoke over into his
garden

Sucks to be downwind, doesn't it?

where the clean launndry was drying

Put your laundry in a clothes dryer instead.

and their children were
playing, ignoring their outcry,

Smack the whiney kids and tell them to enjoy the fragrance of barbecuing
meat while recognizing that the neighbors have every right to barbecue.

because you simply don't care what they
think or say?

Ah, quit your bitching.


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.

Or not.

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.

Which it will. It always has. Every time some doom-and-gloom naysayer has
predicted the economic collapse of the US, we've proven them wrong. We'll do
so again.


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

It won't. But even if it does, we'll recover and once again take our
rightful place as the preeminent power in the world. That's just the kind of
people we are.

--
Regards,
Scott Weiser

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