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Appreciating What We Have

I often hear about all the bad things that we Citizens of the U. S. A. must endure or live through.

Yet, during all my travels as a Sailor, I was always very happy to return to the United States of America.

Yet, every day we hear about peoples from other countries who suffer great pain and hardship, just to enter the United States of America.

We are in the middle of a Presidential Campaign and a "Rescue" of Wall Street and the media is filled with events that decry our great United States of America.

I humbly suggest that each of us here take the time, one minute, one hour, one day, or even one week to reflect and even speak well of the United States of America.

We have a lot to appreciate. I for one am a proud American who appreciates the fact that soon I will be able to exercise my right to vote. My vote is precious. Thousands of America's Heroes have given their lives so that we remain a free Nation.

Thank You!!!!!!!

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D
I am inclined to agree with you. There is much to be grateful for and this county has given many of us freedoms that people often die for in other parts of the world.
Too much is focused on Americans as a whole. When a country singer is on a radio show and doesn't know the capitol of a country or if it is in fact an actual country, everyone here is branded as being ignorant. The time of ignorance is past.

The people we have chosen or have been placed in office against better judgments (as in the case of the Florida disaster that suggest tampering of votes or fixed elections) have made very poor decisions on our behalf. Greedy people, bloated salaries and the basic exploitation of it's citizens.

We American as a whole have been left holding the bag.

I still hope and pray we can clear this all up and bring our country back into a state of grace.
 
invisibleman
I wish that I had a reset button. America doesn't deserve this much bad publicity. Bush really did us well. And the majority of Americans voted for that guy twice. What does that REALLY say about the country as a whole in the worldwide perspective?

Maybe we deserve what we got. Vote smart in the next election, maybe? I appreciate America and its Constitution. The ideals. Get a politician that isn't going to piss off people in other countries, perhaps?
 
B
"I often hear about all the bad things that we Citizens of the U. S. A. must endure or live through."

I think you misheard this. Its more all the bad things the rest of the world must endure because of you. Nobody doubts that the USA is a wonderful place to live if you are at or above the 50 percentile - it is, after all, the pinnacle of decadent profligacy. It's called the "flow up" effect - as opposed to the "trickle down". The poorest in the world donate their labour, and the poorest countries their resources, to channel material wealth upward into the rich and powerful of the western world - which include the USA and my adopted country Australia. The latest financial crisis has starkly laid bare what the system is all about.
 

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