I don't like bringing copypasta threads over from the DUmp, mostly because most of the copy and paste crowd over there simply posts some numbnuts knownothing as being authoritative, do not add their own comments, and then sit back in the warm glow of the fellow idiots. I'm making an extraordinary stupidity exception this time.
This is some commie ranting about the United States.This is the DUmmies lapping it up.readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 05:28 AM
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The Grim Truth
Americans, I have some bad news for you:
You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin.
If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.
I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home...
http://americathegrimtruth.wordpress.com /
(well this hits like a punch in the gut...)
Of course it does. It feeds your delusions of how things outside the US are.
PuraVidaDreamin (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 05:55 AM
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3. yup The truth hurts
With the right leadership, this could be different.
But that type of leadership doesn't have a long life expectancy.
I'd like to think Lenin and his sycophants would never have had a chance here.
B Calm (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 06:06 AM
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5. Right wingers will be calling you un american for posting the truth
No, we call you un-american for being a useless lazy dope smoking lay about.
Taitertots (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 06:16 AM
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6. Biased non-sense
Why don't you go to Europe? Oh yeah, the whole Eurozone in on the brink of collapse.
Why don't you move to China? Oh yeah, Chinese workers suffer horrific treatment compared to Americans.
Why don't you move to Japan? Oh yeah, They just finished a lost decade. Most of Asia just finished with a massive economic meltdown.
But we should believe that the governments of the world have conspired together to screw themselves out of trillions of their own dollars.
Common sense! This can not go unchallenged.
sendero (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 06:51 AM
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8. Don't look now..
... but the "whole Eurozone" is in no worse shape financially than we are.
WE are on the brink of collapse.
Taitertots (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 06:56 AM
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9. We are in no danger of defaulting on our debt
The Eurozone is on the brink of total collapse. WE are already well into recovering.
sendero (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 07:04 AM
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10. You are woefully misinformed..
... but that is no surprise based on your absurd comments.
And on it goes with Taitertots trying to inject a little sanity and other DUmmies screeching it can not be so.
RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 09:32 AM
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25. People need to hear things like this: Our children are obese and sick. The wealthy own us.
America is a shitty country.
It's ok. Admitting it is the first step. Rec.
Your grandchildren play X-box and Playstation 3 ten hours a day. They are fat from not doing anything. Just like dear old Granma.
Bonobo (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 09:58 AM
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29. He's right. I left and I am not coming back.
I will miss hamburgers, halloween, hot dogs, pizza and some good friends.
But I care more about my kids and their future.
I will not miss living in a fear-based society and losing sleep over fears of it all coming apart.
I am in a country where I can expect to have teeth until the day I die because the expectations of the people here are that the government at least owes them medical care and THAT is a very basic and needed thing in order to have a decent quality of life.
I will be renouncing my citizenship in a few months.
It was a nice dream when I was younger, but the last 30 years have been rocky and it's going to get much worse.
Get out while you can folks -If you can.
It is a grim truth, but we're all adults. Time to open our eyes and discern the truth from the lies.
Then you haven't left. You think you can't get hamburgers or pizza outside the US, that gives you away right there.
Catherina (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 11:12 AM
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33. I am an Expat for those exact reasons.
Edited on Sat Nov-13-10 11:20 AM by Catherina
I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.
I am an Expat for this very reason.
That article hit home hard.
Rec'd.
If you’re “lucky,†you might even land a job good enough to qualify you for a home loan. And then you’ll spend half your working life just paying the interest on the loan – welcome to the world of American debt slavery. America has the illusion of great wealth because there’s a lot of “stuff†around, but who really owns it? In real terms, the average American is poorer than the poorest ghetto dweller in Manila, because at least they have no debts. If they want to pack up and leave, they can; if you want to leave, you can’t, because you’ve got debts to pay.
All this begs the question: Why would anyone put up with this? Ask any American and you’ll get the same answer: because America is the freest country on earth. If you believe this, I’ve got some more bad news for you: America is actually among the least free countries on earth. Your piss is tested, your emails and phone calls are monitored, your medical records are gathered, and you are never more than one stray comment away from writhing on the ground with two Taser prongs in your ass.
And that’s just physical freedom. Mentally, you are truly imprisoned. You don’t even know the degree to which you are tormented by fears of medical bankruptcy, job loss, homelessness and violent crime because you’ve never lived in a country where there is no need to worry about such things.
But it goes much deeper than mere surveillance and anxiety. The fact is, you are not free because your country has been taken over and occupied by another government. Fully 70% of your tax dollars go to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon is the real government of the United States. You are required under pain of death to pay taxes to this occupying government. If you’re from the less fortunate classes, you are also required to serve and die in their endless wars, or send your sons and daughters to do so. You have no choice in the matter: there is a socio-economic draft system in the United States that provides a steady stream of cannon fodder for the military.
70% goes to the Pentagon? Yeah right another outright lie. Even if it was, our national defense is absolutely essential for the more than half the world that are our allies and depend on us backing them up in a pinch.
tjwash (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 11:45 AM
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37. I wonder where the guy that wrote this some years ago slithered off to.
Edited on Sat Nov-13-10 11:48 AM by tjwash
This was written a few years ago, before the economies of Britain, Spain, Greece, and Ireland completely tanked, and dragged the rest of the European economies into the toilet. It was also passed around the internet quite frequently, and showed up on tons of message boards, well, like it is here! Its the zombie post from hell that refuses to die.
Now the countries that this guy crowed about are far worse off than the US is now. Daily riots are happening in several Euro-countries, because social programs in France, Italy, Greece, Germany, and England are being slashed, or altogether eliminated, bank bailouts and the need to prop up the economies of entire countries out there have had to happen, while simultaneous unemployment and skyrocketing costs of living have taken their tolls on the regular folks in a huge way.
Of course, the guy who wrote this drivel has long since disappeared, and never really emerged from the rock he crawled under to tell us what the hell happened to the model of national economies that he rubbed in peoples faces so proudly once. What a difference a few short years makes...just goes to show you, never get too cocky about things that you really have no control over.
Ah, the sound of alert buttons being mashed. Can't have truth impeding a good hate America fest.
devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-13-10 11:54 AM
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39. This past summer I discovered that Germans have it much better than us too!
Edited on Sat Nov-13-10 12:12 PM by devilgrrl
It was quite eye opening to say the least.
Sure, that's why it costs about $25 to sit down to a decent meal in Germany. $10 if you go to McDonald's.
