Do you love America?

catbox · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

I have no experience living anywhere else. I have been many places iin the US but nothing beats the NW. All sorts of freaky people, healthy eats, beautiful scenery, great cycling, and friendly folks. I do love this part of America, and ok...some parts of the rest of it. But in the end...like the bumper stickers says, "I love my country, it's the government I can't stand!" haha....

I often think I would love living out of the country...my interests in cycling, art, and soccer don't exactly jive with the American male gig here!

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steam_cannon · Expert Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 2311 Location: MA

American can be alright... Depends on where you're sitting I guess.
The front page of one of todays newspapers on my desk reads:

americandream · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:53 am Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

It depends on what you mean as well.

I for one love every corner of my planet...the fact that it's incrementally being reduced to rubble and trash by incompetent government and deluded society does not detract from the fact that it's a wonderful place. And America is truly splendid along with the rest.
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green_achers · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

I love America because it's part of the Earth, and I love the Earth. I am particularly attached to a few small patches of it that I call or have called Home.
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killJOY · Fission Joined: Feb 21, 2005 Posts: 2201 Location: ^NNE^

It's like asking do I love my left nut.

I speak no other language, have lived nowhere else, and am connected to the land.

I'm continually reading American history and works by American authors.

We have an on-going project here at home figuring out how they did it here in the 1830s.

The government and about 60% of the people are howlingly insane, however.

RonMN · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

KillJOY Wrote:
It's like asking do I love my left nut.

: Laughing

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While I haven't "lived" anywhere else, I've traveled to many other countries & I have never seen a place I would rather live!

Sure America has it's problems, but it's the best place I've ever seen anywhere. It is us, the people, that need to do a better job TELLING the Gov't what to do (or dismanteling the gov't & put a new one in it's place that WILL listen to the people).

It's our one & only constitutional obligation, and we're failing at it.
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holmes · Fission Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 2362

the turd world extras human biomass is growing exponentially along with the cretenous fat pig gestapo. But still love it. For now....
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shakespear1 · Light Sweet Crude Joined: May 13, 2005 Posts: 1509

I love it with all its faults.

It is not perfect ut few place come close to giving someone opportunities that one gets in the US.

Bill Gates would have gotten nowhere in Russia , China or India.

To trick the people is easy, thus America has been ticked. Those running the show are not true Americans. They hijacked this nation on a bankrupt trajectory. The real ones are found in small towns of Vermont, Wisconsin, Arkansas etc.
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shakespear1 · Light Sweet Crude Joined: May 13, 2005 Posts: 1509

Here is a good example of what I was referring to above.

Lawyer

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shakespear1 · Light Sweet Crude Joined: May 13, 2005 Posts: 1509

I was thinking along the lines of being able to start a business, find money and be a self starter.

In Russia you are correct, the mob is the equivalent of innovative business model. However even here you would need connections Smile

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Roy · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

I love the "idea" of America, much much more than the reality that exists here, and now.

The ideals expressed in teh Constitution, though they may be distasteful to fascists, communists, monarchists, and socialists are revolutionary in and of themselves.

The whole concept of liberty and freedom of interference from government is an anomaly in world history. The lone exception in all of recorded history.

Regrettably, most of my fellow citizens fail to grasp that, and vote for ever more government, war, and taxes.

Which is why I believe this country, as a functional political entity is totally Fark. I hate that but I can't see any other outcome.

That brings me great sadness when I actually stop to think about our situation and our 'preference' for Clinton, Obama, and McAmnesty.

Three birds of a feather as far as I'm concerned.

efarmer · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 394

Sure, she is lovable without a doubt.

(pssssst how do you get this working both ways?)

sandbyme · Coal Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 5

I say we buy 50 million electric vehicles, paint them all red white and blue and give them away.

The $507 billion wasted in Iraq would have bought 43 million of them.

The projected 1 trillion dollars would have bought how many?
80 MILLION

God help us all if we do not change now,
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