Just thought I would ad my 2 cents in seeing as I am 100% American :)
The original topic was about the deficit...
How can it be... well if you dont know how to run a company how do you think it would be to run a Country!!
I work in Finance and know a little about where the money goes and how it gets allotted.
It is real easy to overspend because you arent working with real money. Everything is spent before you get any money in...
Wer have checking accounts so we see what we have and dont have (especially in my case) daily. Gov'ts have to plan for years at a time.
The average American doesnt care about the budget or deficit as long as thier lives are going good. So... as long as they have enough to pay their rent and feed their kids everything is lovely.
@ Stormy- no one wants to look in their own back yard. (Period)
As said in the International Forum - it doesnt matter who is the leader or of what country there will be problems. It is easier to look somewhere else and we as people take the easy way out.
@ all - It is easy and also unfair to compare Bush to Hitler.
Bushg actually thinks he is doing a good thing for the world. Hitler thouhgt he was doing something good for Germans.
The problem is that Bush was not voted to fix the world problems and noone has the ba#$s to tell him so.
He has a whole crew (cabinet) of yes people who tell him he is doing the right thing.
America is the worlds ONLY Super power for right now. Countries that used to be able to hang (Russia, China etc.) cannot becuase they were convinced at one time or another to switch their Governing style.
The EU in a few years will be able to compete financially and so will the Asian market. But it takes many countries to come up with or bring to the table to power the US can.
Militarily NOONE can mess with the US. It takes several countries to even try.
9-11 is considered to be a Worldwide event because...
Frankly I dont know why. It happened in my home State of New York. So it does effect me personally. It happened in the United States so the people there are/were effected. But the whole world felt sympathy and it was used against the whole world.
Terrorism is a horrible thing.
But it gets used not only by Arabs.
We could go back in recent History before 9-11 and see that nothing was done before to stop it Globally (Ireland, Israel, Palestine, Africa etc.).
Bush thinks he is doing the right thing. I dont. As long as he can scare people into thinking there is some mystery terrorist coming to kill them he will continue with his plan of taking over the world.
If that means starting witrh the countries that have the oil then so be it...
Who knows who is next.
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