Alright, he's your opportunity to state why America is #1. Excluding 2nd and 3rd world countries of course. It's pretty obvious why its nicer here than sierra leone.

Do we really have more freedoms than the rest of the world?

Standard of living?

Taxes?

Healthcare?

Ecology?

 

Gas is cheaper here than just about anywhere else and we still complain about it nonstop. Got to love that.

 

2.5 STi

Silicone Implants

The Grand Canyon

 

The fact that we can post our opinions like this.

-Chris

 

But what freedoms do we have that the other countries don't? Like britain, Australia, etc...

 

please, no one say freedom of religion because that is bogus.

Our currency has Christian messages, Gays cannot get married (Jesus says so), and the pledge of allegence is to God as well as our country.

We have freedom to choose which religion we affiliate with but we are constantly influenced to join one over the other.

(although, if we do choose one over the other we are not tortured and killed for it)

 

People take their "standard of living" for granted. They forget there's life beyond our borders and people that are much less fortunate. The worst American Ghettos are considered prime real estate in other parts of the world. In places like the middle east and Africa you can witness people gathering feces infested water with a smile on their face and it really makes you think how good we have it here.

I think people need to be subject to seeing this first hand... their views on the world would dramatically change and they wouldn't be preaching about our occupation of Iraq as much. People truly live in a box and it's sad.

 

Well, to a certain extent people have to take their standard of living for granted. Our standard of living here is awesome, but if i sit around and trip out on how awesome it is all day, i won't get much work done. It's also a relative term, a business man can turn up his nose at a mexican fisherman, while the fisherman can do the same back.

I guess i would just like to know why we think America is the best place in the world - it just seems like lots of the stuff we pride ourselves on is pretty common elsewhere too. So really, what do we have that other people don't?

 

Regardless of international opinion and the abundance of hate for Americans, we are the only superpower, and I feel safer than I would if I lived somewhere else. Most of us take this for granted, but I see it as a benifit of loiving here.

...and something else... (correct me if this is wrong) I believe the British public does not have the same amount of leverage to periodically remove their leader from power. I'm not very familiar with their parliamentary system, but I think it is much more bureaucratic (sp?). This came to mind because, IMO, the only way to improve our image internationally, we must remove Bush from office in the upcoming election. There is no way we can change the opinion of the entire world and reverse the animosity toward the Bush administration (and, in turn, the entire US).

[begin Kerry bashing]

 

In no particular order

Bourbon
Internet
Henry Ford
Wright Bros
Nukes
Apollo 11
Interstate System
LA **** Industry
Hella Immigrants Sharing Cool Culture & Cuisine
MLB
NFL
Indy 500
50 diverse states from sea to shining sea.
Hawaii
Silicon Valley
BBQ
The West
Jazz
Blues
Rap
Rock & Roll
Corn Dogs
The Navajo Nation
Springtime on a Big 10 Campus (braless hotties catching sun)
Vegas
Elvis
Playboy
The Constitution

 

Thats perfect, it's that kind of stuff im interested in.

 

Man I forgot the most important one! I gotta second that, for real.

 

We have freedom of speech, you dirty cork soakers!!!

Honestly, the brits have to deal with govmint censorship.

But how is it they have ***** on regular TV and we don't??

I'm puzzled now.

 

I was in Britain recently and I constantly saw, on television, Tony Blair having to defend himself against his opponents.

Britain also has a legitimate 3 party system.

Want to know something that we have that no other country has???

The Patriot Act.

 

Aclu?