Why isn't every other country in the world trying to copy the US ?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Hey imagine that. Russia now openly opposing the US dollar as reserve currency.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08- ... tch-dollar

Seems I’m more right all the time lately. Weird, that.

[C-Mag]

BroGrump................. Buddy

2014
https://www.gold-eagle.com/russia-china ... -us-dollar

2009
https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs ... dy_Web.pdf
2007
https://www.thetrumpet.com/3327-new-glo ... buy-a-euro
2004
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/2004111539773307/

Not breaking news after 15 years.............. but if you are need of warm feelings, I will agree with you that Russia opposing the US as the Reserve Currency

[Speaker to Animals]

Mr. Russia Russia Russia sure does consume a lot of Russian propaganda.

Weird how that works..

[katarn]

I say how fairly is that wealth distributed?
How come with all that wealth you have such a poorly financed infrastructure. You have crumbling dams, bridges unsafe to use, a third world public transport system.
Where does all that wealth go?
Why do you have 11 massive aircraft carriers, the three biggest military airforces in the world and yet cities like Detroit which have been abandoned by the government, an appalling state school system which cannot even guarantee the safety of its pupils never mind educate them to a reasonable standard?

I won't contest the faults of the state education system, I'm feeling some of them as we type, but saying we can't guarantee the safety of students seems like a bad point to raise. What would you consider to be guaranteeing the safety of students? And how far do whatever those policies are go? Do they protect Bob from Jim with the grudge and the mean right cross? Sure you're more likely to die if you're shot by a lunatic school shooter, but your safety is far more threatened in an American school by the other students you're around on a daily basis. This isn't to say schools are a madhouse of violence and bullying, though it definitely happens, I'm just raising the issue to prompt thought on what it might mean to 'guarantee safety' of students. You say we "cannot even," implying that it should be something we can do relatively easily, but I wonder hw you think it could be done.

[Fife]

Who can argue with that?

[Martin Hash]

I’ve lived around. Visited 110 countries. Lived in Britain. I’m always, “Jesus, back home we’d fire that son of a bitch.” Can’t wait to get back to the U.S.

I couldn’t have done what I did in any other country. But you have to be raised with it. You have to be ambitious. You have to take risks. You can’t let crabs-in-a-bucket become the national pastime.

Monte would do terrible here. He shouldn’t even visit.

p.s. If your kid is special, send them here; America is the Big Leagues. Anybody who’s never competed here is a wuss.

p.p.s. If your kid is a klutz, discourage them from coming here.

[Martin Hash]

If you’ve got money, America has the greatest healthcare in the world.

If you’ve got money, America has the greatest education in the world.

If you’ve got the money, America has the greatest opportunities in the world.

I’m sure you’re seeing the theme: don’t come here if you’re broke, or lack ambition to become unbroke.

[Montegriffo]

I say how fairly is that wealth distributed?
How come with all that wealth you have such a poorly financed infrastructure. You have crumbling dams, bridges unsafe to use, a third world public transport system.
Where does all that wealth go?
Why do you have 11 massive aircraft carriers, the three biggest military airforces in the world and yet cities like Detroit which have been abandoned by the government, an appalling state school system which cannot even guarantee the safety of its pupils never mind educate them to a reasonable standard?

I won't contest the faults of the state education system, I'm feeling some of them as we type, but saying we can't guarantee the safety of students seems like a bad point to raise. What would you consider to be guaranteeing the safety of students? And how far do whatever those policies are go? Do they protect Bob from Jim with the grudge and the mean right cross? Sure you're more likely to die if you're shot by a lunatic school shooter, but your safety is far more threatened in an American school by the other students you're around on a daily basis. This isn't to say schools are a madhouse of violence and bullying, though it definitely happens, I'm just raising the issue to prompt thought on what it might mean to 'guarantee safety' of students. You say we "cannot even," implying that it should be something we can do relatively easily, but I wonder hw you think it could be done.

Well I would suggest tighter regulations on gun ownership but that's a non starter when you consider ownership a right.
That just leaves increased security at schools. Airport style metal detectors and x-ray machines.
Really you need to ask "why do school shootings continue here when nations like Australia and the UK have eliminated them?"
If the answer is heavy regulations and gun ownership seen as a privilege to be earned not a birthright then maybe you need to fall in step with the other 99% of the nations on Earth.

[Martin Hash]

If the answer is heavy regulations and gun ownership seen as a privilege to be earned not a birthright then maybe you need to fall in step with the other 99% of the nations on Earth.

Collectivist thinking.

Monte, is there something wrong with NOT being a Collectivist?

[Speaker to Animals]

The matter comes down to whether government serves the people or whether the people serve the government. If gun ownership is a "privilege", then the people are subjects of a government. If the government is but an instrument of the people, then it can in no way rightly abridge their right to bear arms.

I'd say America has regressed a long ways towards tyranny over the centuries, but to "fall in step" with the overtly tyrannical governments of the world, such as that of Britain, would necessitate our abolishing and altering *our* government.


The British cannot say the government of the UK is "their" government, only that the British people are the property of the UK government. This government routinely treats them like slaves. They are literally property of that government.