USA rocks because we can tell our government to #$@#-off and they can't do anything about. It's not our government or policies or whatever that made USA great. It is the people. People are allowed to live their lives the way they see fit. Welfare, taxes, and restrictive laws are what keeps a country down. The natural human spirit is freedom loving, responsible, and charitable. We don't need a government to make us do the right things and well.
Socialism sucks the life out of the country becuase it stiffles man's self intrest. Humans don't need a dole or subsidised food in order to survive and be happy. You take away money from people by threat of force and imprisonment and then give it food producers so those same people can afford the food and tell them to greatful for the favor, how does that make sense? It doesn't and it is a lie. It is just a way for those in power to retain their power and make people afraid to stand up for themselves by thinking they need some sort of overlord or protector in order to enjoy life and not fear for their future.
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People naturally will look out for those that can't help themselves and don't need a police force avilable to enforce charity.
We in the USA try to keep this type of government bad behavior down to a minimum. There are those (morons) that wish to turn this country into a socialist state, however I chalk this bad thinking up to a lack of proper education and the over abundance of propaganda from quasa-communistic orginizations like Greenpeace in our media.
If Americans think a law is unjust we will do everything in our power to circumvent it, it is our duty to break unjust laws (think Martin Luther King and the civil disobediance movemnt). We depend on the people's ability for self-government so we only have to depend a bare essential external government to protect and honor the people's liberty. That is why religon has to play a large part in the dialy lives of the people. Without a beleif in a higher power life freedom and liberty are illogical and a democracy begins to break down becuase the people become scared of those around them and things they don't understand, they then create a artifical higher power the ease lifes uncertianies. That's why bastards like government of communistic china squash religous thought at every opportunity -They only want the people to be beholdent to one force.. themselves (such is the communist's new religon: "a bright new future": a lie).
When Bill Cliton created a budgitory crisis and shut the government down (the only good thing to come from his administration), most everybody felt as if had a weight lifted. Nobody freaked out. Everything ran like clockwork, the only weird thing that happened was they could swear on the radio because the FCC shut down, nobody gave a s#$t.
Our government for the past 30 years or so has been acting a bit weird and trying to grasp power. It is coming close to time to bitch slap the government (peacefully ofcourse) to teach them whose boss.
That is why we seem to have a very arrogent foriegn policy. Because every desicion (treaty) has to be ratified by the people's representatives (congress) and if we don't like it it ain't going to happen. Now this is not completely perfect system and every once of the while the government will get away with something naughty, but we try to keep it to a minimum.
If the European governments had the same respect for the people as we try to force our government to have the US would not be the only world superpower. It is not the obsession of every American to dominate the world. We are "number 1" because freedom = success thats all, however if someone thinks they can screw with us they are mistaken. If anybody was try to break into my home and pose a threat to me or my family, they should considure himself a dead man. I feel that all USA is is my home and every American belongs to my extended family. Most everybody here feels the same as I do and we expect our government to carry out the will of the people.
This is America's sense of pride and our source of nationalism. All of us are Americans, not nessicarialy because we were born here, but because all of us know we can have something better and we welcome likeminded individuals. We accept unskilled inviduals every day, it just that we have set up ways to make this happen and we don't want masses of people coming here everyday to take advantage of us.