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Actually that is a lot less then 3/4. 3/4 would have been 2006. So you didnt criticize bush until you were a sophmore in highschool? Thats cool what a couple months after 9/11 then when they dust has settled and the air has cleared and you started to get pimples it was cool to make fun of him. I cant find the article now but I read it a couple weeks ago talking about how anytime you review W. Bush's presidency you will have to take into account all of the undermining that the left did his entire time as president. There were "journalists" printing war strategies and marked men.
Before you begin to argue with me please be from the United States. If you dnt live here i dont care for your opinion on how my country should be run. Second of all i graduated high school in 2001 which means i couldnt vote for bush the first time but ill have you know there was a keg party at my house in 2004 while you were studying your geometry.
Yeah i do know how the media works and it has changed a ton in the last 20 years. Im just mad that now the new york post has to apologize for printing a political cartoon about obama. and all these people around me in vermont calling me a "sore loser" correct me if im wrong but i couldnt pick up a newspaper in the last 5 years without reading some whiny bullshit about "president hitler"
I'm sorry, but i don't think I said anywhere that conservatives caused Global Warming or were all entirely Racist, but, left to their own devices Yes. Most of you are fucking racist as all hell. At least with Jackson and Jeremiah, they're racist pointing in the correct direction. You know that without liberal ideas, Blacks still wouldn't even be able to vote. Global Warming? They just refuse to believe it's real or do anything about it. And yeah, I'm glad you could rebut slavery with an intelligent answer, as well as with Genocide. I'm not even gonna get into it with you because you obviously don't read anything, let alone a newspaper...
As for the Housing and Loan crisis, learn some economics. Liberal "lawmakers" did not "force" any bank to hand out loans. Many banks were trying to exploit the sub-prime mortgage market in an attempt to make more cash by hiking up interest and extending more loans to more people with bad credit - by no fault of the "liberal lawmakers" did they collapse.
You don't have family values. Just the same as you don't want certain people to marry, and allow millions to divorcewillingly as many times as they please. Don' even try that one. You''re dealing with people who know what they're talking about here. Sense of hard work and duty comes to everyone. It's not even specifically Republican, so why?....
As for the last couple sentences of you post... I'm not even gonna try. You need help 'cause the shit you just spewed out is the cancer that is killing America. Patriotism for the sake of patriotism is not patriotism at all.
I'd like to see it. But even if they were forced to start loaning more to the sub-prime market, they were not forced to hike up interest rates, which led to accounts being unpayable for the average worker.
well here in austria, theres also a "free" health care. and i got a free ankle surgery, a free septum derivation and a lot of other stuff just because my mom is working and paying (18%) a small amount into social insurance.
it might sound a lot, but for all you right-winged "i live my life and i dont pay for others": you know nothing about economics. actually, thats why we need a state to provide all these things. imagine you would have to pay for every road, bridge, forest, path or whatever you use
and yes, you non-socialists, take the wall street. a good thing right now
well 18/19 % (blue/white-collar) is the social insurance stuff. because of that, i get free health care and when i am not able to work, if i dont get a job due to some random problem or when i retire, i will get money to survive. of course you carry a lot of suckers in this system, but it doesnt deny the fact that such a social system is great.
other taxes are around 35-50 (depending on income), so normally, around 55% of the money is away, but thats just how it goes...
economics, social stuff, wait a second:
n inhabitants of a town X have the amount of money w to spend. they can either use it for themselves or invest a sum x into the (non-existing) street lighting of the town. so my friend, i spare you the formulas for this model, but how much would anyone invest into the street lighting? NOTHING. because noone can be sure that some random fucker from another town is using the street lighting for some random stuff. so you reach a social inefficient status, which can only be balanced by some kind of governmental control.
so in a country, where the government is only there to sleep in congress debates, we wouldnt have street lightings (not too bad, huh?), but we wouldnt have streets to enlight as well. no bridges, no army, no public transports, NO LAW.... welcome to the republican states of america.
for the surgeries: it wasnt something immediate after an accident, but 1. people with such injuries come first (my fixed surgery date was almost cancelled due to an accident) and 2. i waited like 1 or 2 weeks.
imo, americans arent very good at recognizing past failures. and even worse at admiting or excusing.
genocide at native americans, taking their land, taking their creed and culture
slavery/racism issues against blacks for hundreds of years.
and something most people forget: hiroshima and nagasaki. ok, you can say it was war, but in my opinion it was genocide. children are born handicapped until now, millions of people died/disabled...
ok, i am from germany and live in austria. "we" have done unbelievable bad stuff to millions of people 60 years ago, BUT WE APOLOGIZED IN EVERY WAY, ADMITTED THIS GENOCIDE AND GRANDSONS AND GRANDDAUGHTERS STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. thats the difference. all these things are sad moments of mankinds history and we all would push the rewind button, if there was one, of course. but we just cant and acting like all this never happened or wasnt as bad as everyone says is bad and to be honest, americans (generalization, i know) are not doing what they should in these cases.