We produce 25%of the world's pollution, we consume a third of the world's wood, a third of the world's expenditure on weapons is ours, we use a quarter of the world's coal, natural gas and electricity, we have around 11,000 murders a year (domestic), our army has murdered about 150,000 Afghan and Iraqi civilians, more than 2500 US soldiers have died in Iraq, we are the world's #1 drug users, we have the world's largest national debt, our average general culture is equal to Jamaica's, our best scientists and engineers are of foreign origin, Mexico's election system is the most modern and advanced in the world, and we're far from it, our house representatives never EVER read proposals before they're passed,and...add your own data. The list is long.
200587
Sounds like left-wing propaganda to me.  I am an American engineer and no foreigner can hold a candle to me.  If you're not happy with the United States, please ride on an American-made Boeing jet to whatever foreign land you like.
662200
do you live in the USA? well i think that we should take care of our own first unlike what we currently do! we need to stop spending billions upon billions of American dollars over seas and our space projects and take care of home first ..... then worry about everything else..... the USA should not have a homless population muchless starving familes!
352042
This may come as a shock for many people there in US, but US is not the world, its only a small part of it.\n\nIts your government we certainly don't like, they are really dumb, making stupid wars all over, don't care for their own people unless they have lots of money, they don't care about pollution and you are doing many things above your own know how and technology.\nThen shit happens too often and people get killed even.\n\nFor the rest, most of you are nice people, but don't sell your God so much, if they need it, they can find it themselves, don't show the known way, it makes us go in different direction anyway.
404013
Number 3 is basically genocide.\n\nIt will make us look real good in a global sense!
115932
We are horrible, evil people. The reality is we want to destroy all life on the planet....ask Osama
506205
Humanity is the cancer of the earth
650601
I agree. We're waaaaaay too involved with the business of other countries. There's so many more things on the homefront that should be focused on, but the gov't is too worried about foreign diplomacy. We need to take care of ourselves before we can even think about aiding others. \n\nWe also need alternative fuel/energy sources. badly.
652066
Yeah, seems simple, but when theres tons of money involved, it tends to *uc* things up.  If it were up to me, I would have already nuked that whole damn continent and turned it to glass, with all that sand over there.  People can say "oh the poor innocent civillians" all they want, but the truth of the matter is if it comes down to either us or them, I say tough sh*t, let 'em have it.  They have something we want and they know it, oil.  We should just take over that country, and while we're at it, Iraq, Afganistan, .....etc...   The only problem with that would be the rest of the world would then have to purchase oil from us, which would piss them off.  I do not feel sorry for the people over there.  You can't.  They will not EVER be at peace, its just not in their nature.  They have been at war with someone for as long as any of them can remember, and its not going to change.  Its like its bred into them.  Just think about it, if the US took over and it became a democracy like we have today in America, where the women have total freedom to walk down the street without their damn head covered and have the right to visit a doctor without a male chapperone, all hell would break loose.  They are not like us, it would take years and years before a new generation of middle easterners would have the confidence to do such a thing.  They are a highly exciteable race.  They will scream and cry and fight and totally freak out on your ass at the drop of a hat.  I am not racist, but I do speak the truth.  We are not all the same, people, just admit it.  I used to live in the middle east so I am not just talking trash.  They believe their way of life is right, and ours is wrong.  Which is fine with me.  The only problem I have is when they hate us so much they try to kill us, like flying planes into towers, that sort of thing.  We don't go mess with them just because their religion is different than ours, what gives them the right to do it to us?  I don't think we should pull out of the war, but I do think we are not doing enough, if our men are going to be over there, then at least make it worth US lives.  Lets not feel sorry for the civilians, who walk up to our soldiers carrying their starving children(or a bomb)but lets do the job right, because if not, they will be back another day, just like that pesky mosquito it took to much effort to swat the first time.
663056
We have given more to the world than any nation on Earth. Our people have sacrificed themselves all over the world, we give money and aid to everyone. We are the place people are trying to get into from all over the world. Yes I am proud to be an American.
565433
It's our choice to destroy this planet, not His.  We choose to pollute the earth.  We choose to mine everything out of the ground that's useful to us.  We choose to kill each other and everything around everything around us.  I swear the earth has had about all she can take from us.  I think that's why we are having so many natural disasters.
544574
In terms of natural resources the United States is definitely rich.  We can mine minerals and then make items such as cars, trucks, and massive industrial equipment.   We can harvest trees and build houses, and feed not only North America but parts of the world.  \nFinancially, China is the financial capital of the world, not the US.\nThe US is the largest debtor nation in the world and the dollar is on the decline.
47198
We are hardwired to destroy this planet like termites destroy a piece of wood. Surely you have noticed that we are not the same as the other creatures who live here? We do not develope a sense of equalibrium with the environment around us, because we are no longer adapting to fit into our surroundings. Instead we change our surroundings to fit our wants and needs. I believe man is too easily distracted and caught up in his own drama to repair any of the damage he's done.
460253
US foregion policy lacks common sense, we armed many people we now combat or later did, Castro was armed by us, Iran, with the Shaw, Hussien was pu tinto power by us to combat the Aiyloitlla, Pineapple face Noregia, the list goes on. Its because we are the worlds bully, the tough kid who believes we rule. We need to revert back to the days of allowing people to handle their own affairs, supsope that France, Germany, and Russia had joined with England in combatting the terrorists known as the American Revolutionaries? You'd be singing God Save The Queen
3318
For all of America's weath and influence, for all of its powerful media, we are surprisingly isolated from the world.  What's more, we are still very slowing climbing out of the cultural muck that has allowed many of us to believe we are literally superior to the rest of the world.\n\nAmerica continues to behave arrogantly to the world, insisting we always know best, and our interests should be always honored.  It has done a great deal of harm to us the past 15 year in my opinion.\n\nIf only some of us could see ourselves in the eyes of those around us in the world.  Of course, most of us are so conceited and self-involved that we couldn't care less.
563064
Sad to say, but I think America is probably one of the greatest problems this world is facing.\n\nIt's not terrorists.. jeeze krapoleze. They've been around forever, it's only America that has stirred them up with our corporate greed and the Bush Administration.\n\nTerrorists.. they are the ones with the nasty nuclear bombs. right? I don't think most Americans know how many nuclear warheads we ourselves have!!!\n\nWe have over 5,000 ACTIVE nuclear warheads in our possession! almost 10,000 in total. WTF do we need with 10,000 nuclear warheads?!?! freaking good grief. In the past three years, we've killed thousands.. whoze the terrorists? I'm losing track. I support the troops, but I don't support the decision maker.\n\nAside from the war crud.. we have the power (resources) to be the most powerful nation around. But we use it in what I feel are the wrong ways. I mean come on, we're taxed beyond belief and yet our school systems, public transportation, healthcare is freaking out of control, good freaking bloody hail! We spend more money and resources on military than all other countries put together. And where do you think all that money is going? Who's pocketing the profits? Big freaking corporations. If we just took 5% of the military spending and put it into the other issues, we could be finding cures and helping those that need it. We have starving people, homeless people right here. 5% cut in military is not going to stop our country from defending ourselves from attacks and whatnot.\n\nI think being proud to be an American is more difficult for every American to say anymore. We consume a gigantic percentage of the worlds resources as compared to our population.  That's sickening in itself. I watch the learning channel where they rip up perfectly good household kitchens - throw it in the dump - and make new kitchens just because it's more visually appealing. We're so dam spoiled rotten it's sick. We buy groceries and throw half of it away when it spoils. We build mansions for one person to live in. We buy brand new appliances because the corporations make it too expensive to fix the old ones. Things last 5 years instead of 50. How long do you think things would last if we required the corporations to take back the appliances and cars after their life cycle was up to recycle the goods? SUVs are used primarily for moving one person to and from work and everywhere else. The Hummer? \n\nMoney / corporate greed have become the American way - that's the primary problem with respect to everything. And most of it revolves around our judicial system. When you award millions of dollars to one person for a spilt cup of coffee, it's screwed.\n\nI asked a person who moved here.. does she like it better here or from the third world developing nation she came from.. she had to think for quite a while. That's pathetic. We get the same score as a third world nation? When I ask why... her response was "here it's nuts. all the rules and regulations and people winning crazy lawsuits.. at least in my country you can live your life."\n\nI don't think America is seeing the changes we're going through and what we could be doing to the entire world. We're just going through life.. day by day.. the American throw-away society. Throwing away our freedoms, throwing away our rights, and throwing away our future so we can live the now.
621906
Every country is in debt. We are the richest country in the World.
480900
I don't think we have reached the point of no return but I do think we are dangerously close to getting to that point.  I don't pretend to be a  political expert by any stretch, just an average person so I may be wrong, but it seems to me that we are way too anxious to go all over the world to fight battles for who ever cries for help while leaving our own borders wide open.  We have terrorism going on in our own country everyday with freaks like the guy who went into the Amish school and shot 10 little girls killing 5 of them.  I don't know what the average daily number of homicides is in this country but I know that in our state capitol, the number this year is staggering.  Drive by shootings, murder - suicide and random acts of violence are nothing but homeland terrorism.  That, coupled with the horridous influx of illegal immigrants has made this a scary place to live.  I think we need to stop trying to save the world and work on saving our nation.  I completely support our troops and the work they do every day all around the world and am actually the mother of a military person but I still think we need to use our military here at home to close our borders, protect us from incoming threats and concentrate on Homeland Security.  How can we save the world if we can't save ourselves?  (you said you wanted detailed answers! :)