Who thinks the U.S.A. is becoming the poorest country?
356634
Why should business stay?  In truth, the latest statistics are showing a rather amazing boom, and are still increasing.\n\nTruth is that the socialist policies we have adopted and social attitudes make most big business (and much of small businesses) look for other countries who won't follow the same policies.\n\nWe tax them far more percentage-wise, than any other group.  We punish them for their success and their creation of larger companies and thus more jobs.  We attack them with insults, pretend they are some massive entity trying to hurt us all, and cal them "THE MAN".\n\nWe insist they give even more away to charities of OUR choice, or we call them racist, bigotted, greedy, selfish, or a puppet of Republicans (or Democrats, or whoever is in power at the time).\n\nWe laugh at the few (very few) criminals we catch that are involved in business, and then generalize and stereotype all CEOs and businessmen as crooked, greedy, and out to con the world.\n\nI'm surprised more people aren't ashamed at the childish, short sighted behavior of our people.  I'm amazed our business leaders have the courage and patriotism to stay so often rather than just leaving the society to the socialist forces trying to undermine it.\n\nWhile they do, I'll be speaking up for them.  Most sane citizens will when they realize the damage being done to our country by the anti-U.S.A. rhetoric being used.\n\nWe are CHOOSING disaster.  Time for all of us, Democrats (me) and Republicans, to choose differently.
631993
I don't think the United States has become a bunch of loosers. I just believe that our politicians have been too busy wiggling around the problem for too long, and now it has caught up with them and they don't know what to. One thing for sure, they won't turn to the citizens for answers. They will continue to wriggle around until the problem is completely uncontrolable, then the United States will no longer exist as a soverign nation, and it will become the slum of the world. Crime and drugs will become the predominant economy. Morals will deteriorate, boys will become girls, girls will become power mongers. wars will breakout between homo and heterosexuals, babies will be harvested from the wombs of their mothers and be ground up for cattle feed, astronauts will hijack space shuttles in futile attempts to escape their beloved homelands, lunatics will rule over malls and shopping centers, the homeless will reside in former governer digs and mott-the-hoople will adorn the dollar bill.
676000
I belive its gonna get worst. I live in New York also and its true rent is getting very bad. I say that only the rich will be able to live in this city. All us poor people gonna have to move to another state.
46911
I know the poorest country in the Western hemisphere is Haiti.  In the world...I don't know.
360636
Times change my dear. I've traveled the world quiet a bit, including the Middle East. I saw poverty in a lot of places like you would not believe unless you see it with your own eyes!! We have problems in our country like any place but you still can't beat it! If you live in America, kiss the ground and be thankful.
294557
Generally, low developing countries are poor ... not just the people, but the government itself. And for the government to meet its obligations, it often simply makes more money -- but this additional currency leads to the devaluation of the existing currency and leads to inflation.
843753
Africa...no question.\nThe USA only look after themselves.\n\nThe US doesn't give aid so much as cynically uses it's wealth to 'buy' global political advantage. It's never some altruistic humanitarian reason, they always demand something in return.
377956
By definition, those on the lowest incomes are poor - this is true for all countries.\n\nHow poor - well, if peoples' income is insufficient to buy the very basic food, shelter, healthcare, education and clothes then those people are in poverty. And most countries would 'step in' at this level to ensure that these basic needs are met and citizens do not die of starvation, primary illness or exposure\n\nHistorically, the US has relied on immigrants arriving and working in poverty as a base and not supported these people as they are not in the truest sense citizens. As the US restricts immigration, more of its own citizens are in poverty. Which then presents a dilemma - does the US let its own citizens die of poverty? Given the TV footage of people requiring 2+ jobs and charity food aid just to survive, the US answer is yes\n\nSo a mixed economy (some socialism, some capitalism) is the preferred model in Europe where the appalling poverty of the post WW2 years are still more than a memory\n\nBTW - France has the best medical care system in the world according to most measures - the US varies between 4th and 10th
396005
Developing nations are creating their own problems. The US gives them more aid than most of them do for themselves.
459286
Capitalism. America will either move towards Socialism or die under the weight of the insane amount of materialism we've created. Rich people want more and more and don't want to share, poor people want what the rich people have, and the middle class are only slaves to materialism. It's been proven the divide between upper and lower classes is quickly increasing. I can walk down any street in my city and see the dirt poor wiping the asses of the wealthy, it's sickening. It can't last much longer though. Just a matter of time before it crumbles.
991769
I agree that America is going downhill fast!! I love the country but not the way it is being run by a bunch of idiots.
33634
i dont know that I see it as the next third world.  But I do see it slumping close to it.  We are as a nation losing power, wealth, reputation.  I have been abroad and I can tell you the picture that Europeans paint of us is not always nice.  Economically we are losing our footing.  Banking, cars, products in general.  People in america and abroad are buying European products, Jananese proiducts.  It doesnt do our economy any good and yet as far as I can tell they have done nothing to change this.  We are busy fixing the lives of others however we havent taken the time to take care of our own citizens lives.  And you have other countries offering us help becase we are unable to do so because of the mess we have created else where.  I truly believe we are losing our super power status and becoming just another country that exists on the planet.  Living abroad I dont like telling people i am from america because it starts up alot of contoversy.  Alot of arguments as to what it means to be an american and what we have become.  I agree with you when you wake up and smell the coffee. you arent smelling folgers any more.  Its just the reality we are forced to swallow as americans and it isnt easy for us I think.
875781
Yes I think he is (agree with you!).\n\nHis concept is the "poor" will be helped because, the larger population will bear the large pie of the 2% increase.\n\nThe "poor"...well... 2% of nothing is not much..."it helps them".\n\nThe majority will pay the 2%, and the Govt. gains the extra and will pass that onto the "poor".\n\nBetter read the small print!
674890
Bush's own supporters on here have many times insulted America... \n\nThey constantly call the poor "lazy," even though what most of them consider poor makes up more than 50 percent of the population. They say they don't want to work, even though many poor have more than one job just to make it...\n\nThey call those that go to public schools stupid and say the public education system needs to be done away with and privatized...  they also want to take more money away for private school vouchers, which would only take money away from an already underfunded system...\n\nThey even don't seem to value our lives and send us to Iraq, the poor clearly make up the majority of the Army and Marines... and they don't even have a good reason... WMDs that aren't there?... Are our soldiers not worth knowing these kind of things for sure?... We haven't caught bin Laden yet, we focus on a nation that has nothing to do with terror?\n\nI'm getting really sick of them insulting the majority of America... which includes me...
875441
It already is.  As they are much more subtle than we, it does not look like much, unless you look closely as you have.  They have been buying up parts of the US, Africa, the Pacific Rim,  and negotiating deals all over the world as well.  The have invested heavily in education while our kids can't compete with Rwanda in math and science.  AS the world goes digital, and international conglomeration of business is nearly complete, people in our society will find they cannot compete, lacking even the basics in education.  I think we may well wake up one morning to find we have fallen way behind, and discover we have become a third world nation.
390946
are you serious ? or you are just posting this to get a kick out of people's responses.\n\nIt is a known fact that out of all industrialized nations in the world, the US does the least to help the poor (in terms of their possibilities). There are many good things about the US, helping the poor ain't one of them !\n\nWhere exactly do you get your information ? Let me guess Fox News?
114891
Poverty is a financial state.