Our government, and major corporations support globalism, and not America. We need to support our country?
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You need to get out of the support for the Democrats and Republicans. You need to look to parties that are not financially supported by multinational corporations. America has enough people, and enough consumers that it doesn't need to go overseas to manufacture goods cheaper and make bigger profits than ever.
639508
The bottom line is it is about the all mighty dollar.  Maintaining access to foreign goods means that our government feels a need to exhaust our resources to "make nice" with other countries to help them with their strife--at the sacrifice of our own needs.  Sure there are some of the richest people on the planet here, but not all.  There are also a lot of severely impoverished as well.  We need to get our priorities straight as a nation.
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This country like any other has it's problems.  But America is like no other place in the world.  We have freedoms here that others can only dream about.  We have the will and strength to over come anything.  This country needs a strong moral center which it seems to be lacking on the west and east coasts.  There are the exceptions to that comment but most of the really liberal,(freedom w/o restrictions or consequences) crowd seem to live there.  I think we need to overhaul our social security system, our tax system and our education system.  If we take care of these basics then i believe we will be back at the top of the world in no time @ all.
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i will let you know something that a few usa citizens know,you are asking that from an usa perpective,because if you go around the world you will understand that in the usa the media is not bringing international information very well,so the most of the time you see everything thinking that the earth is spinning around only one country,big mistake,the opposite ,the usa needs of the rest of the world like the countries with a thought of freedom need the usa,right now bush is searching for support outside did you know that?like the leftist parties(communists) are winning more countries around the world?why?the politic of bush and the republicans,the world not, the usa, is moving into a change,i agreed about safety measurements but i do not agreed about the way that they are dealing with the inter. relations,they are losting friends countries.
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Multilaterialism is great when we can, however an elected governments first obligation is always to serve the best intrest of it's own people first. But name one instance when the US acted unilaterally we have always had at least some support from other countries. Vietnam is probably the closest you can get but even in that case we had some support from the rest of the world and the French basically created the mess.
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That comparison is dated. Americans have never followed even the noblest of ideals championed by our for fathers when they are against money matters. The USA is now the puppet master that pulls the strings of over half of the world. It didn't start with Iraq. We've been doing it for over 200 years now. And it's good that we have been too. If we didn't grab up the oportunities someone else would. Look at history. Every country that gets its interior problems sorted out turn to imperialism, even our civilized cousins the French, the Belgians, the Swiss, all of them. Would you rather someone else held the whip?
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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.
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Hey, it may be a good thing if there is another country out there that would support us once the USA is a third world nation due to the massive amount of people allowed or not allowed to migrate. After all we've supported everyone else for a very long time while our own citizens suffer from hunger and neglect so I suppose turn around would be fair. I'd like to sit on my a_s and have the 'good' working people of some far off land give me shelter, food and free medical care.
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That's good to hear, enough countries hate us already and to be honest, i dont ever think to myself " who doesnt like America" i instead think "who does like American". We are really hated thanks to our government when really Americans themselves (most) are very nice family people.
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The realities of the oil crunch and energy-hungry nations have forced many countries into a potential global conflict. We can't back away from it but we could limit it by producing alternative sources of power. While the US sanctions the war in Iraq (as a source of black gold),it condemns China for seeking the same in African countries...by peaceful means! The American government has been led by wealth over many years,and the current administration is not an exception. Perhaps we should require a different document....not of independence but a curriculum vitae of elected officials as well as proof of their financial dealings.
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The American government doesn't help half as much as they'd have you think they do.\n\nSome transnational businesses are in the habit of helping others, but only if there's a profit to be had.\n\nHelp isn't free, it always comes with a price.
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That is a good question.  If you look at American history you can see that from the Spanish American war to now, the US has no inhibitions against using military force to support its vested interests whether they are the United Fruit company in the Central American nations, colonial commerce in China, or suppressing resistance to American occupation in the Phillipines.  After WWII, under the doctrines of Cold War\nidiology there wasn't a year we were not engaged in undermining countries with political leaders we did not like\n( Domincan Republic, Chile, Indonesia, Congo,) or creating puppet governments and fomenting civil war, ( Vietnam ).\n\nAs an American I am NOT in support of these actions,\n\nDuring the Reagan Admin, the US supported dictators such as  Park, ( S Korea), Marcos, ( Phillipines ), Botha,( S.Africa), Pinochet, ( Chile), and others that oppressed their own citizens.  This was fine as long at they opposed communism. \n\nI don't doubt in this current crusade to maintain access to oil in the Middle East, we are behaving like the Roman Empire and supporting governments that support our aims, no matter how badly they treat their citizens. \n\nI don't think Americans in general support these actions.\nTo a great extent we are goverened by corporations, big business, idiology, short term economic policy and now, \nNEOCON doctrine, wars are inevitable and beyond our ability to prevent.\n\nIn earlier history, we had a civil war over soveignity and slavery as well an on ongoing genocide of the indigenious\ninhabitants. Americans execute more people than any other country in the world except for China.  We are a violent society.\n\n  When I travel abroad, I tell people I am a Canadian.
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Simple propaganda is my opinion along with jealousy.  WE are a generous nation and the world is so very Lucky that the USA has been the Superpower for so many years.  Sometimes I think the world wants us to stop evil but not to many other nations want to help so we look like were are med ling.  If we don't help, we're "ignoring the pain and suffering of others".  It's a catch 22 really.  I simply wish other countries would not just "back us" (a lot of our allies) but actually, physically HELP out!!
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What you are describing is called "Isolationism" in foreign policy.  In fact America spent most of its past existing in an isolationist condition.  It wasn't until after WW2 that we decided to change the way we do things.  Today we are a global empire.  There is a big price to pay for our position in the world, and I believe that is what you are driving at.  But the reality is; if you live in the big house you pay a big mortgage.\n\nYes a lot of our money goes out in aid to foreign countries.  But the reality is that these "gift" come back to us ten fold.  We pay our boys a little cut, but in exchange we get all kinds of great advantages; "secure" oil supplies, foreign products, big contracts for American companies, etc.  The reality is that we weren't the big powerful country that we are today until we started playing the game like they way we do now.\n\nAmerica controls 25% of the world’s economy while only representing 4-5% of the world’s population.  The only other empire in history that came close was the English Empire, and at their height only controlled 10% of the world economy.\n\nThe only power today that has a chance of surpassing our "success" is the European Union.  In fact the already make more money then we do.\n\nThe point is it is too late to go back.  We are stuck here.  We need the world (oil), and the world needs us (military). The clock turns in one direction.\n\nAs far as immigration goes, this problem is a symptom, not the source of the problem.  They come here because we are rich, and there is no stopping it.  We need them, who else would harvest our vegetables for 2 bucks an hour?  Maybe you would if we do what you propose.\n\nWhat you propose would make the Great depression look like a holiday.  The new illegal immigrant would be us trying to get into Canada or Europe, or maybe even Mexico!  Did you know that Mexico is the world’s tenth richest country? And this is the essence of the problem.  In Mexico the rich are very rich, and the poor are very poor.  There is a very small middle class.\n\nOne of the things that makes America so great is that there is a large middle class, not too rich, not too poor, just right.  But guess what, things are changing.  Our rich are very rich and wield great levels of power.  In fact they have so much influence that they can lower taxes on themselves (therefore getting richer) and put the extra weight on the middle class and the poor (therefore getting poorer).\n\nThe problem isn't the outside world, the problem is greed, and it is in each of us.  George Bush and his buddies are robbing the country dry right now and handing out goodies to all his old rich friends.  And they don't care about us. This isn't a conspiracy, it's just the way things are done in America, and it’s always been like that.\n\nIt isn't like we don't have enough to take care of all our problems; it is just that we have bad leadership.  A good leader makes sure all of the American children go to bed with full stomachs.  But instead our American children go to bed full of bullets!\n\nWhat we need to do is find a good leader and put him in the White House.
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How many reasons do you want?\n  - O I L\n  - Morality.  We're the richest/strongest. shouldn't we help others as well as ourselves?\n  - We want some of what they have (resources such as titanium, diamonds, etc. that are not found in the USA)\n  - To support friendly countries in areas where there are many UN-friendly countires\n  - etc, etc, etc.\nFact is that we are part of a world that technology keeps making smaller and smaller, and while isolationist policies may have helped us in the past, those policies have not worked since WWI and the beginning of the idustrial revolution.
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i've been thinking about this one alot lately.\nits fairly pointless...multi-national corporations don't seem to see borders, we are all just lumped into marketing research statistics.\n\nor to quote from the movie "network" -very worth watching by the way and despite its age still feels very current.\n"There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. "\n\n"There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars. The world is a business, it has been since man crawled out of the slime."\n\na large enough company gets around any border regulations just fine, but it sure hinders smaller ones, and individuals.  and though its way overused to point blame fingers at, look at haliburton, they have been doing business for years and years in countries like iraq, iran, and others that we have trade laws against, using loopholes and such in the laws.\n\nit does give people a very us or them mentality, keeps people in power, and can be generaly rather repressive, and its not like any of these people would just give up their positions.  can you immagine the cries of governments if they had to drop their borders....but this is MY COUNTRY!  but i think compassion for others would increase if they were dropped and we just started viewing everyone as in this together on one tiny world spinning around a sun, since we are much faster to help a neighbor, or a bordering county, or the next state, or others in our own country.  then as it radiates out we get more and more reluctant.
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I agree that there is too much of we're the bad guys syndrome going on in America. Compared to most countries outside the western world not only are we more economically well off, but have freedoms the majority of the world only dreams of. I hope that we can once again gain a sense of pride in not only who we are, but what we have achieved. In psychology not only can we project on the world, but also project upon ourselves. Let's try projecting something positive for a change.