Crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, a student population held to ransom with loan debt, staggering unemployment, out-of-control health care costs, a failed democracy, ruled by an oligarchical elite. Wars in foreign countries with no end, bleeding lives and money out of the economy.
In the last 2'000 days there have been almost as many mass shootings. Are these the throes of an empire imploding?
OnlyLiveTwice: Crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, a student population held to ransom with loan debt, staggering unemployment, out-of-control health care costs, a failed democracy, ruled by an oligarchical elite. Wars in foreign countries with no end, bleeding lives and money out of the economy.
In the last 2'000 days there have been almost as many mass shootings. Are these the throes of an empire imploding?
What went wrong America?
On the other hand, if you listen to North Korea's news, you will hear the paradise ever existed under the great leader. Go figure.
greed, the wealthy making money by killing people...in recent days the American government murdered a number of people near an international airport in another country, because the president and a fat slob wanted to kill someone. What is so complicated about that?
Yes America is imploding, today on our TV news story about jewish people in New York on mass arming themselves with automatic weapons. Government hasn't sorted $US75 trillion derivatives floating about nor the $US23 trillion debit it owes, whole country don't understand that violence leads to more violence. Religion is always problematic just as it is in other countries and that has great deal to do with its internal woes America's church shootings: At least 91 killed since 1999
And like you mentioned war after war, idiots right around the glob supporting violence, most of it lead by America. But not all religion, hatred and greed driven by self interests been round since adam was a cowboy
Of all who have posted Crap about the USA......Get the Facts, before you speak...
Population of all who talk Crap...
329,256,480.................................USA
023,470,144.................................Australia 065,105,248.................................England 000,449,003.................................Malta 089,024,395 this is the total of all 3 countries talking crap
So the Fact is that the USA has 3 1/2 Time the population, of all 3 of your Countries totaled together...
Maybe we have a reason for having a higher crime rate...Just Maybe...
and since Iran has been a recent Topic, I will add their Population separately 089,024,744...................................Iran We have 3 1/2 time the population of Iran
Go Talk Crap to someone else.... Laughing Stock Here is the link, so you see where I get my numbers from
"Go Talk Crap to someone else"......Larry, that's a rather knee-jerk emotional reaction. What was 'crap' about the OP? I never made any mention of population numbers, but rather all those things related to income disparity. Poverty of the working poor. Let's talk about that?
OnlyLiveTwice: Crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, a student population held to ransom with loan debt, staggering unemployment, out-of-control health care costs, a failed democracy, ruled by an oligarchical elite. Wars in foreign countries with no end, bleeding lives and money out of the economy.
In the last 2'000 days there have been almost as many mass shootings. Are these the throes of an empire imploding?
What went wrong America?
There is where you said population, You said Imploding What went wrong with America...
I already did the math for you.... America is standing strong.... I won't draw you a map... Do your own homework, instead of having me do it...
HotrodLarrys: There is where you said population, You said Imploding What went wrong with America...
I already did the math for you.... America is standing strong.... I won't draw you a map... Do your own homework, instead of having me do it...
America is standing strong? You have an opioid crisis, a homelessness crisis, the income disparity is the highest in the world, and you've lost every war you have fought since WW2. The United States has the largest external debt in the world, something like $24 trillion. The moment the US dollar ceases to be the world currency, which is a certainty, the country will plunge into chaos.
By the 1970's America had shifted from an empire of production, to an empire of consumption. Ie you began to borrow to maintain a lifestyle that you could no longer afford. Sheldon Wolin (Politics and Vision) probably America's greatest economic philosopher of the 20th century, refers to the current system as, not a democracy, but as 'inverted totalitarianism. By that he means the corporations have taken over control of the country, in fact, the world. In this dystopia, everything, including people, is considered a commodity, including the environment.
OnlyLiveTwice: America is standing strong? You have an opioid crisis, a homelessness crisis, the income disparity is the highest in the world, and you've lost every war you have fought since WW2. The United States has the largest external debt in the world, something like $24 trillion. The moment the US dollar ceases to be the world currency, which is a certainty, the country will plunge into chaos.
Yes, I have done a bit of homework.
Maybe you should do some more homework,...Yes we are in Debt from bailing all the other Countries out of their own Crisis...
Your Thread topic is about Nihilism in America...Nihilism Definition is Morals.. We have Morals, and we also have Intelligence....
So just to be a nice guy I will prove you wrong again...With Proof of course...This is the last Homework I will do for you and the last I will post, because it is not worth wasting my time helping you look silly... You say the USA has the Highest Debt in the World... USA is # 8 in the World...
Japan Here are the countries with the most debt on the books: Japan and Greece are the most indebted countries in the world, with debt-to-GDP ratios of 237.6% and 181.8% respectively. Meanwhile, the United States sits in the #8 spot with a 105.2% ratio, and recent Treasury estimates putting the national debt at $22 trillion.Jan 14, 2019 This is what government debt looks like across the globe | World ...
HotrodLarrys: Maybe you should do some more homework,...Yes we are in Debt from bailing all the other Countries out of their own Crisis...
Your Thread topic is about Nihilism in America...Nihilism Definition is Morals.. We have Morals, and we also have Intelligence....
So just to be a nice guy I will prove you wrong again...With Proof of course...This is the last Homework I will do for you and the last I will post, because it is not worth wasting my time helping you look silly... You say the USA has the Highest Debt in the World... USA is # 8 in the World...
Japan Here are the countries with the most debt on the books: Japan and Greece are the most indebted countries in the world, with debt-to-GDP ratios of 237.6% and 181.8% respectively. Meanwhile, the United States sits in the #8 spot with a 105.2% ratio, and recent Treasury estimates putting the national debt at $22 trillion.Jan 14, 2019 This is what government debt looks like across the globe | World ...
I think I have proved my point... I am done posting on this thread...
Desperately copying/pasting Larry? You haven't addressed a single issue in my original post. Ok, I know you googled 'nihilism' good for you. But you misunderstood the context in which it was used. But hey, if you want to bury your head in the sand, and think everything USA is fine n' dandy, go ahead.
OnlyLiveTwice: Crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, a student population held to ransom with loan debt, staggering unemployment, out-of-control health care costs, a failed democracy, ruled by an oligarchical elite. Wars in foreign countries with no end, bleeding lives and money out of the economy.
In the last 2'000 days there have been almost as many mass shootings. Are these the throes of an empire imploding?
What went wrong America?
with the knights of maltas help to dump trump n queens reptile family n NWO/THE FED by sir rothchilds,etc.take guess then nutty nancy help for commies,hm.
OnlyLiveTwice: Crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, a student population held to ransom with loan debt, staggering unemployment, out-of-control health care costs, a failed democracy, ruled by an oligarchical elite. Wars in foreign countries with no end, bleeding lives and money out of the economy.
In the last 2'000 days there have been almost as many mass shootings. Are these the throes of an empire imploding?
What went wrong America?
Depends on where you get your news.....
Congress needs to step up and deal with some brewing issues - how the NRA controls gun legislation, that corporations are considered individuals, and universal healthcare.....
Also, what should be on the agenda, addressing technology and social media, protections and security...
America is not a failed democracy, it is a very much working democracy. To generalize is to perish.
JeanKimberley: Depends on where you get your news.... America is not a failed democracy, it is a very much working democracy. To generalize is to perish.
I agree with you. We are what we read. Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges and Robert Reich seem to believe that corporations thru their Super Pacs own and dictate to the US goverment. That may or not be true, but as leading luminaries on America, you may be more swayed by their arguments than mine.
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Wars in foreign countries with no end, bleeding lives and money out of the economy.
In the last 2'000 days there have been almost as many mass shootings. Are these the throes of an empire imploding?
What went wrong America?