Re: NoBama? GoBama?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:15 pm
The reason the general population living in America has high standards of living is that America has been managed rather shitty since the colonials severed from Britain for independence. Instead of setting long-term goals, about 95% of all governmental officials, no matter what position they held, only planned for the present or maybe a year, two, or five into the future. It's like a race- if you waste all your energy (in this case, metaphorically representing resources) in a sprint, you're going to start to slow down (the great depression.) Then maybe, after a tiny rest, you'll start trying to sprint again, and you'll have these little dips in between (periods of rescission in between the 20th/21st centuries), and then finally start to slow down for good. As the independent United States of America has been around for not even a whole three centuries, it's a relatively new country, like much of the western hemisphere.
But I digress; instead of focusing on important ideals of life and advancements in various aspects of education, technology, government, and the ilk, much of the money and resources available to America have been blown off on countless products and projects that end up completely useless and/or unnecessary.
As for WWII; the bulk of the allies were from the USSR, France, and Britain, along with many smaller European countries that weren't under the control of Axis forces(Italy, Poland, Germany, and I think a few others I'm missing were under control of the Axis). Americans only came in a little later- they originally didn't even want to get involved. Then when a few Japanese suicide bombers attacked Pearl Harbor, they had to retaliate. This came in the form of entering the war and later on the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Admittedly, D-Day was a major contribution from the US, though it was a full-scale invasion that involved all of the allies, and Nagasaki/Hiroshima didn't have any sort of impact on WWII; true that it ended the Pacific war, but the sheer excessive firepower killed over 220,000 people on August 6th and 9th, the overwhelming majority of which were civilians, a good chunk of them who probably wouldn't have fought for Japan anyways. Not the proudest moment in American history, even if it had to be done.
Obama might prove to be a nice change for the office, though. His campaign certainly seemed promising, but realistically, there's a fear that all or most of those promises might end up unfulfilled.
[By the way Starzz, your defense kind of failed. You basically repeated what Ren said and went "No" or something sarcastically.]
But I digress; instead of focusing on important ideals of life and advancements in various aspects of education, technology, government, and the ilk, much of the money and resources available to America have been blown off on countless products and projects that end up completely useless and/or unnecessary.
As for WWII; the bulk of the allies were from the USSR, France, and Britain, along with many smaller European countries that weren't under the control of Axis forces(Italy, Poland, Germany, and I think a few others I'm missing were under control of the Axis). Americans only came in a little later- they originally didn't even want to get involved. Then when a few Japanese suicide bombers attacked Pearl Harbor, they had to retaliate. This came in the form of entering the war and later on the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Admittedly, D-Day was a major contribution from the US, though it was a full-scale invasion that involved all of the allies, and Nagasaki/Hiroshima didn't have any sort of impact on WWII; true that it ended the Pacific war, but the sheer excessive firepower killed over 220,000 people on August 6th and 9th, the overwhelming majority of which were civilians, a good chunk of them who probably wouldn't have fought for Japan anyways. Not the proudest moment in American history, even if it had to be done.
Obama might prove to be a nice change for the office, though. His campaign certainly seemed promising, but realistically, there's a fear that all or most of those promises might end up unfulfilled.
[By the way Starzz, your defense kind of failed. You basically repeated what Ren said and went "No" or something sarcastically.]