I know that everyone reading this loves America, so I’m not going to bore you with a paragraph on what a great country we live in. We all like to think that we live in the greatest country ever founded and that everyone else in the world either wants to be us, or surely they want to come here to live because after all their lives couldn’t be better in their home country than it would be in ours! Unfortunately for many people in the developed world nothing could be further from the truth. We aren’t being run over by people from Europe and Canada trying to move here to make a better life, people from the developed portions of Asia aren’t clamoring to move to the United States and if people from India and Pakistan all decided to move here we wouldn’t have nearly enough room to fit them all. Hell, many Americans are moving to places like Mexico, Belize and Panama so that they can take advantage of the cost of living and socialized medical care. I the last couple of years, people from Mexico and other countries south of the border are starting to realize that maybe they are better off back in Mexico or their own countries of origin and thus their leaving the America and going back home.
I know some of you by now are scratching your heads thinking what the hell is his point? Well my point is simply that as much as I love my country, unlike most American’s I realize that we don’t have the market cornered on democracy. There are democracies all over Europe and Asia and most of those people are not only happy to stay in their countries, they absolutely have no interest in coming to America. You see, in Europe, Asia, Russia and most other developed countries people are actually happy that their fellow citizens have systems in place to take care of the poor and disenfranchised. People in those countries have government sponsored health insurance and a social safety net. Yes, I know that people from many of these countries come to America for medical care, but those are wealthy people who have private health insurance. I hate to break it to you, but yes in all of those Socialist countries, the wealthy are able to purchase private health insurance and opt out of the state run health insurance system. I know of no case where an average citizen from any socialized country just up and decided to come to the US for health care unless it was a special case where you and I the American Taxpayer paid for it. You see in America if we see someone from a poor county who needs help, we’re front row center offering help, but god forbid that we offer help to people in our own country who need help, and that goes double if they don’t look like us or live where we live.
There are many ways in which our politicians are correct when they say that we are number one in the world, however there are many more areas where we aren’t even close. Let’s examine the facts:
America still has the world’s largest economy, we are the largest producers of firearms in the world and we also own more guns than people in any other country, we also have more debt than any other country in the world. America has the largest military in the world and the greatest scientific community in history. Yes, in these areas we’re #1.
Now let’s take a look at where we’re not so great:
We are currently the world’s 4th largest economy we’re rated as the 5th best country in which to run a business (bet that surprised some of you), our enrollment rate for elementary school children is 79th, our 15 year olds rank 19th in science and 24th in math skills. The US ranks 24th in Infrastructure and our infant mortality rate is 41st in the world, we rank 49th in life expectancy out of 70 countries (but don’t worry, we have the best health care system in the world!) and finally when it comes to determining if we’ll be better off than our parents, we rank 10th, people by my standards this does not make us exceptional!
My goal in writing this is not to denigrate my country, but rather to hopefully wake you up to spread the word that if we don’t wake up and take this country back from the idiots that we’ve elected to represent us, we could someday go the way of the Roman Empire. You must remember the Romans right? They were the biggest, baddest, meanest Mother F_____s on the planet back in the day, but they thought that they could rule the world by keeping the Emperor’s foot on the necks of the people and using their military might to conquer the rest of the world. It didn’t work for them, and it won’t work for us.
I submit to you that our political leaders have conned us into believing that if you have two dollars more than me or me two more than you we’re not in it together. If we live in different neighborhood, have different skin colors or religious beliefs, we’re not in it together and thus our interest aren’t the same so we have to be enemies and not worry about each other. It’s this kind of thinking that fostered genocide in places like Bosnia and parts of Africa in recent years and my worse fear is that this kind of thinking could destroy America!!!
History tells us that every great empire was not destroyed by its enemies, but rather from within, and there is no reason to believe that given the road we’re currently traveling that we will be the exception!
I’M JUST SAYIN