Quote Originally Posted by MaximilianMayrhofer
You americans are absurdly proud of your so called 'better way of life'. Statistically, 1 in every 4 americans is morbidly obese, while 1 in 3 falls within the obese weight range. The only reason that you haven't entered another great depression is that your creditors haven't asked you to pay back your loans in a currency you can't print. Your culture is second only to japan in its xenophobia, which is of course ridiculous because america isn't old enough for the world to forget that every one of your ancestors is a genocidal immigrant (and by that I mean that they killed the only REAL americans, the native americans). Your health system is actually pretty terrible, compared even to Cuba.
I would agree with that, except for a couple of details:
1. i AM native american. If you are referring to white people, they make up only 40% of the population.
2. who came up with the xenophobia statistic? I am sure if you dig deeper you will see that we have more immigrants than you do.
3. I was comparing our way of life to Cuba's, not the rest of the world. I personally would prefer to live in Japan.
4. Cuba actually has one of the best public health systems in the world.
5. If you haven't experienced our health system, don't knock it. I've been hospitalized three times. It's a HELL of a lot better than it used to be. When i was a child, they didn't have to accept you in hospitals when you didn't have insurance and my brother died of pneumonia. Today, they are required to. If it wasn't for this fact, both I and my wife would be dead. I had pneumonia as well, and my wife had a cyst on her ovary when she was 15.

You are of course entirely accurate about the creditor thing. Everyone knows it but we can't seem to get Congress to stop their @#$#@ spending. Our current president took over when we actually had a surplus. It took him about a month to turn that into a $500,000,000,000 defecit. Later he dropped that by about 1/2 and touted his ability to "cut spending". Bush's biggest problem isn't that he's stupid. It's that he thinks everyone else is.