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pewdiepie?

I wish, just a bro. :'c

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Nailed it.

i dunno but I'll thumb them back up xD

You could live in North Korea, Congo, or Sudan.

EH HEM', Fucking christian based nation. That is all.

Oh, I'm sorry. I guess living in one of the highest economic countries in the world with one of the smallest disease and hunger rates wasn't good enough for you. The government should sit you down and listen to everything you want so it's your way.

Everyone wants something different, the government can't just go change everything on a 51% vs 49% opinion every time, we would be in more debt than we are...

Quit your whining, if you have time to go on the internet instead of search for food, you're life in America is just fine.

my thoughts exactly, maybe we are a country of idiots if we can't be grateful for all the super nice things we have, I don't think the U.S.A is the best, but definitely better than some other places.

The government isn't supposed to change anything on a 51%-49% opinion. The Founders said the majority would lead us off a cliff, so there are no "simple majorities" in the government.

Actually, America has a a crazy high poverty rate. And worse education than many other developed countries.

Not saying the USA sucks to live in. But it's not the paradise that everyone thinks it is.

I think my education is pretty good. And yes, we do have a high poverty rate. Thanks to all the hardcore liberals who get off to the idea of spending money.

Hey man, don't drag politics in. That's not cool and totally uncalled for.

But since you brought it up, social programs that offer things like medical exams and temporary housing to homeless people is a good thing, and gives those people an opportunity to pull out of poverty. So I don't understand why you think the government spending money to help people makes them poorer...

And, people became the most poor after this economic crisis, which started near the end of a REPUBLICAN's term. Not pointing fingers, I'm just saying that liberals aren't the only ones you should blame for poverty.

The government is spending money we don't have. That's the problem. I say liberals because they are the ones who support federal spending on entitlements and stuff like housing for the poor to begin with.

The government spending money we don't have didn't actually start with the liberals. In fact, it started in the late 1700's with the introduction of Alexander Hamilton's financial plan. It's the way our government works, and yeah, it's not working right now.
But you know, another thing that really contributes to government overspending is the military. Our military is spending ridiculous amounts of money on stuff that we don't need. Entering the Iraq War (not a liberal's decision) cost us money. Even the EU thought that entering Iraq was a dumb idea.
Just, you know, throwing out some things that detract from the idea that liberals are the root of all the nation's problems. Things are more complicated than that.
BTW, I can understand where you're coming from, because the news does censor a lot of Americans' information, so you might not know what I'm talking about. So I thumbed up your post that had red thumbs :)

I never said they were the root of our problems.

"we do have a high poverty rate. Thanks to all the hardcore liberals who get off to the idea of spending money. "

>implying liberals were the ones who first started spending money.

But whatever. I feel this conversation is starting to go in circles

Probably. I'm sorry for any misconceptions. I was implying that liberals were PART of the problem, but I did not mean to say they were responsible for ALL of it.

Well then, it seems you are more reasonable than I thought. I suppose I could agree with you a little ^-^

For one of the most populous of the developed countries, it's pretty damn nice. Crazy high poverty rate? Probably guess we give so much of our own damn food and resources to places like Africa instead of helping ourselves, which annoys me.
Worse education? False, dumber people. Because of our higher standard of living, people tend to brush education aside and act like general dumbasses.

Second one is my opinion, but I agree with you for the most part.

We and the UK have the best colleges in the world. O-o;

Guess you're talking about grade schools though.

As far as education goes, while dumb ppl might be part of the problem, another thing is that public schools are funded based on the wealth of the sorrounding area. So inner city kids get worse schools than kids in rich areas. Also, Americans have shorter school years.
Another thing is that it's difficult in America to fire crappy teachers.

Don't know why I'm getting thumbed down. I love living in America. I'm just saying it's not perfect, just like any other place.

I'm not thumbing down, I just want to have a friendly conversation with you.

To be honest, I was born in a very poor area where I went to school from K-7th grade. The whole time I had all A's. I'm not a Junior with a 4.0 GPA in a "rich kid" school, I'm taking 2 AP classes, and I'm doing just fine. However, you're right. Alot of kids from my school ended up doing drugs and starting a steady decline to failure. I guess I left just in time when my dad got promoted to a manager position for his department.

But yeah, you're right. That's probably why African Americans are so far off, I'm going to "greentext" it to make it easier to explain:
>Africans enjoy end of slavery
>Very poor, shitty jobs
>End up in inner city areas together to help eachother eventually
>Areas have poor, jobless citizens
>Results in poor, low quality schools
>African Americans have insufficient education, end up stealing and commiting crimes or doing drugs to escape the pain of a "low life"
>African Americans now are apx. 17% of our population but commit apx. 75% of all crimes.

That's a very well constructed argument. Yeah, I currently live in a very affluent area and I rarely see poverty, so when I read articles about how much poorer black people tend to be, it shocks me. I do think there is a flaw in the system that hurts many black people.

I have had the opportunity to see differences in public schools though. I went to a middle school in a very poor area, and it was incredibly easy for me. I pulled straight A's with little to no effort at all. I felt like a genius. But my high school is in a much more affluent area, and I'm struggling to have A's and B's. Everybody takes AP classes, and the expectations are so much higher. I feel much less intelligent in this school.

I commend you for taking AP classes. They are such a pain.

I have a 95 and 93 average in mine right now, but I'll tell ya, I've worked harder in these two classes than all of my first 9 years of schooling combined.

Another quick story, in my elementary school, we couldn't afford a library (or air conditioning, or school lunches, ect) so we had to walk 1/2 a mile every thursday to the local library to pick from 6 shelves of books. Most popular was Gunisess world records book of 2003, and this was like 2006 or '07. :P

Wow, yeah, that sucks. The library thing.

And yeah, as far as AP classes go, I would put that much effort in them, but there are too many. I'm in AP Spanish, US History, English, Physics, and Chinese. Pretty much all of my classes. There's comes a time when you learn to be satisfied with a B, cuz you just don't have enough time for everything.

I couldn't do that... 2/3 of a prop for you sir, but that's too much for me. I still have to worry about my honors classes, what's your state GPA out of curiosity? In South Carolina, Mine's a 5.36 or so.

In my area, GPA is given to us on a 4.0 scale. I have a 3.7. I think when you apply to university they give you a boosted GPA if you were in honors/AP courses though. So I'm not 100% sure

anyone who throws words like "anarchist" "communist" and "socialist" around like flower petals at a wedding is a complete idiot.

>Person has a negative view on their government
>Instantly labeled "anarchist"
>Fuck you

When I feel racist, I come to the Internet!

Ikr? I wanna be able to go around spewing whatever racist slander I like.