Has America become the land of the special interest and home of the double standard?
Let’s see: If we lie to the Congress it’s a felony and if the Congress lies to us it’s just politics
Has this only happened recently? Hasn't it always been like that?
If we dislike a black person, we’re racist and if a black person dislikes whites it’s his First Amendment right.
No, it is fine to not like a black person. Just not fine to dislike blacks as a race.
I can understand why, given the history of your country that black people may not like white people. Two hundred years of slavery, and three hundred without equal civil rights will do that to you. Its too easy to say that the past is the past, now lets be friends.
The government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and does almost nothing for the victims
How does going to jail rehabilitate you? I thought it was supposed to be punishment?
In public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK but you’d better not use the word “God” in the process.
Now that's an over simplification isn't it? What happen if you use the word "God". (I'm just curious).
You can kill an unborn child, but it’s wrong to execute a mass murderer.
Abortion is a hotly debated issue, and generally the pro-life and pro-choice sides are about equal, however recently the trend is leaning towards pro-life. As far as I know there are guidelines to who can have an abortion. The laws aren't perfect but its hard to satisfy everyone.
Thirty six out of fifty states (72%) presently have the death penalty, so executing a mass murderer would depend on which state you lived in.
We don’t burn books in America — we now rewrite them.
I'm not a big fan of revising history but the ones I read in school growing up were mostly crap, and that was over forty years ago.
We got rid of the communist and socialist threat by renaming adherents “progressives.”
I guess you want another McCarthy back in your country?
We are unable to close our border with Mexico, but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea.
WTF?
Firstly, the Korean border is 155 miles. The U.S./Mexico border is 1969 miles - over
ten times longer. Plus, the
North Koreans do most of the work preventing anyone from crossing over.
If you protest against President Obama’s policies you’re a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy it was your First Amendment right.
Just not true.
You can have pornography on TV or the Internet, but you’d better not put a Nativity scene in a public park during Christmas.
Should porn be banned then?
I do agree that not being able to have a Nativity scene in a public park is silly. I also think it is totally unrelated to the porn issue.
We have eliminated all criminals in America — they are now called sick people.
No, I think they're still called criminals.
We can use a human fetus for medical research, but it’s wrong to use an animal.
Both points are debatable whether its proper or not. What is your opinion?
We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don’t want to work.
That will happen in some cases with Social Benefits, and probably always has - at least since 1935 since the Social Security act was enacted.
We all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology.
Oh come on! You really believe this?
We still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct.
PC is a strange disease indeed, but using an absolute like "only" is just wrong.
Parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games.
No it hasn't. Some parents are good, some are not. Some are really bad. Parenting today is a tough job especially with both parents working in most families.
I would agree that the ease in which Ritalin is handed out is not good. And video games tend to keep kids indoors too much. They should be out playing street hockey.
The land of opportunity is now the land of handouts.
I can't comment too much on this but maybe you can give me some good examples.
The similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.
From American news I get over here, I didn't think this was the case. That said, FEMA screwed up really bad in the first case, and BP oil in the second.
And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who’s at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises our taxes, and tells us the problem is solved so incumbents can get back to their reelection campaigns.
I don't know enough about American government to really comment on this one, but it sounds like the way politics work up here too...
What has happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Please tell me...
