I don’t think you were mindlessly preaching either, you were offering objective viewpoints.

I think I spoke the truth for most Americans, even if my view is subjective. Subjective views can still be true, who is closer to the source than someone inside it, someone who lives it?

I understand a lot of countries and peoples have their own problems. It seems as though they think everyone in America is hunky-dory, 1950’s, Leave it to Beaver brainwashed Pleasantville residents. I was simply trying to show what the world sees on television is not the way it is.

I have friends in Slavic countries that think America is a shining land of the rich, happy, powerful. I’m sure to them it is. Pay is very poor where they live, which is why they’ve produced some very great punk bands.

As for my position, it has nothing to do with mindless preaching. I, plain and simple, just don’t like hearing insincere or otherwise inaccurate comments from people who either don’t pause to see how subjective and personal their judgment is, or, which is much worse, consciously choose to express their biased views without any regard to objective reasoning. No matter where your personal affinities lie, you have to try and get rid of your bias when making a logical argument. Otherwise the person who doesn’t share your view of the world will have no reason to listen to what you have to say.

The real shame about America that the rest of the world never gets to see, is that most of us are the working poor.
For every businessman there are 50 working class people.
And it’s hard to move up in this country.

I’ve worked 122 hours in the past two weeks for a measly $850, and my pay is above minimum wage. Living costs are extremely high here. Our rent is $550, and if you don’t want to eat unhealthy Aldi’s crap food in a can, you’ll end up spending $350 a month on fresh foods.

Then there’s gas. I’m sure the rest of the world thinks we don’t need gas to get to work, just ride a bike, or walk, like they do. America is a very big country, with sprawling cities, and few people live within a reasonable distance to hoof it to work.

Most Americans, educated or not, don’t care about the news, politics, celebrities. All we want to do is take care of our families the best we can, just like everyone else in the world.

So when you say America sucks, well, it does. But not for the reasons you think. Unlike Germany, France, or the UK our mothers receive no federal maternity leave. We do without. Health care is impossible to afford. Debt is easy to come by and hard to get rid of.

Get your minds out of the small percentage of corporate persons who decide what to put on the news, and remember there are real people in a struggle here. Just like everywhere else.

But this waht makes me think she is getting screwed and everybody ignores that the computer in question was a Microsoft Windows 98 machine running an outdated version of Internet Explorer Web browser (IE 5.0), or that the school’s license for its firewall program expired prior to the date of the alleged incident. Likewise, the machine’s anti-virus software (Cheyenne Software) was expired and it lacked any anti-spyware tools. In short, the Windows 98 computer was completely exposed to the Internet without any kind of protection

usa sucks

Honestly, what parent hasn’t at one time or another had this happen in the privacy of their own home while a child was present; scares the crap out of you but it doesn’t make you a pervert or mean you intended to show them this. Ok enough of a rant but honestly my true hatred for the legal system is that, well, like the famous quote “better 100 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man be incarcerated”, bs, how it really goes is “guilty until proven innocent”. I don’t hate cops because they abuse their power and treat everyone like criminals, i hate them because they represent a bs system of laws that no longer keep the innocent free but instead treat us all like equal criminals and make you worry bout your “freedom”.

Its from the movie, Borat..