There must be something about Amerika we Can be Proud Of ... right?

2seaoat wrote:The United States is doing very well......despite this manufactured doomsday politics. You see America is investing in Wind, and beginning a new oil boom which may extract as much oil from old oil fields as what was originally removed. The new pressurized fracking has caused an explosion of new oil rigs which I have never seen in America in my 61 years.

Part of the negativity of the media, and particularly Fox is that special interests are pouring money into politics and media to change the direction of technology. Coal is losing its relative power as wind is becoming very profitable. I have investor friends who are pouring money into wind as new turbines are getting a two year ROI, and run maintence free for 20 years thereafter. The new oil rigs in America just have blown me away as a former Geology minor in college. What I am see as I travel the American heartland, is a country which is not failing, but a country about to explode with prosperity.

I have been stopping in casinos all across America to play poker as I traveled to AZ, and my observation is America is doing just fine.

Sal wrote:@Wordslinger

Could you please learn to use the quote function a little more efficiently, and/or change the color of or put your reply in bold.

I enjoy your comments and look forward to reading them, but when they are embedded in a long reply chain, I have a hard time finding them.

Just a friendly suggestion.

Thanks.

Wordslinger wrote:
Does this work better for you? Thanks for the suggestion! To tell the truth, I'm never sure where to put my response -- at the top before the comment I'm responding to, or after? This one is after. Let me know huh?

VectorMan wrote:I like America just fine.

I'm proud to be an American and citizen of the United States.

We're very popular and many, many people would love to live here.

CaptKaos, has a point.

Wordslinger wrote: name one industrialized nation in Europe whose people would rather live here.

Wordslinger wrote:

VectorMan wrote:I like America just fine.

I'm proud to be an American and citizen of the United States.

We're very popular and many, many people would love to live here.

CaptKaos, has a point.

Enlighten us with what makes you proud to be an American. And while you're at it, name one industrialized nation in Europe whose people would rather live here.

If you want to blow kisses to Captain Kaos ... be my guest. LOL

Bob wrote:

Wordslinger wrote: name one industrialized nation in Europe whose people would rather live here.

How about the UK? I understand some of those come over here to escape the high taxation. Would that count?

PkrBum wrote:Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy... perhaps you don't keep tabs on the eu? The American dollar and country used to be the stuff of dreams. Ever wonder what drove the unrest there? Or in the middle east? It wasn't ideological or religious... It was economic. Stagnant wages... high unemployment... sluggish economy... rising taxes... forced austerity... sound familiar?

We are a bit isolated and insulated and aren't feeling the full effects yet... but you would have to admit we will.

We are after all making the nearly identical decisions that lead to their current predicament... right?