How did our country get like this?

Question

How did our country get like this?

Answer 1

It's not our country, it's the dumb@sses trying to run it!

Answer 2

Political and corporate lobbyists donate large sums of money to the government in order to get their way. Government organizations (like the police force) and the mainstream media support this system.

Answer 3

Congress hasn't passed anything. This is because the Republicans keep filibustering everything. And the Democrats don't have enough votes in the Senate (60 votes) to override the Republican filibuster. The Republicans are just trying to show the Democratically controlled Congress as a "do nothing" Congress. But it's all because the Republicans won't let any bills be voted on.

Answer 4

Well U.S have always been a stringpulling country right? A persons entire success depends on how well connected he/she is.

Answer 5

200 plus years of the people who were here before you working very, very hard and many of them dying so you can live your cushy life today.

Answer 6

Amanda Look at the answers you are getting , There is your answer everyone blaming everyone else no one willing to take responsibility , How Did This Country Get like this ? Because "WE" Let it , we have become Sheep , we don't think for ourselves , We turn our backs on the very principals this Great Country was Founded on . No Nation has ever survived being Multi Cultural , We are Americans period , but to many want to be African American , Mexican American , Russian American , and so on and so forth , We need to come together as one Nation , United We Stand Divided We Fall .

You Have Freedom of Religion ..Unless your Christian . We Have Freedom Of Speech ..Unless you disagree with a Liberal . You Have a Right to Life , Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness .. Unless You are an Unborn Fetus .

We Make to many excuses for people , We say that Little johnny killed 5 people and stole a car because He didn't get a Bike for Christmas when he was 8 , Thats Bull Little Johnny is a Punk and did it cuz He took the easy way out and didn't have respect for no one . We Make Excuses for Blacks , " They are not as well Educated as Whites , Well Last time I checked The Black Kids I went to School with had the same Books and Teachers as I did . We Make Excuses for the Illegal Aliens in the U.S. , saying they do a job that Americans won't do...Not really true they do it for a wage no American will , I used to Be in the Construction Business , and a Brick Mason was Getting 200.00 a Thousand twenty years ago but the Illegals are laying brick for that now , How can they pay their workmans Comp on that... You Can't .

So Amanda , We have Done this to Ourselves , We Have Sold out or Country and Our Lives .

Answer 7

It has been suggested that "Nationalism" or "National Pride" is the single biggest disease to hit man kind.

There has not been a "just" or "appropriate" war in the past 200 years that wasnt caused by two countries Prides.

Answer 8

Bush

Answer 9

republicans.

Answer 10

I blame the Dems.

George Bush has been in office for 7 1/2 years. The first six the economy was fine.

A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high

2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon

3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%.

4) the DOW JONES hit a record high--14,000 +

5) American's were buying new cars, taking cruises, vacations o'seas, living large!...

But Americans wanted 'CHANGE'! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress... Change, all right!



1) Consumer confidence has plummeted

2) Gasoline is now over $4 a gallon & climbing!

3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);

4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 TRILLION DOLLARS & prices still dropping

5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure

6) as I write, THE DOW is probing another low - 11,300--$2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS!

Answer 11

Well if you are asking what I think you are asking is the fact that this country was founded by freedom and a government for the people, but it turns out that it has been overrun with corporations which are the ones who really run the government, thus the problem of having a small government.  The government needs to be the strongest of all in the country and it is not as conservatives break it down to have their way with decisions and selling out to lobbyists rather than actually caring about the people in general.  Don't get me wrong democrats are guilty also, just not as much as the republicans as they are FOR big business.  

Small spread out government is bad, do you remember what happen to Rome?  I fear we are headed on an economic path of a breakdown of our country from the outside, shipping our jobs overseas, other countries owning property, services, and tollways.  We are losing our country to the rest of the world and conservatives will continue to let it happen.

And then on top of that we pay other countries to invade other countries and try to deal with everyone else's problems rather than just deal with ours.  If we would stay out of the middle east and let them deal with each other, we would not have terrorists attacking or even caring about us, but because we stick our noses in everyone's business, it comes back on us.

I hope this answers your question.  

Answer 12

I love this country and after watching John Adams feeling very patriotic but if you think of what's been happening around the world, the war with Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the possible war with Russia...its spreading the American influence too thin and  Abraham Lincoln said it best when he said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand" and i really think that's the problem with the politics in America today.  

Global this and Global that but I do feel while that is important, if the next president doesn't make America his main focus things will continue as they have for the last 8 years.

or perhaps even its time for another country to take the reins so America can rebuild. Ever empire falls eventually. It happened to Rome, it happened to Great Britain - maybe now it's America's turn

Answer 13

How?

In moving backwards in time?

Sure

Why not?

With self lack of knowledge.

With unruly behaviour, self prides, self rudeness, self image of standing idol all over the land, self discrimination as people of different races of self racism in kicking the butts of God in niot worshipping God but idol worshiping the dead Mummy of failures and horrors of the past from the graveyards of different ghostly ancestor's culture and custom as cheap-skate glory and succes of National Identity in the Land of idol worshipper in own backyards.

In making a monkey out of own little ones, own children, own generation,own tribe,own community and children of all tribes of different community with self lack of knowledge without being aware of it getting kick on the butts by Father of a Rudeness Tribe with self lack of knowledge too back in the past in own backyards.

Who was dead and buried was long gone with time laughing in the grave at the bunch of educated idiots with self lack of knowledge too in time.

Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49

What do you think?

Answer 14

The Democratic and Republican parties still being in existence.  They literally should have been replaced 100 years ago.  My belief is that if you must have parties, they shouldn't have a lifespan of more than 50 years/two generations.