Is it just me or does America feels more and more like a third world country?

Question

Is it just me or does America feels more and more like a third world country?

Answer 1

its just you. have you been to a third world country? if you have then your on crack, because america is so much nicer then countries where every child is starving and their parents have died of aids and they must bow down to the government and there are riots because you can work for a full day and barely buy one meal. seroiusly? is this a serious question? please...this is almost insulting. go on a mission trip or something and then try to complain.

Answer 2

this is what that guy meant when he said we're a nation of whiners.

Answer 3

I've been to about 80 countries and conclude that Gordon is absolutely correct. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Answer 4

its not, but we will see a lot more poverty if our country doesnt get back up on it's feet.  many are losing jobs and paying more for everything.  

Just thank Bush for our economy

Answer 5

Yes. Reading through all the medical questions I realise that there are a lot of people out there who cant even go to the dr or hospital for serious problems. Im from NZ and it costs us $20US to go to the dr (kids are free) and hospital treatment is free too. I really feel for you guys it seems a lot of people get lost in the system.

Answer 6

No it's not just you, america has no idea,

of what's waiting in the wings for them and

even less, of whos behind it all . . .

Or as Jack Nicholson so eliquently put it . . .

" We Couldn't Handle The Truth " . . .

Answer 7

Really funny responses here. I've been all over the world and can tell you that it's not just you who feels this way. The responses you're getting are from excessive patriotic fanatics who really haven't been anywhere with the exception of perhaps a third world country. However, comparing the USA to third world countries is like comparing apples to oranges. When comparing the States to other "first world" countries - yes we do seem to be more like a third world nation. By the way - to the guy who claimed that we're the richest.... please do your homework because we are certainly not. That country would be Luxembourg. We happen to be the 6th richest but unfortunately have the biggest egos.

*** You simply cannot compare the United States with Mexico, Cuba or Afghanistan! And- why do so many of you take offense to this question??? It's just a question - frankly a legitimate one. Compared to places like Hong kong, Switzerland etc... yeah, - we do look kinda third worldish. Have you ever noticed the amount of homeless people in the States? I live in Boca Raton, Florida which is certainly not a ghetto - yet it seems like there are more and more people begging for money on street corners. Others have to have 2 or 3 jobs and still cannot make a living. Sorry - but on my many travels, I simply do not see this kind of stuff in other - again - first world comparison countries. Man - look at Hong Kong! I've never seen so many Rolls Royces and other expensive cars in one place like over there! Wake up everyone!

Answer 8

We are a third world Country because our citizens are starving,losing their homes,their jobs and all the programs are for the people coming across our borders. We foot the bill for them and our Government gives us c**p.My husband lost his job of 25 yrs due to the car industry and NAFTA. I'm sick and neither one of us can get anything. He can collect a unemployment check for 26 weeks and then he is on his own. We have no insurance,4 kids and the state says he makes to much money for assistance for us at 180.00 a week for a family of 6. I can fight for disability but of course i will be denied 2-3 times and forced to get a lawyer which the whole process will take 2-3 years and you still don't know if you Qualify? But jump that fence or C'mon over and claim political asylum and see the benefits you will get,with our money.

Answer 9

Have the people who answered this question been to a third world country?

In a third world country there is a huge separation between rich and poor.  There is almost no middle class.  In this way  yes America is becoming more and more like a third world country.

In a third world country they are lacking many of the basic necessities,

in that way America is not becoming more and more like a third world country.

So in answer to your question in some ways yes America is becoming like a third world country but in most ways no America is not becoming more and more like a third world country.

Answer 10

I think you need to go and live in a third world country and then re evaluate you jerk!!!

Answer 11

I think it is just you.

Answer 12

your a not knowing **** i hope you ever see a real third world country and see how wrong you are  

Answer 13

Well with the influx of immigrants and the low standards that they have, yes

Answer 14

its just YOU

Answer 15

it's you

Answer 16

Well, I guess it would depend on where you live first of all.  I can feel the economic strain, as most people I know...but I think you'd really have to see a third world country to know that the U.S. is nothing like one...but there are parts of the U.S. that many people have not seen that are extremely poor and cannot even comprehend what you're saying.  Keep your chin up and hopefully things will get better soon.

Answer 17

you've clearly never been to a third world country.

pull your d**k out of your ***.

Answer 18

No way man..., I have been around the world (over 50 countries, and all continent), many countries are richer than america, BUT america has the highest living standard than anywhere else in the world.

Answer 19

Have you ever been to a third world country you idiot?

Answer 20

just u we're like the richest in the world

Answer 21

you know i moved to this great country around 8 years ago  and I'm getting sick and tired of people (who have never left it or if they hate it so much should leave it) bash the US. When I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Well who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's who.

They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan, and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there -- I saw that (maybe not back then). When distant cities are hit by earthquake, it is the United States that hurries into help, Managua, Nicaragua, is one of the most recent examples.

So far this spring, fifty-nine American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

The Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy, all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans.

Now, I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.

Come on now, you, let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a women on the moon?

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times, and, safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They're right there in the streets of Toronto. Most of them, unless they're breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.

When the Americans get out of this bind -- as they will -- who could blame them if they said "the h**l with the rest of the world." Let somebody else buy the Israel bonds. Let somebody else build or repair foreign dams, or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes." When the railways of France, and Germany, and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of 'em are still broke.

I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

My Americans have faced it alone, and I am one person who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They'll come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they're entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.

Answer 22

I would say the other way around. We depend a lot on other countries but our quality of life is in the top of all charts

Answer 23

No. We have the privileges of food,clean water,education, etc that third world countries don't.

Answer 24

If you've the slightest empathy for an actual third-world country or continent, you will actually feel quite kingly and luxurious.  

Answer 25

it is just you. thank god!!!

Answer 26

Well, not really. Have you ever been to a third world country??

But, if you're talking about there being a very pronounced really rich population and a very pronounced very poor population, I understand what you're asking.

Answer 27

Travel buddy.  Have you been to a third world country?

No, it's just you.

Answer 28

It might probably seem like it...to you.

Third world countries -- not like America.

Answer 29

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Answer 30

It's just you. try living in a third world country for a while, you'll change your mind and stop wallowing.

Answer 31

Do you have any idea what a 3rd world country is?

OH plz, thank God that we don't have that problem, so plz do some research and see how other ppl live, then you will know the answer

it's you!