Bashing the USA

While many of our brothers and sisters are fighting and dying to liberate other countries our families are suffering. Business’s are closing down. People are losing their jobs and homes. The economy has been drastically declining and getting worse. The money used to liberate these other countries would solve our problems. We sit here hoping things change but our borders are being infiltrated. We are vulnerable and week, in my opinion as week as the countries we are helping. America is a great country to everyone but itself.

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At the height of De Gaulle’s popularity as Prime Minister of France, the country was in a wave of new-found nationalism. De Gaulle himself contacted US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and informed him,”I want all American soldiers off our soil by the end of the year”. McNamara’s response: “even the ones that are buried there?”

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Thanks for the insite Roman. From a natural born Canadian and a naturalized American.

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wow. i like this one. its true though. thanks!

Roman, I too am a Canadian and proud of it. Did you hear the pin drop on our northern sovereignty?

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Thanks, Roman.

-- Doug, Reed City, Michigan

Roman, I too am a Canadian and proud of it. Did you hear the pin drop on our northern sovereignty?

I never said we’ld be willing to give that up, but I’ld be happy to share because we have neighbors who already set the example

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Again, thanks Roman.

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Roman, thanks. I too get very tired of hearing how bad the USA is when we’ve done so much for the world. I’d love to see how other countries fared if we

• Stopped keeping them free
• Stopped all foreign aid

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As a veteran of our latest war, I would like to thank you. In times like these it is good to hear that there are supporters of our Nation.

America’s weakness comes from the lack of support within. With that being said, thank you again.

-Don

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Roman, as a Native Born “American”, I say Thank you. As the Grandson of two fine Canadian Ladies, I am smiling, knowing that my relatives up north are still a part of my extended family. “Oh Canada, Glorious and Free”. May both of our Nations remain this way!

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I’m in agreement here too. But, having been grown in the U.S., I always thought we could take a few lessons from Canada.

Something that sticks in my mind (as an example) was the movie “Bowling for Columbine”, when Moore was grilling Charlton Heston (NRA). Moore was commenting on guns per capita. Canada has some outrageous number of guns per capita and a handful of murders by guns, whereas U.S. has a much lower ratio of guns per capita and a huge number of murders by guns.

Unfortunately Heston didn’t have much to say…and I thought…Well gee, If that’s the case then it doesn’t sound to me like guns are the problem, the people who have them are.

We recently had a murder locally. 13 yrs old and 16 yrs old. One shot in the head, dead. The other shot and had her throat slit, but she survived to identify the culprits. They are trying to decide on whether to put the 16 yr old on trial as an adult or not. I don’t know what they will do with the 13 yr old. The people they assaulted were something like in their 70’s or older. (it’s cases like this that make me want to include the parents in the trial.)

I’m still trying to figure out how to make the U.S. better. (btw, I have 6 firearms not including the cross-pistol and BB gun and am grateful I can have them, for perspective.)

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Nice one! Regardless of what the politicians do, I am proud to be an American. I was in England many years ago touring with a friends band as a technician, and I got into several arguments with Frenchmen mostly, some Englishmen about how terrible America is and how obnoxious our people are and how corrupt our government is. I always brought up the fact that if it wasn’t for our involvement in WW2, they would all be speaking German right now. It almost always shut everyone up and got me in a few scuffles to boot, but I didn’t care…well maybe it was more the fact that I would point out that the French rolled over like a rock when the Germans basically marched right into Paris and took over the place. The lend lease act supplied the English with almost all their fighting supplies years before we got actually involved in the war. Some people would like to forget history because they don’t like the truth…but I say a loud and proud thank you to any military serviceman who fought in WW2, or any war for that matter. Oh, and if you ever go to England, don’t ask anyone who is the “old Bag” that is on their money..they get a little testy !

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I think Don (above) hit the nail on the head. Our biggest weakness comes from lack of support from within. I don’t think that the majority of the younger generations (mine included) know how to “dig deep” and sacrifice, to pull in their neighborhood to work for the greater good of their community and the nation.

My Great Grandmother, Grandfather, and Grandmother used to tell me stories of WWII and the Great Depression. My Great Grandmother had five boys and two girls in the Great Depression. My Grandfather said that he was about 13 when the Great Depression hit, the same year when my Great Grandfather died in the mines. My Great Grandmother was left a single mom in her late 30’s to raise 7 kids, uneducated, no work. My Grandfather used to say that the boys went out to hunt rabbits with sharp sticks, and they fished in all kinds of weather. If they didn’t catch something, they didn’t eat. No car, no insurance, no town Dr, collecting sticks to burn in the wood stove, no livestock. I sometimes even wonder if my Great Grandmother knew the definition of the word selfish or self centered, because she sacrificed everything she had, which was very little- yet she would have given her blankets to a neighbor.

My point is, I think the lack of support that Americans give this country is directly related to this “Me” mentality that is so popular in today’s younger generations. We (generally) really don’t have any idea what it’s like to have to go through that kind of living. I think that sometimes the selfishness clouds and taints our view of this country.

Thanks, Roman, for your thoughts.

Steve

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Roman,

Your words and thoughts should make all Canadians proud…................I know I am.
Thank You.

All the best
Gord

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