Why do so many people bash the USA?

[Flare]

~Grins~ First time posting on the OT forum. ~bows~

OK. What gives? Are we Americans that bad? Why is there so much American bashing going on? Can't anybody say anything nice about us? ~Grins~ Yes, the USA does meddle a lot, but I personally think that without our tax dollars or assistance, the world would be a poorer place? Would the bashers want us to pull back into ourselves and become isolationists again? ~WEG~ If so, I am sure that the tax dollars & support could be very useful here. ~Winks~
Ok, flame away!

Thanks for responding.
Kevin

[chequita guevara]

DL!

[Drake Tungsten]

Why do so many people bash the USA?

Maybe it's because they don't like us...

edit:

Thanks for responding.
Kevin

I think he may be Jon Miller's DL.

[Anodyne]

Why do people bash USA?
Well, you're the best target, really. The most powerful nation of earth. It's much more fun to bash you than... Switzerland, or Hungary, for example.

...and besides, you suck

[alofatti]

"Yes, the USA does meddle a lot, but I personally think that without our tax dollars or assistance, the world would be a poorer place?"

Too bad they aren´t exactly "assistance" but rather they are loans which are now used to extort poor countries.
If you really want to assist poor countries, then banish your trade barriers and stop subsidizing agricultural producers. Stop being hypocritical about "free trade"!!

[red_jon]

I'm getting sick of these threads now.


Oh, and DL!

[Velociryx]

Ohhhh no, Flare! You see....it's perfectly acceptable for folks in other countries to keep their hands out for that dollar (erm...make that tens and hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars) while bashing the USofA in the same breath. If *we* bash tho, we're being unsensitive and egalitarian, or....just plain red-necky, depending on who you talk to. They like takin' that money, but they want it with no strings....a gift, cos, you know, they're so much better than we are....we should be *grateful* that they worked so hard to build our nation up to the point that it is.

But there's no double standard in place or anything....

-=Vel=-

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by alofatti
Too bad they aren´t exactly "assistance" but rather they are loans which are now used to extort poor countries.

I'm getting sick of Argentina blaming others for thier own incompetence.

[red_jon]

Originally posted by Velociryx
Ohhhh no, Flare! You see....it's perfectly acceptable for folks in other countries to keep their hands out for that dollar (erm...make that tens and hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars) while bashing the USofA in the same breath. If *we* bash tho, we're being unsensitive and egalitarian, or....just plain red-necky, depending on who you talk to. They like takin' that money, but they want it with no strings....a gift, cos, you know, they're so much better than we are....we should be *grateful* that they worked so hard to build our nation up to the point that it is.

But there's no double standard in place or anything....

-=Vel=-

But the mods are on your side

[Velociryx]

Hey now....I took the "America sucks" position in another thread....must have balance...

-=Vel=-

[Capt Dizle]

When the people here stop bashing America it will be time to worry. Envy is 98% of it.

Vel, you have been so crazily bashing America yourself that I am having a hard time counting your opinion seriously. Without proof you feed the fire of these wild conspiracies. What you smoking up there?

[red_jon]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
When the people here stop bashing America it will be time to worry. Envy is 98% of it.

Vel, you have been so crazily bashing America yourself that I am having a hard time counting your opinion seriously. Without proof you feed the fire of these wild conspiracies. What you smoking up there?

Coming from YOU?!

[Velociryx]

No worries JT....I promise I won't smoke anything tooooo noteworthy without inviting you to join in!

Ahhh....mostly it amounts to letting off creative steam....I've been bottled up for an extended period, workin' on Candle'Bre stuff....just had to break out for a while....

-=Vel=-

EDIT: Hmmm....we're due to head to Saluda again soon for a weekend jam in the mountains....cookout, smokin' on the deck.....yeah....

[Rogan Josh]

No-one on these forums bashes the US. They just make constructive criticism about the US govt.

The only problem is that the Americans on these boards don't take criticism well.....

[GePap]

For the same reasons we (the US) bash the French....