Post by Freydis The Valkyrie on Apr 1, 2010 14:48:56 GMT -5
Ralph Hayes Junior: The ultimate Ugly American.
As a military power, our armed forces are larger than the next three nations combined. The nations of the world can be divided into three camps: those we defeated, those we bailed out, and those who we haven't got around to ass-kicking yet.
As an economic power, same story. The standard of living in our lowest economic rung is better than the upper middle class of our closest rivals. We have more self-made millionaires in our country than some countries have PEOPLE. Our annual charitable contributions--- aid both foreign and domestic--- bypasses most other nations' GDP.
When we were a colony, we kicked the ass of the most powerful merchant-military state on the planet.
Technologically---- In less than two centuries we went from the ox and wagon to the SPACE SHUTTLE. The computer, the internet, the airplane, the atom bomb, the assembly line, rock and roll, the jawbreaker--- all ours. We put bootprints on the moon and tire tracks on Mars. We crack out more scientific and medical advances in a year than Europe pulls out of its backside in a decade.
It was OUR representative, constitutional government that contributed the greatest change to the world. If there are countless other free countries in the world it's because we led the way. BS all you like, but the people of the world crying for freedom KNOW better..... In the tragic grasp for freedom of Tianenmen Square, the protesting students didn't rally around a scale model of Big Ben or the Eiffel Tower, but around a plaster model of the Statue of Liberty. And the homemade rafts in the Gulf of Mexico are all going one direction.
It was AMERICA that turned WWII around, it was AMERICA that kicked in the door to Saddam's political prisons and rape rooms and who toppled his throne, it was AMERICA that gave Iraqis the vote for the first time in decades and Afghan women the vote for the first time in recorded human history.... while the French and Germans and Belgians and their ilk were sitting around whinging and crying-- and selling Saddam guns and bombs under the table. We kicked Hitler's bony ass and gambled Stalin out of his shorts.
And our nation may be going through dire troubles now.... it may even be in its final decline, unless divine Providence intervenes.... But even at half our size and a third our strength we're STILL the leader of the pack. And the only reason we're IN a crisis in the first place is because the spoiled whiny idiots who greased their way into power want America to be more like EUROPE.
As an economic power, same story. The standard of living in our lowest economic rung is better than the upper middle class of our closest rivals. We have more self-made millionaires in our country than some countries have PEOPLE. Our annual charitable contributions--- aid both foreign and domestic--- bypasses most other nations' GDP.
When we were a colony, we kicked the ass of the most powerful merchant-military state on the planet.
Technologically---- In less than two centuries we went from the ox and wagon to the SPACE SHUTTLE. The computer, the internet, the airplane, the atom bomb, the assembly line, rock and roll, the jawbreaker--- all ours. We put bootprints on the moon and tire tracks on Mars. We crack out more scientific and medical advances in a year than Europe pulls out of its backside in a decade.
It was OUR representative, constitutional government that contributed the greatest change to the world. If there are countless other free countries in the world it's because we led the way. BS all you like, but the people of the world crying for freedom KNOW better..... In the tragic grasp for freedom of Tianenmen Square, the protesting students didn't rally around a scale model of Big Ben or the Eiffel Tower, but around a plaster model of the Statue of Liberty. And the homemade rafts in the Gulf of Mexico are all going one direction.
It was AMERICA that turned WWII around, it was AMERICA that kicked in the door to Saddam's political prisons and rape rooms and who toppled his throne, it was AMERICA that gave Iraqis the vote for the first time in decades and Afghan women the vote for the first time in recorded human history.... while the French and Germans and Belgians and their ilk were sitting around whinging and crying-- and selling Saddam guns and bombs under the table. We kicked Hitler's bony ass and gambled Stalin out of his shorts.
And our nation may be going through dire troubles now.... it may even be in its final decline, unless divine Providence intervenes.... But even at half our size and a third our strength we're STILL the leader of the pack. And the only reason we're IN a crisis in the first place is because the spoiled whiny idiots who greased their way into power want America to be more like EUROPE.