The USA is good for making money and being safe from foreign invasion.
Otherwise a lot has been going downhill and there is too much patriotic pride to admit or change it. But it's multiple issues, hyper-capitalism, lobbyists, no form of conflict of interest rules for politicians or anyone working for them, multiple news channels supporting "2 views", but all on the same page of ignoring the class warfare.
I've talked to lots of people from other countries as I meet a lot of people and talk to many and most see us as going downhill or having poor worker rights and no social safety net (healthcare).
Someone from China told me their parents think Americans work too much. Another person from Eastern Europe things we are in the toilet, etc. Other people from South America saying how they would pick Canada over the US any day. I just laugh when I hear it, because I feel we are too blind to see it.
School shooting solutions are all about guns instead of the real issue, mental health.
Politicians that want people limited on what they can earn with SS (keeping elderly people poor), when they get very good retirement benefits. Politicians dodging taxes or making sure the IRS is ill staffed, when its proven more IRS helps get the bungled dollars from Big Companies and Pockets that are cheating the system.
Otherwise a lot has been going downhill and there is too much patriotic pride to admit or change it. But it's multiple issues, hyper-capitalism, lobbyists, no form of conflict of interest rules for politicians or anyone working for them, multiple news channels supporting "2 views", but all on the same page of ignoring the class warfare.
I've talked to lots of people from other countries as I meet a lot of people and talk to many and most see us as going downhill or having poor worker rights and no social safety net (healthcare).
Someone from China told me their parents think Americans work too much. Another person from Eastern Europe things we are in the toilet, etc. Other people from South America saying how they would pick Canada over the US any day. I just laugh when I hear it, because I feel we are too blind to see it.
School shooting solutions are all about guns instead of the real issue, mental health.
Politicians that want people limited on what they can earn with SS (keeping elderly people poor), when they get very good retirement benefits. Politicians dodging taxes or making sure the IRS is ill staffed, when its proven more IRS helps get the bungled dollars from Big Companies and Pockets that are cheating the system.