America were number 1?

[drummer55]

America No. 1?

America by the numbers

by Michael Ventura

02/03/05 "ICH" - - No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled "un-American." We're an "empire," ain't we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're No. 1. Well...this is the country you really live in:


http://207.44.245.159/article8191.htm

[Straight Shooter]

1. We may think we're number 1. The rest of the world thinks we're number 2.

If you know what I mean :D

[babylonsister]

2. No poop!

[Chipper Chat]

4. Even Canada thinks we're poop.

Find me a Canadian who still has respect for the USA (well, maybe a coupla fundies in Alberta). Our fearless leader went up there and managed to insult the government and tried to bully the citizens. One of these days Canada may just get pissed off enough to close their borders, end all trade, and tell our ambassador to go home.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. One should really read the whole article to appreciate it

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a snip:

"Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea hold 40 percent of our government debt. (That's why we talk nice to them.) "By helping keep mortgage rates from rising, China has come to play an enormous and little-noticed role in sustaining the American housing boom" (NYT, Dec. 4, 2004). Read that twice. We owe our housing boom to China, because they want us to keep buying all that stuff they manufacture.


Sometime in the next 10 years Brazil will probably pass the U.S. as the world's largest agricultural producer. Brazil is now the world's largest exporter of chickens, orange juice, sugar, coffee, and tobacco. Last year, Brazil passed the U.S. as the world's largest beef producer. (Hear that, you poor deluded cowboys?) As a result, while we bear record trade deficits, Brazil boasts a $30 billion trade surplus (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). "

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Interesting . . .

[TyeDye75]

5. and yet

there is still so much potential in your country...

If only the right people were in charge and there were more people like DUers.