Why do people say this is the best country..

[Monty Mikho]

Why do people say this is the best country in the world when they have never been to any other country? Do they let the 5:00 news decide that for them? Is it because people tell them it is? Is it because they are happy and just figure it is? If this country became a 3rd world country, would people still stay here? or would they go find a place they can make a better living for their family?

[Rod Lenz]

If you're a wimpy loser like Johnny Depp........go to France. We're just too aggressive here!! :-D
Seriously Monty, I don't know. But I have plenty of friends and relatives who have travelled the world and they all agree..........this place IS the best. Everybody can't be wrong (Unless you're outside the "box" :-D )

[Jimmy Biggs]

I've been around the World and without a doubt this is the best country on the Planet.....Well I would like the Autobaun moved here....other then that I thank GOD for being born here........I'm singing Proud to be an American by Lee Greenwood now

[Rod Lenz]

you mean Greenwood?? :roll: Damn it, I am a country F&^%

[Jimmy Biggs]

I put that first then thought I screwed up :oops: ....anyway the song makes me stand at attention every time I hear it :shock:

[Monty Mikho]

If you're a wimpy loser like Johnny Depp........go to France. We're just too aggressive here!! :-D
Seriously Monty, I don't know. But I have plenty of friends and relatives who have travelled the world and they all agree..........this place IS the best. Everybody can't be wrong (Unless you're outside the "box" :-D )

So if a few people tell you something it has to be the truth?

[Rod Lenz]

yeah, I'm a follower :-D

[7DMACH1]

"God Bless America"

[Chris Uratchko]

You no like our country Monty????

[Monty Mikho]

I love this country!!! I was born in a different country... I have been to other countries.. and say this is the best country out there.. I just wonder how the guy with the wife beater shirt on is cheering and trying to represent this country and has never been anywhere outside his state..

[Jimmy Biggs]

Thats always where the problem is......the people who don't see the other Countries saying this place is screwed up

[Rod Lenz]

HEY!!!!!!!!! You leave the way I dress out of this :evil: :evil:
Besides I've been to more than one state, I used to be Chicken Hauler, er....truck driver!!!!!!! :x

[Monty Mikho]

Looks like more of your chicken work was in the midwest!!! :-D

[Rod Lenz]

I don't haul chickens any more. But I do know what we do with the Ga peaches that we can't eat. :wink:

[Sledgehammer]

It also boils down to deductive reasoning.....what is important to your life and is that value impeded or restricted in other countries.

The oppurtunity to make choices that can improve your life and your family's life without the boundries of class, caste or many other limiting factors.

Has it been easy for me as a black man in this world.....no but am I going to sit and 'itch and moan about it.....nope...my parents raised a winner not a whiner.

http://www.toocooldesigns.nl/menus/images/Never-give-up-Frog_small.jpgI am like the frog ....I will never give up cause you never know what is right around the next corner.

I have been out of the country a few times and will probably again a few more times before I see Pat Lynch (who I wish I had more time to chat with than the short time I did) and my dear friend Jim Wittenberg.

There are a lot of things people actually come to a decision about with never truely experiencing. For example.....me skydiving and bungee jumping are not things on my list of enjoyable activities. I could never understand the need to jump out of a perfectly good flying craft. Also playing the Fartgame with you Monty...just not one of the things on my list to experience in life. Why...cause I know my farts stink too.....so why would I want to smell yours or someone elses....even though I have never smelled any methane that has escaped from your biological containment system.

[O.C White]

Why do people say this is the best country in the world when they have never been to any other country? Do they let the 5:00 news decide that for them? Is it because people tell them it is? Is it because they are happy and just figure it is? If this country became a 3rd world country, would people still stay here? or would they go find a place they can make a better living for their family?

Monty,

as you know I have been to other parts of the world and I am going to have to say, we might not be the best, but we are the most fortunate. But are we? What other country in the world has all the major weather disaster i.e tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes, drought, heatwaves, coldwaves, you name it.

What makes people mad at us, I feel is we do not call out to other countries to come to our aid, we take care of our own, and plenty more around the world. Just my .02 cents and it ain't worth very much. :D

[Mousehouse]

I would say we are the best all around country. We are not the best at everything. Look at health care and the direction it is going. Before to long anyone that wants to retire will have their retirement checks paying for their health care and they will have to find another job to support their family.

We have to much government that doesn't give a crap about anything besides itself.

This country is run by big corporations and what they want they get. Look at the airlines. Where else will a court allow United to file bankruptcy and dump their pension plans. Who picks up the tab. We do the taxpayer.