>>>>>>>>It's how we deal with the over-population problem.
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>>>>>>>Which overpopulation? the US is vastly underpopulated if you compare it to other parts of the world. To give you an idea. Europe holds almost twice the number of citizens in a geographical space that is almost half of that of the US.
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>>>>>>You can't compare the US to the rest of the world. We are better than everyone else, so there's obviously - no comparison!<g>
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>>>>>Entirely my point....
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>>>>Which is exactly my point! We don't think we're better, we are just a sovereign nation.
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>>>John, you've already made the point of the confirmation of the stereotype of an US american we have up here. There is no need to reconfirm.
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>>One of the things that disappoints me most about the esteem the U.S. has lost around the world in the Bush years is that lots of people think we are ALL knuckleheads. We aren't. Not everyone was for invading Iraq, or for torture. Not all of us are ignorant of anything that happens outside the U.S.
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>Indeed we began to look at the US much differently after Bush got elected. A cowboy with the IQ of a peanut that only got elected because his powerfull family rather than intellectual property. Not to mention all the at least doubtfull and important decisions his administration made the last couple of years.
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>But of course we are aware not all american are like that. Its just that a bunch of idiots are in power right now.
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I think the biggest blow to our esteem was when he was re-elected in 2004. Anyone can make a mistake once. But voting him back in after the first four years would give anyone reason to think we're idiots.