What are American Values?

[Avatar4321]

Im curious what you percieve American values to be.

 

[Salt Jones]

Screw them, before they screw you.

 

[Anachronism]

Traditional 18th Century Western values. Personal Responsibility. Gender Roles. Patriarchal Society.

 

[syrenn]

Im curious what you percieve American values to be.

Values huh? What they are or what they should be?


What American values are now:

Get as much as you can for free.
Spend as much money that you can.
Spend as much of other peoples money you can.
Instant gratification is not FAST enough.
Don't worry, the government will take care of you.
Work the very least you can get away with.
me me me, want want want, now now now.


What they should be: (imo)

Working hard and being able to enjoy the fruits of your own labor.
Take care of yourself, work hard, the government is not your mother and does not owe you a lifestyle.
Live within your means.
Help others as much as you can.

 

[JBeukema]

There is no such things as 'American values'. There are only the values held by the American people at any given time.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Traditional 18th Century Western values. Personal Responsibility. Gender Roles. Patriarchal Society.

What they should be: (imo)

Working hard and being able to enjoy the fruits of your own labor.
Take care of yourself, work hard, the government is not your mother and does not owe you a lifestyle.
Live within your means.
Help others as much as you can.

Rightist reactionaryism, how quaint.

There is not such things as 'American values'. There are only the values held by the American people at any given time.

True.

Not a value, more of a tenet, would be the understanding and acknowledgment of the rule of law.

 

[syrenn]

There is not such things as 'American values'. There are only the values held by the American people at any given time.

Bingo...see above. That is the prevailing American value.

 

[JBeukema]

Working hard and being able to enjoy the fruits of your own labor.

So you oppose capitalism and the collection of rent?

Take care of yourself, work hard, the government is not your mother and does not owe you a lifestyle.

So you oppose veterans' benefits?

 

[rdean]

Traditional 18th Century Western values. Personal Responsibility. Gender Roles. Patriarchal Society.

Before women could vote? When the south had slaves?

 

[rdean]

Working hard and being able to enjoy the fruits of your own labor.

So you oppose capitalism and the collection of rent?

Take care of yourself, work hard, the government is not your mother and does not owe you a lifestyle.

So you oppose veterans' benefits?

When veterans were called to protect this country, they risked their lives to do so.

 

[uscitizen]

War?
Profit?
Instant gratification?
Blame gaming?
Temoporary marriages?
Out of wedlock children, there seems to be no shame associated with it now so it must be a value.
Fear driven politics?

Those are a few of the current American Values that I see.
But as correctly stated above they change and are not what they used to be.

 

[rdean]

There is not such things as 'American values'. There are only the values held by the American people at any given time.

Bingo...see above. That is the prevailing American value.

Actually, there are lot's of American values. For some, the richest Americans are the only ones with any value.

 

[uscitizen]

Working hard and being able to enjoy the fruits of your own labor.

So you oppose capitalism and the collection of rent?

Take care of yourself, work hard, the government is not your mother and does not owe you a lifestyle.

So you oppose veterans' benefits?

When veterans were called to protect this country, they risked their lives to do so.

yeah been about 60 yeatrs since we did that though.

 

[JBeukema]

Working hard and being able to enjoy the fruits of your own labor.

So you oppose capitalism and the collection of rent?

Take care of yourself, work hard, the government is not your mother and does not owe you a lifestyle.

So you oppose veterans' benefits?

When veterans were called to protect this country, they risked their lives to do so.

So the government does ow them a lifestyle?

So many conflicting talking points!

 

[JBeukema]

War?
Profit?
Instant gratification?
Blame gaming?
Temoporary marriages?
Out of wedlock children, there seems to be no shame associated with it now so it must be a value.
Fear driven politics?

Those are a few of the current American Values that I see.
But as correctly stated above they change and are not what they used to be.

So, to summarize:

jingoism and libertinism

 

[percysunshine]

What are American Values?

Being this is a message board...I am going to go out on a limb and say free speech is one of them.

 

[JBeukema]

What are American Values?

Being this is a message board...I am going to go out on a limb and say free speech is one of them.

Bull *****ing shit

 

[percysunshine]

What are American Values?

Being this is a message board...I am going to go out on a limb and say free speech is one of them.

Bull *****ing shit

I will defend your right to say *****, to the death...not that I know what it was...

 

[syrenn]

Working hard and being able to enjoy the fruits of your own labor.

So you oppose capitalism and the collection of rent?

Take care of yourself, work hard, the government is not your mother and does not owe you a lifestyle.

So you oppose veterans' benefits?

If i worked hard and purchased rental property....its mine to rent. Work hard and buy your own to rent out.

If you served your country you earned those benefits, they are not coming to you for nothing.

 

[uscitizen]

I dunno what those are so I cannot make an opinion.

I like to play Jinga the stacked blocks game.