Damn it's good to live in the United States

[lennypartiv]

It's creepy that you (or anyone) finds a 68 year old woman masturbating interesting.

Prior to Al Gore inventing the internet, many didn't know the exact meaning of the song. Now you can look up anything. Plus some bloggers like to play the Cliff Clavin role.

 

[maybelooking]

America is without a doubt the greatest country to ever exist.

The left is doing everything they can to change that!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Lisa558]

Agree! This wonderful country enabled my dad and uncle, born into poverty to (legal) immigrants who came here to give themselves and their future children a better life, were able to get fine educations in very marketable fields, and end up in affluence. From a fourth-story walk up tenement to large homes and world travel In one generation. Only in America!

 

[Lisa558]

As far as the general public, ANYONE can move out of poverty. Maybe not into the upper-middle class, but certainly into the lower-middle class, with an air-conditioned apartment (or small house), a decent car, and fully equipped kitchen. All it takes is:

1. Finish high school
2. No babies until after marriage
3. Some sort of post-high school vocational program in a useful field, which will be laid for by Pell Grants.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

It's too bad most of you let the media impair your ability to see that. I'm pretty thankful that I'm not one of those 3.7 billion people in the world that don't have access to the internet, possibly the most powerful tool we've created so far. It's also nice to live in a country where virtually nobody starves, unlike the 9 million people worldwide that die annually from starvation. Oh, and the government will take care of our badly raised children in public schools and even try to teach them to read and do math so we can go to work and make money. Yep. Life is so good that I have the ability to sit on my butt in an air-conditioned room, Starbucks in hand, and argue with other spoiled first worlders on an internet forum.

Post of the day! Thanks for posting it

 

[Blues Man]

It's never as bad as the powers that be tell you it is.

The so called leaders in this country want you to live in fear so they can push their agendas of control on you

 

[Harpy Eagle]

In other countries if you are born poor, that's exactly where you are going to stay. In this country, a kid raised in poverty can become wealthy and even a household name with some effort.

While that can happen in America, the odds of it happening are about the worst of all industrialized nations.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

OMG!!!.... Transgenders!!! Transgenders!! America is great... how dare you!!...you.. OMG Transgenders!!!

 

[Canon Shooter]

It's creepy that you (or anyone) finds a 68 year old woman masturbating interesting.

To be fair, she was only 30 when the song was released...

 

[iamwhatiseem]

"As a 1/4 Latino woman who identifies as a non binary female minority ... I am appalled by this thread!!"

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

While that can happen in America, the odds of it happening are about the worst of all industrialized nations.

How do you figure that? People with nothing don't try to sneak into those other industrialized nations for opportunity. They do that here. Look at the millions Dementia is allowing to invade our country. Oh, they make the trip to NYC, but how many tried to get into Canada?

Socialist countries tax you so high to the point it's virtually impossible to become wealthy.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

How do you figure that? People with nothing don't try to sneak into those other industrialized nations for opportunity. They do that here. Look at the millions Dementia is allowing to invade our country. Oh, they make the trip to NYC, but how many tried to get into Canada?

Socialist countries tax you so high to the point it's virtually impossible to become wealthy.

Hard to become wealthy, but easier to get out of poverty.

But I "figure" that with data...

Ranked: The Social Mobility of 82 Countries

Ranked: The Social Mobility of 82 Countries It’s an unfortunate truth that a person’s opportunities can be partially tethered to their socioeconomic status at birth. Although winning or losing the “birth lottery” will continue to shape the lives of generations to come, climbing the socioeconomic...

www.visualcapitalist.com

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Hard to become wealthy, but easier to get out of poverty.

But I "figure" that with data...

Ranked: The Social Mobility of 82 Countries

Ranked: The Social Mobility of 82 Countries It’s an unfortunate truth that a person’s opportunities can be partially tethered to their socioeconomic status at birth. Although winning or losing the “birth lottery” will continue to shape the lives of generations to come, climbing the socioeconomic...

www.visualcapitalist.com

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Do you even realize how dumb this is?
The top 10 countries are well over 95% the same race.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Do you even realize how dumb this is?
The top 10 countries are well over 95% the same race.

so, it is the brown people's fault we have bad social mobility.

Gotcha!

Thanks for letting us know

 

[iamwhatiseem]

so, it is the brown people's fault we have bad social mobility.

Gotcha!

Thanks for letting us know

Uh yeah... maybe...I don't know... call me crazy... but having over 95% of your population the same race just might improve your social mobility by race.
I would think that would be obvious

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Uh yeah... maybe...I don't know... call me crazy... but having over 95% of your population the same race just might improve your social mobility by race.
I would think that would be obvious

the rankings are not social mobility by race, just social mobility overall.

 

[progressive hunter]

the rankings are not social mobility by race, just social mobility overall.

to make it about race would be racist,, are you a racist??

 

[iamwhatiseem]

the rankings are not social mobility by race, just social mobility overall.

Dude... they all kind of live the same.
If you moved to Denmark, let's say... you would find the average flat unbelievably small and crowded. But that is what is considered normal there.
Here, two adults who can't afford a single family home and have to rent would be counted as a negative.
THERE - they would be counted as normal - a positive.
You can't compare one country to another evenly when they are far from even.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

so, it is the brown people's fault we have bad social mobility.

Gotcha!

Thanks for letting us know

We don't have bad social mobility. We have people that won't exercise it. Unlike those other countries, government doesn't decide who will go up or down. We decide that for ourselves.

When you go to a basketball or football game, look at the field or court. What do you see? You see a bunch of people who became millionaires playing a child's game. LeBoob James grew up about 25 minutes outside of Cleveland. He was raised in the Akron projects. Dirt poor. Today he's a billionaire in a few short years. Show me one person in any of those countries that ever had that kind of success. He's not alone, most all of those players on the field didn't come from money either.

The United States creates a new millionaire every day and sometimes several. Our lotteries alone make people rich overnight. Buy a scratch off and win a million bucks. Happens all the time. In fact it happens so often they created a show out of it called My Lottery Dream Home. It's on HGTV. They get lottery winners who are looking to move after they hit the big bucks and the host shows them houses and condos, and they decide which one they want to move to.

You don't realize how fortunate you are to be born here over anywhere else. I do, and I thank God he put me here.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

We don't have bad social mobility. We have people that won't exercise it. Unlike those other countries, government doesn't decide who will go up or down. We decide that for ourselves.

When you go to a basketball or football game, look at the field or court. What do you see? You see a bunch of people who became millionaires playing a child's game. LeBoob James grew up about 25 minutes outside of Cleveland. He was raised in the Akron projects. Dirt poor. Today he's a billionaire in a few short years. Show me one person in any of those countries that ever had that kind of success. He's not alone, most all of those players on the field didn't come from money either.

The United States creates a new millionaire every day and sometimes several. Our lotteries alone make people rich overnight. Buy a scratch off and win a million bucks. Happens all the time. In fact it happens so often they created a show out of it called My Lottery Dream Home. It's on HGTV. They get lottery winners who are looking to move after they hit the big bucks and the host shows them houses and condos, and they decide which one they want to move to.

You don't realize how fortunate you are to be born here over anywhere else. I do, and I thank God he put me here.

There are less than 2200 players between the NBA and the NFL and your argument is that because they did it, everyone can do it? Really?

And then your next argument is that because some people gambled and got lucky it means everyone can do so?

Wow, that is some impressive logic there.

Oh, and I do know how fortunate I am to be born here, I have travelled extensively and seen more of the world that most. But that does not mean I have to wear rose colored glasses and say that everyone can be like Lebron.