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Written by an Australian Dentist

To Kill an American
You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)

'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian , or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan . The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion.. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.

The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous.. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!


As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.


From an e-mail I received. Pass it on!
 
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An American is Christian , or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan . The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.


They just can't hold public office and are expected to lie in court so they don't get charged with contempt.
An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.

What?

HIGHEST GDP PER CAPITA1 (PPP in U.S. dollars): 2008
1. Qatar $87,600
2. Luxembourg 79,400
3. Kuwait 55,900
4. Norway 53,300
5. Brunei 51,000
6. Singapore 49,900
7. Ireland 46,600
8. United States 45,800
8. Iceland 40,400
9. Switzerland 40,100
10. Austria 39,300[


OWEST INFLATION:1 2008
1. Nauru –3.6%
2. San Marino -1.5
3. Burkina Faso -0.2
4. Japan 0.1
5. Niger 0.1
6. Kiribati 0.2
7. Brunei 0.4
8. Israel 0.5
9. Switzerland 0.7
10. Norway


LOWEST INFANT MORTALITY RATE2
(deaths per 1,000 births): 2008
1. Singapore 2.3
2. Sweden 2.8
Japan 2.8
4. Iceland 3.2
Macau S.A.R. 3.2
6. France 3.4
7. Finland 3.5
Anguilla 3.5
9. Norway 3.6
10. Andorra 3.7
HIGHEST LIFE EXPECTANCY2 (in years): 2007
1. Andorra 82.7
2. Japan 82.1
3. San Marino 81.9
Singapore 81.9
4. Hong Kong S.A.R. 81.8
5. Australia 81.5
6. Canada 81.2
7. France 80.9
8. Sweden 80.7
Switzerland 80.7
Guernsey 80.7


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Country Statistics at a Glance — Infoplease.com




The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous.. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!


As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.


From an e-mail I received. Pass i ton!

Top Ten Countries with which the U.S. has a Trade Deficit
For the month of October 2009

Year To Date
Deficit in Deficit in
Millions Millions
Country Name of U.S. $ of U.S. $

China -22,663.37 -188,464.41
Mexico -4,554.27 -37,171.69
Japan -4,423.34 -34,727.64
Federal Republic of Germany -2,787.06 -21,814.76
Canada -2,002.03 -15,759.95
Ireland -1,998.27 -17,868.64
Venezuela -1,675.05 -14,979.15
Nigeria -1,391.61 -11,232.28
Thailand -1,254.23 -9,836.81
Malaysia -1,173.97 -10,521.59
Top Ten Countries with which the U.S. has a Trade Deficit

List of countries by external debt
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Map of countries by external debt based on 2005 CIA factbook figures

This is a list of countries by gross (i.e. total) external debt and by external debt per capita.

The external debt of a country is defined as the "total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services"[1], where the public debt is the money or credit owed by any level of government, from central to local, and the private debt the money or credit owed by private households or private corporations based in the country under consideration.

The debt per capita in a country is defined as the total debt of that country divided by its population.

The list is based on The World Factbook unless otherwise noted.[2] For informational purposes several non-sovereign entities are also included in this list.
Rank ↓ Country - Entity ↓ External debt
(millions US$) ↓ Date of information ↓ External debt
per capita (US$) ↓ Date of population* ↓ External debt (% of GDP) ↓
1 United States[3] $13,773,000 6/30/2009 $42,343 31-March-08 95%
List of countries by external debt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Economy Statistics > Debt > External (most recent) by country
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Rank Countries Amount Date
# 1 United States: $12,250,000,000,000.00 2007 Time series
# 2 United Kingdom: $10,450,000,000,000.00 2007 Time series
# 3 Germany: $4,489,000,000,000.00 2007 Time series
# 4 France: $4,396,000,000,000.00 2007 Time series
# 5 Italy: $2,345,000,000,000.00 2007 Time series
# 6 Netherlands: $2,277,000,000,000.00 2007 Time series
# 7 Ireland: $1,841,000,000,000.00 2007 Time series
# 8 Japan: $1,492,000,000,000.00 2007 Time series
# 9 Switzerland: $1,340,000,000,000.00 2007 Time series

Debt external (most recent) by country

MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES
(in billions of dollars)
HOLDINGS 1/ AT END OF PERIOD


Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan Dec Nov Oct Sep
Country 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008
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China, Mainland 798.9 797.1 800.5 776.4 801.5 763.5 767.9 744.2 739.6 727.4 713.2 684.1 618.2
Japan 751.5 731.2 724.5 711.8 677.2 685.9 686.7 661.9 634.8 626.0 625.2 629.6 617.5
United Kingdom 2/ 249.3 226.9 219.9 214.0 163.7 152.7 128.1 129.0 123.9 130.9 132.4 133.1 112.8
Oil Exporters 3/ 185.3 189.1 189.2 191.2 192.8 189.5 192.0 181.7 186.6 186.2 187.2 176.7 171.2
Carib Bnkng Ctrs 4/ 171.7 179.9 193.2 189.7 194.8 204.7 213.6 189.1 176.6 197.5 205.0 203.5 169.3
Brazil 144.9 137.3 138.1 139.8 127.1 126.0 126.6 130.8 133.5 127.0 136.1 141.0 148.3
Hong Kong 132.2 124.7 115.3 99.8 93.2 80.9 78.9 76.3 71.7 77.2 70.6 69.8 65.5
Russia 121.8 121.6 118.0 119.9 124.5 137.0 138.4 130.1 119.6 116.4 108.0 110.8 99.6
Luxembourg 98.7 94.2 92.0 104.1 96.2 97.4 106.0 92.1 87.0 97.3 94.2 100.6 104.5
Taiwan 78.1 75.9 77.4 77.0 75.7 78.3 74.8 72.6 73.3 71.8 70.2 65.9 63.0
Switzerland 68.9 68.2 68.1 71.5 63.7 64.2 67.7 68.2 62.1 62.3 63.8 62.0 49.7
Germany 53.7 55.0 56.1 53.8 55.1 54.4 54.9 56.5 56.2 56.0 53.8 53.6 51.5
Korea 38.8 38.7 37.6 36.3 37.4 35.4 33.1 33.3 31.3 31.3 32.7 36.2 40.2
Singapore 38.3 42.0 42.3 40.8 39.6 39.7 39.1 39.3 38.3 40.8 38.7 34.0 32.2
Canada 38.3 26.2 20.2 19.0 11.5 13.1 11.9 10.9 9.0 8.2 12.7 14.0 16.0
India 35.9 38.5 38.9 39.3 38.8 38.5 38.2 34.6 32.5 29.2 22.3 18.3 20.3
Ireland 32.7 36.5 38.6 46.3 50.6 49.7 54.7 54.4 50.0 54.3 41.3 35.1 32.9
France 32.1 35.0 24.6 26.0 25.9 30.6 27.1 16.8 17.9 16.8 18.4 20.5 19.3
Thailand 30.1 33.5 31.4 29.7 26.8 28.5 26.0 39.7 37.2 32.4 33.9 33.6 27.4
Turkey 28.2 28.7 27.3 27.5 28.8 27.2 30.2 32.4 31.3 30.8 29.0 27.9 31.5
Norway 25.2 24.7 28.9 28.7 28.3 27.5 26.2 21.1 21.9 23.1 20.2 11.5 13.2
Mexico 22.1 27.5 27.7 29.5 31.5 35.3 36.2 37.8 34.8 34.8 33.8 32.2 32.5
Netherlands 21.3 21.3 21.5 18.9 16.3 16.5 17.6 16.1 16.8 15.4 15.6 15.7 15.6
Egypt 20.8 20.4 18.6 17.3 18.6 18.5 18.5 19.1 16.9 17.2 16.8 16.7 15.5
Sweden 18.3 16.7 16.5 16.5 13.0 12.7 12.5 12.7 12.4 12.7 13.1 13.5 13.6
Israel 18.3 17.7 16.9 18.1 19.0 19.1 19.4 17.4 16.9 18.8 13.8 12.4 8.7
Italy 17.6 16.9 17.3 16.7 16.7 16.1 16.6 16.4 15.6 16.0 15.9 15.2 11.6
Colombia 16.7 16.3 14.8 11.8 11.9 11.4 11.2 11.4 11.3 11.1 11.5 11.3 9.9
Belgium 15.0 15.6 15.7 15.7 15.7 15.8 15.4 14.5 15.5 15.9 15.3 15.8 15.4
Chile 12.9 13.0 13.5 14.3 14.7 15.1 15.5 15.2 15.2 15.2 15.1 15.4 13.4
Philippines 11.8 12.4 11.4 11.6 11.8 12.0 12.4 12.6 11.6 11.7 11.5 12.1 12.0
Malaysia 11.0 11.2 11.9 11.7 12.3 11.6 10.6 8.4 8.0 8.4 8.8 8.6 9.4
All Other 156.8 158.7 159.5 157.5 157.6 153.4 156.5 164.8 162.3 156.4 156.1 149.0 137.7
Grand Total 3497.3 3452.9 3427.4 3382.1 3292.6 3262.0 3264.7 3161.4 3071.6 3076.3 3036.0 2979.7 2799.5

Of which:
For. Official 2369.5 2360.1 2346.2 2295.7 2287.5 2253.6 2248.6 2198.1 2165.8 2138.7 2104.1 2063.7 1981.0
Treasury Bills 597.7 607.3 606.6 571.9 586.2 530.6 542.7 521.2 486.9 457.9 427.2 360.6 276.8
T-Bonds & Notes 1771.8 1752.8 1739.6 1723.8 1701.3 1723.1 1705.9 1676.9 1678.9 1680.8 1676.9 1703.1 1704.2

http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt
 
The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index Table Rankings

1 Finland 10 9 9 3 7 2 2 7 6
2 Switzerland 2 13 1 22 3 6 3 11 2
3 Sweden 16 3 7 4 15 7 5 5 3
4 Denmark 15 6 12 2 12 4 1 2 13
5 Norway 18 17 8 1 10 1 7 1 10
6 Australia 7 15 5 6 21 14 10 4 4
7 Canada 6 4 6 16 22 9 9 3 9
8 Netherlands 3 5 19 14 8 15 8 10 8
9 United States 14 1 2 7 27 19 16 8 7
10 New Zealand 27 18 4 10 19 13 11 6 1

The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index
 
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The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.


welll... White land-owning men, anyway
An American is generous.. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return

Let's ask China, India, Cuba, Venezuela...
When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!


Not really. We kept the Russians from getting stronger and left the Afghans with the aftermath.

As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

right... we wanted to kill our old CIA opuppet because he turned on us. We never cared about the Afghans until 9/11, just like we never gave a shit about the Jews until Dec 7th, 1941
The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.

Let's open our textbooks and see how America treated the Chinese, Italians, Polish, Irish, and other immigrants in reality...
So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did.
Hitler never attacked us.
So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.

Only after we invaded- or did you never actually read a history book?
But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

I swear I read some shit just like that, except 'American' was replaced with 'Proletarian' and they built the whole fucking world


Whoever wrote that e-mail is a nitwit
 
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Pakistan is a problem.

In recent surveys the majority of Pakistanis did not blame the Taliban or related Islamic fascists for the terror acts they commit against their fellow Islamic civilians, the majority blamed the US and their own democratic government.

This idiocy is fueled by many of their politicians, like the former cricketer Imran Khan, those who fuel irrational xenophobia and play with an Islamic extremism for short term political gain but then find they really can not control such Islamic extreamism.

So we have a dysfunctional society who blames everyone but themselves for their dysfunction and they have nuclear weapons.

Not good.

The most important international relationship, in my mind, is the US and India right now.

This is the critical pivot point for democracy.
 
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Written by an Australian Dentist

To Kill an American
You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)

'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian , or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan . The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion.. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.

The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous.. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!


As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.


From an e-mail I received. Pass i ton!

Thats why they look down on americans, they consider americans to be a bunch of mixed breeds.
 
Don't take it seriously, Australian dentists always make a mountain out of a molar.

No true blue Australian takes dentists seriously.

Which is why we never smile.

Still, we are better than the British, who smile but should not.
 
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Hammer and Sickle boi and usshitizen are now firmly "down" with the whole America sucks program.

I mean, wtf? Qatar has a higher average income? Great. Must be a fuckin' paradise to live there, eh?

And in the defense of freedom throught many generations, America has resorted to bullets. usshitizen simply NAILED that one. :cuckoo:
 
Pakistan is a problem.

In recent surveys the majority of Pakistanis did not blame the Taliban or related Islamic fascists for the terror acts they commit against their fellow Islamic civilians, the majority blamed the US and their own democratic government.

What survey are you referring to?
 
I mean, wtf? Qatar has a higher average income? Great. Must be a fuckin' paradise to live there, eh?

The Op was about prosperity, not social conditions. Dumbass.
And in the defense of freedom throught many generations, America has resorted to bullets. usshitizen simply NAILED that one. :cuckoo:

Like the bullets fired at Kent state? Or the bullets used in an attempt to prevent the Vietnamese from ending their condition as a French colony? Maybe it was the bullets we used to stop the Japanese and Nazis from wiping out innocent parties- oh yeah never cared about them or the Iraqi people until it was in our own (largely economic) interests to intervene. Where was the US to oppose Saddam when our oil wasn't being threatened in Kuwait or the president didn't have a score to settle with Daddy's old foe? Where were we after we kicked the Russians out of Afghanistan before they became a proxy target because we can't afford to attack Iran?

The OP is a joke and goes perfectly with this thread
 
☭proletarian☭;1798017 said:
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.


welll... White land-owning men, anyway
An American is generous.. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return

Let's ask China, India, Cuba, Venezuela...



Not really. We kept the Russians from getting stronger and left the Afghans with the aftermath.



right... we wanted to kill our old CIA opuppet because he turned on us. We never cared about the Afghans until 9/11, just like we never gave a shit about the Jews until Dec 7th, 1941


Let's open our textbooks and see how America treated the Chinese, Italians, Polish, Irish, and other immigrants in reality...

Hitler never attacked us.
So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.

Only after we invaded- or did you never actually read a history book?
But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

I swear I read some shit just like that, except 'American' was replaced with 'Proletarian' and they built the whole fucking world


Whoever wrote that e-mail is a nitwit

Hitler declared war on us before we took military action against him, his declaration of war upon us made him partners with the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor thus by proxy involving Germany in that attack upon the U.S.
 
Hitler declared war on us before we took military action against him, his declaration of war upon us made him partners with the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor thus by proxy involving Germany in that attack upon the U.S.

Not quite. In 1940, the US passed the Lend-Lease act, The US intention to support England with finances and materials in their war against Germany was clear. This meant the US was no longer neutral, but had declared war de facto upon Germany. We simply hadn't declared any intention of sending troops.
 
☭proletarian☭;1798017 said:
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.


welll... White land-owning men, anyway


Let's ask China, India, Cuba, Venezuela...



Not really. We kept the Russians from getting stronger and left the Afghans with the aftermath.



right... we wanted to kill our old CIA opuppet because he turned on us. We never cared about the Afghans until 9/11, just like we never gave a shit about the Jews until Dec 7th, 1941


Let's open our textbooks and see how America treated the Chinese, Italians, Polish, Irish, and other immigrants in reality...

Hitler never attacked us.


Only after we invaded- or did you never actually read a history book?
But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

I swear I read some shit just like that, except 'American' was replaced with 'Proletarian' and they built the whole fucking world


Whoever wrote that e-mail is a nitwit

Hitler declared war on us before we took military action against him, his declaration of war upon us made him partners with the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor thus by proxy involving Germany in that attack upon the U.S.

Not to defend hitler but, we proviede lend lease aid to Germany's enemies long before Hitler declared war on us. We also provided some fighting forces. Contractors of course ;)
 
☭proletarian☭;1798974 said:
Hitler declared war on us before we took military action against him, his declaration of war upon us made him partners with the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor thus by proxy involving Germany in that attack upon the U.S.

Not quite. In 1940, the US passed the Lend-Lease act, The US intention to support England with finances and materials in their war against Germany was clear. This meant the US was no longer neutral, but had declared war de facto upon Germany. We simply hadn't declared any intention of sending troops.

nope, no declaration of war had been made, consumer trade is very much different from combat operations.
 

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