America: Whose Yer Daddy?

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 00:22:19 MDT

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    Snippets from a moderately toned, Washington Times article.

    <"What we think of ourselves does not depend on the opinions of others," says
    Matthew Spalding, director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American
    Studies at the Heritage Foundation. "And that is what it means to be self-governing,
    as our founders originally intended. It gives us great confidence."
        "We don't ignore world opinion, but we don't allow it to determine our
    fate. At our core, we have intellectual and moral independence in the very
    largest sense."
        Poll numbers support that, too.
        Almost six out of 10 Americans, according to a recent ABC News poll, are
    not particularly concerned that the relationships with France, Germany and
    Russia were bruised during the war against Iraq. >>

    *You can't please everyone, especially when some of those "everyones" want
    the US as a pacified, dumb, puppet.*

    and...

    <<Indeed, a Carnegie poll in November of more than 1,000 foreign-born
    immigrants found that 80 percent of them, given the chance to "do it again," would
    come to the United States; 96 percent said they were happy; and 80 percent
    called this nation "a unique country that stands for something special in the
    world." >>

    *Comming to a different language and social structure is rugged. On the other
    hand, the US is still one of the few 'immigration' countries left.*
        
    and,...
    <<This week, it was the British Broadcasting Corp.'s turn to poke at America.
    A BBC poll of 11,000 persons in 11 countries released Tuesday said 65 percent
    of those surveyed thought Americans were "arrogant," and 85 percent said
    Americans were not "humble." >>

    *Humble? Why we are the humblest people on Earth! :-D Arrogant, maybe. I
    don't sit around work all day thinking how great America is. I worry about us
    becomming less free, and in turn we become less free because we are less
    resolute. The American political establishment's love-affair with the Saudi-ruling
    class troubles me, the lack of understanding that when high-tech jobs go
    overseas to foreign outsourced companies (as has been argued before), nobody locally
    will benefit in the US., except the Boards of Directors. Long-term we wind up
    with a poorer country. The need for a decent energy policy worries me, and so
    forth. So, I for one, do not sit back confidently, with my feet up and gloat
    over America and the rest of the world. I see much of the world, resentful and
    envious of the US. Whether that envy is rationally merited is another issue,
    but thats what I see, or focus on.
        
        

        

        
        



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