Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 15:59 +0100, Graham Anderson wrote:
> On Saturday 03 June 2006 13:36, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > People envy the US for its wealthy and prosperity.
> 
> How deluded you truly are, mostly the rest of world are rather bemused why so 
> many Americans keep buying in to this "we are number one!" crap. 
> 
> It's rather an anomaly that the U.S. has had the strongest economy for the 
> last century. Throughout history the largest economy, and by implication, 
> wealthiest nation was China. If current economic figures are accurate China 
> will overtake the U.S. and reclaim it's position as the worlds largest 
> economy sometime around 2010-2015, if not sooner. I'm sure you can figure out 
> the implications for the U.S. , the rest of the world sure has ;)
> 
> This is not a "bash America" rant, I'm just merely pointing out that it's a 
> common misconception by many Americans that the world envies them. We really 
> don't.
> 
> And if you *still* truly believe the rest of the world is envious of the U.S. 
> have a look at these figures and then ask yourself why would any other nation 
> or people be envious...
The freedoms that we enjoy like calling out president an asshole and not
being jailed for it.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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