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.
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