sports_fan
Footballguy
Damn near every store has a membership card now. I hate constantly being asked to sign up every time I checkout. "You could have saved $4.23 if you were a member." I don't give a ####. Stop asking me.
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What is your biggest problem with the USA (1 Viewer)
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spreagle
Footballguy
When you drive across the country, every small town looks exactly the same, same fast food places, big box stores, even the newer houses look the same. Missed the exit for gas, no problem, an exact replica town is just 5 miles down the road. Then back on the road where all the cars look the same. I don't know what it means but I think all the copying and replication is a sign that we've lost the willingness to take risks being different.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
You are reading too much into it. It's just timing and cost effectiveness. The towns were built close in time and in an age of mass media and corporations. It's not like a small European town that was built and rebuilt over the course of 800 years.
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Too many damn vampires.
Chaka
Footballguy
Brunell4MVP
Footballguy
Big government.
Many things mentioned about this country are bad, but none will destroy it. But big government will. As a DC native, over my life I've seen what I'd already call big government become completely uncontrollable waste. It will be the downfall of this country, and that is sad. I'd say over 50% of the people that work for the US government are a waste of space. 50% of the contractors are doing business for the US government that is unnecessary. Our Government employees are essentially on a welfare system that paid for by taxing us and is protected by their union. It costs us trillions of dollars. Even if a president wanted to reduce government, there are so many factions in Congress, the country, society, etc. that it's un-reversible. Many great nations become less relevant or even disappear from bureaucracy. I'm pretty sure the US is well on it's way down the same path.
Many things mentioned about this country are bad, but none will destroy it. But big government will. As a DC native, over my life I've seen what I'd already call big government become completely uncontrollable waste. It will be the downfall of this country, and that is sad. I'd say over 50% of the people that work for the US government are a waste of space. 50% of the contractors are doing business for the US government that is unnecessary. Our Government employees are essentially on a welfare system that paid for by taxing us and is protected by their union. It costs us trillions of dollars. Even if a president wanted to reduce government, there are so many factions in Congress, the country, society, etc. that it's un-reversible. Many great nations become less relevant or even disappear from bureaucracy. I'm pretty sure the US is well on it's way down the same path.
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Old people.BobbyLayne said:
The Commish
Footballguy
government being a "job" now instead of a duty.
Cjw_55106
Footballguy
Of all the problems this country has, this is your biggest problem with the US?
NutterButter
Footballguy
Emoticoned like someone who's never felt the crushing, oppressive boot heel of the Civil Rights Act.Christo said:
Spoken like someone who's never felt the crushing, oppressive boot heel of blue laws. Damn those religious bastards not letting me drink on Sunday morning!Emoticoned like someone who's never felt the crushing, oppressive boot heel of the Civil Rights Act.Christo said:
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
30% of federal employees are represented by a union. Would you consider that entire lot on welfare or do you have an agency breakdown that might be easier to digest? 70% at FBI? 43% at State Department? What is the Pentagon and Department of Health and Human Services breakdown?
Man, zinged by my own petard.Spoken like someone who's never felt the crushing, oppressive boot heel of blue laws. Damn those religious bastards not letting me drink on Sunday morning!Emoticoned like someone who's never felt the crushing, oppressive boot heel of the Civil Rights Act.Christo said:
Now don't I feel silly for being the one to bring nonsensical reference to irrelevant legislation into this.
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Franknbeans
Footballguy
the obesity
Jeff Vader
Footballguy
Worse than this is how so many companies think it's cool to ask for your personal info just because you bought something from them. And even more insane is how many window-licking goobers mindlessly hand over their address, phone number, and email just because they bought a $2 Gatorade at #####.
McGarnicle
Footballguy
The women here complain that my penis is too big and it hurts them. I didn't have this problem when I lived in Samoa.
People thinking their side does no wrong while everyone else is never right.
Man, zinged by my own petard.Spoken like someone who's never felt the crushing, oppressive boot heel of blue laws. Damn those religious bastards not letting me drink on Sunday morning!Emoticoned like someone who's never felt the crushing, oppressive boot heel of the Civil Rights Act.Christo said:
Now don't I feel silly for being the one to bring nonsensical reference to irrelevant legislation into this.
Gachi
Footballguy
One of the biggest issues we have as a country is that we don't value local government enough. People only care the president, it's really annoying.
I'm from a very small town, the school system is failing, the roads are mess, the cops are corrupt. Everybody complains yet nobody does anything. You really think Obama cares about Bum####, Texas?
If people want real change they have to do it themselves and stop expecting somebody else to it.
I'm from a very small town, the school system is failing, the roads are mess, the cops are corrupt. Everybody complains yet nobody does anything. You really think Obama cares about Bum####, Texas?
If people want real change they have to do it themselves and stop expecting somebody else to it.
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
Women drivers.
Mark Davis
Footballguy
Attorneys
NutterButter
Footballguy
Doesn't help that a lot of the politicians writing the laws are attorneys. Its actually a beautifully self-serving system your kind has created.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Exactly, I hate when people blame the government. The people are the government, blame the citizens if you are mad about something politically.
spreagle
Footballguy
In or off the interstate, "sameness" is at the root of my biggest problem with the USA. When everyone starts looking and acting same, we have a huge problem. It basically means everyone is wrong.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Then the whole world is wrong because America is about as diverse as it gets on this planet.
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
AAABatteries
Footballguy
NutterButter
Footballguy
Are we still operating under the notion that citizens are capable of making intelligent decisions?
NutterButter
Footballguy
Thus, my initial post.
What are you babbling about? I'm not the one complaining. And I'm not the one making the laws.
NutterButter
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
People who make a career out of being in government, or at least politics.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
NutterButter
Footballguy
If by "exploiting" you mean keeping banks from foreclosing on my clients' homes or keeping landlords from evicting my clients from their homes or suing car dealerships for selling my clients cars with rewound odometers or any number of situations where non-lawyers ####ed over my clients then I guess that's what I do.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
NutterButter
Footballguy
Not sure how getting thrown out of a residence you don't pay for is somehow getting ####ed over
NutterButter
Footballguy
There's always been access to information. Now there's just too much with way too much of it being misleading.
