What's wrong with America???????

What's wrong with America???????
Firstly.... no one can accuse me of being xenophobic or generalising because everything i state in the following is fact, and you can easily look it up yourself.

Why are Americans so proud to be American?

In a country that boasts to be the most powerful and richest in the world.... why are its citizens only entitled to health treatment in a hospital if they can afford the extortionate medial insurance fees? All countries in Europe have free medical health systems (over 70% of which are in the top 95% in the world) which have proven to work perfectly well for the last 50 years or so, depspite America saying it would never work. Many surveys have shown that 40% of all Americans live without health insurance because they can't afford it, or if they can afford it they are unable to get it because they have straightforward medical conditions such as diabetes or asthma (I think there are about 200 basic medical conditions that exclude people from being eligible for medical cover). Basically, if you can't afford the medical insurance.... the government leave you to die.............. even if you are a fireman working as a volunteer at the world trade centre and later develop fatal health conditions as a result

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_arising_from_the_September_11_attacks


A privatised education system which leaves an embarrassing amount of school leavers (2 million per year) illiterate and innumerate:

http://education-portal.com/articles/Grim_Illiteracy_Statistics_Indicate_Americans_Have_a_Reading_Problem.html

The rest of the western world figured out 60 years ago that privatisation doesn't work..... but the U.S. government insists it does, and insists on telling its citizens it does..... (or are they more concerned about which sponsors for their state schools will pay the highest contract fees, so that they make more money and the citizens see no rewards)?

Richest country in the world?

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/04/poverty_numbers.html

then why are 38 million people or 14% of the population living below the poverty line (Highest in the western world)....... number 2 in the list of countries in the western world is Spain (which until 15 years ago was still considered a 3rd world country), hot on Americas heels with 4%.

I find it hard to understand why Americans are so patriotic and proud to be Americans when their government treats them like rubbish and they insist they are the best country in the world, and why they take great pride in telling Europeans how much better they have it over there than here.

From endless comments from places.... the classic one being Youtube is the sense that Americans are insecure and feel threatened by other places in Europe and the western world that the only thing they can do is throw abuse and rude comments to other people telling them they are worthless, wrong, and inferior........ despite inexhaustable evidence to prove the contrary.

Answer by Yellowstonedogs
Individually (and generally) they are a nation of people who want everything NOW, they don't want to put in the hard work and the time needed to acquire it.

But they are not the only nation who have people like it either!

As a nation they ARE patriotic to the very core and I admire that.

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