U.S.A. is the greatest country in the world, period.

a 16 year old, right wing point of view on why

The United States has been around for less time than an average european house, but in that short time it has become the unrivaled world " Super Power". Now of course I am sure that everyone reading this must be getting a bit on the defensive side, but in all honesty I think if everyone keeps an open mind about my article, they could find it interesting.

Lets see if I can nudge in a few opinions without the lefties getting too angry. For one, who in the right mind can argue the fact that in the u.s. we enjoy more freedome and safety than in any other country in the world. NOT an opinion, just a fact. Second of all, lets get past the age old argument of " Well look at all the wars the u.s. starts, there so evil!!". For one, the u.s. spends more money on humanitarian aid and free traid programs than any other country in the world. For some people the war in Iraq might have been an evil thing with nothing but bad results, but the people of Iraq are 100 times better off how they are now, than a year or two ago. That itself is such an honorable thing for the u.s. to undertake, just as we did in ww2, Vietanam, Korea, Bosnia, so on and so forth. It sickens me to know that there are people in the world that can say what the united states does is unjustified. Now away from the long draged out war, that will be over for the best in a couple of months. Sad that people out there won't have anything left to complain about.

If you look over the centuries, the united states has been the leader in almost everything: Entertainment, science, living standard, so on and so forth. If you go to other countries in the world, English is almost always a required class in school. While no other languages from the world are required in our class rooms. why is that?? Wonder. Now the fact that the united states is always looked upon, has led me to believe in the "jealousy theory". What does that mean? an example. Your neighbor buys a brand new mercedes, and you are very jealous. Now you dont say anything because you dont want to be openly jealous, at least not just then. But, inside you hope things like " man, I bet itll breakdown, then I'll be able to laugh." Now the next day your neighbor comes home, and just as you hoped, the car broke down. The first thing your going to do is take a look at your 1975 nova and go " We showed him, I dont need a new car, your even better than a mercedes." In a few days the car is fixed, it was a problem at the dealership, but of course you keep going around saying, "my car is better than a Mercedes."

Now just like in the story, so is the rest of the world. The u.s., with its new car freshness, is envied buy the entire world. And because of that, everyone watches for the little breakdowns, but never pays attention to the years and years that it runs like a puma. For example, when the british were still hopefull about there mars lander, they were all saying " well at least its us for once and not the americans." Now why would anyone say that unless they were envious the entire time of the u.s. But this is not a new scene to the world, it has been repeated and repeated through out the years, and still the u.s. pushes ahead, and no one will ever be able to stop it.....
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Japanese cars rock!!! American muscle cars Rule!!!!! but Filipino jeeps live forever!!! hahahah =)
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Japanese cars rock!!! American muscle cars Rule!!!!! but Filipino jeeps lives forever!!! hahahah =)
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Yes, your keeping up with the Jones’s analogy may be an astute observation, everyone must be the king of the mountain, and if they are not, they will hold a grudge about it and exhibit petty jealousies, along with childish school yard banter. 1970s Novas are classic muscle cars, I don’t know how good a selection of crappy car that was, you should have picked a Dodge astrovan or some real garbage thing, Novas didn’t sell to good in Latin countries because Nova actually means it doesn’t go, another example of shooting yourself in the foot with arbitrary marketing without consultations of gurus.
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Those were some pretty random comments... I enjoyed them.

~Dan
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Sorry.. I had to say it...

have you ever been or lived anywhere else?

'in the u.s. we enjoy more freedome and safety than in any other country in the world. NOT an opinion, just a fact'

sorry dude, i hate to say it, but that is an opinion. what do you think freedom is? have you ever seen enemy of the state with will smith? you know your social sec. number is used to track your every move? mayby its a kook theory, but maybe it isn't as well...

Also, i think you would really like it in Australia... as far as i 'guess' socially we are not very far apart at all... only we are not 'envied' by the rest of the world and we dont have the murder rate you guys have either.

Oh yeah - Jap cars r00lz ;)

Peace out.
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side note... i just thought to myself... Australia is only safe cause we are buddied up with the US and UK...

hmmm... carry on.
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Boy, never forget the message delivered by the movie Spiderman

"With great powers came great responsibility"

Few corrections:
america began to be really powerfull between the 2 world wars. Less than 80 year.
if you compare safety between EU and US you will realised that violence is by far less in EU. The only countries that match US for violent death is China.

China who is going to be the next master of the world ....

Be ready to see your children learning chinese.

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lol china will never overtake the usa. sorry man but if you didnt know, even if china kept up its current rate of growth, (which it cant because it fails to turn all of its profits into new investments), it would take 50 years just for it to match american economy, let alone overtake it. The usa will always be the greatest. And as for the EU, I am sure that in 50 years they will be broke, have only old people, and be in chaos.
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hellogoodbye82888, lol, ur a funny kid. Jepel is right about US only being a world power for a short time. Its more of WW1 period that US becomes a world power, not between WW1 and WW2. China will never overtake US, simply because it is a communist nation with a population it can not support. Europe is trying to create something good by uniting which could someday push the world into becoming one great nation instead of many. There are things that they are doing wrong about it however. UN and UE are both working same way, with few selected nations trying to govern all other, and thats wrong.

Oh and back to the post that 16 year old made, if you go to a developing nation, you have much more freedom, as the government is less powerful.
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Ok, i live in England (europe), and I have t say that your talkinhg bullshit. More freedom? What freedom do you have that i dont? I can be any faith i want in this country, yet when iu went on holiday to Texas, and i mentioned i was an aethiest, i was told to get out of the bar! Ad what about Martin sheen? Says he doesnt agree with ure illegal war in Iraq, and he's nearly hounded off the west wing! Your only the most poweferul because of your natural minerals, and the fact that you spend more on your miliatry than you do on social security. China doesnt want to support its population, and it will one day overtake America. America is going through what the European powers went through 100 years ago. It wont last forever, your economy is in a state, one day you will fall. No country is the most powerful forever.
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Yes, his claim that America will last *forever* shows you just how unbelievable the extent of his delusion is.
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Also, you should talk more about your personal achievements. Less hiding behind abstract entities such as "America," which are comprised of hundreds of millions of morons.