Take a deep breath...

I'd be curious to hear why you think America is still great. On this board even there's been talk of America being in decline and we'll never be great again and we're becoming a second world country and many other nations are passing us in a broad number of categories. Why do we deserve the label of great?

America is great. We are not the only great nation, but we are great. If you want me to quantify that for you it will be a task because htere are 1000's of examples. I guess if you boil it down we are one of the best when it comes to class mobility, meaning that its still possable to be born into a lower class and make it to a higher one. Our universal education is one of the most all encompassing in the world, very few are left out. This is all accomplished in a huge nation with great diversity.

Sure Sweeden is able to accomplish much of what we are able to accomplish, but thats a nation with long standing wealth that has stayed out of almost all major conflict and has very little immigration of families and cultures that start from scratch. If you look at where our people came from and the lack of wealth that we started with and what we have now, its amazing.

Our best days are still ahead of us, especally if we can stay out unnecessary forign entanglements and foster good will amung the world of nations without trying to dominate them. If we can prevent a dominant wealthy class that is able to hold its wealth not by hard work but by inheritance, if we can continue to create an enviroment where your intelegence and work ethic dictate where you are in society as opposed to an enviroment that allows you to be where you are in society because of who your parents were.
 
America is still great, just not the greatest country in the world anymore!

When were we the greatest? By what standard? I am sure there are some standards that have put us as the greatest for periods of time, some that have not. We have been amung the greatest since the years just after the Civil War. We remain of the greatest, others include Sweeden, Switzerland, Great Britton, Japan, Germany, France, Cannada, India, Australia, Denmark, Norway, Im sure I am missing some.
 
I'd be curious to hear why you think America is still great. On this board even there's been talk of America being in decline and we'll never be great again and we're becoming a second world country and many other nations are passing us in a broad number of categories. Why do we deserve the label of great?
Can you please specifiy who has state that our country is in a State of decline?

Conservatives have been saying that about our country since the Revolution but who pays any attention to them, right?
 
Some will be disappointed but...

The revolution is not upon us.
The world is not ending.
America is still great.
Unemployment is going down, not up.
The dollar is getting stronger.
The stock market is rising.
Inflation is under control.
Home prices are going up.
New Homes are being started.
Guns are not being confiscated.
The 2nd Amendment is not being repealed.
Wars are ending, not begining.
Rights and freedoms are increasing.

Republican hate is up.
Republican fear is up.
Republican judgement is up.
Republican Math is at an all time high.

What parallel universe do you live in???lol

America is still great??? According to who? Americans?lol The dollar is getting stronger?? As the stock markets rise, so does poverty in the land. I think most of this stuff you wrote is delusional at best.
 
What parallel universe do you live in???lol

America is still great??? According to who? Americans?lol The dollar is getting stronger?? As the stock markets rise, so does poverty in the land. I think most of this stuff you wrote is delusional at best.

Let me guess, Rove's math makes perfect sense to you? Right?
 
Rove is an idiot. Is this Rove's math or yours? Whose ever it is, is not supported by reality. The American economy as it stands today is on a down slide.

The American economy is slowly gaining, while most of the rest of the industuralized world is not.
 
The American economy is slowly gaining, while most of the rest of the industuralized world is not.

lol. You are greatly mistaken. Other countries are moving away from the US market and moving away from the US default currency. It's only a mater of time. The USA may wage a few bogus wars to keep its economy going like GWB did, but it's goose/eagle is cooked. They are already talking about another stimulus.lol
 
lol. You are greatly mistaken. Other countries are moving away from the US market and moving away from the US default currency. It's only a mater of time. The USA may wage a few bogus wars to keep its economy going like GWB did, but it's goose/eagle is cooked. They are already talking about another stimulus.lol

1) Who is 'moving away' from the US dollar being the reserve currency?
2) What currency is going to replace the US dollar as the reserve?

3) What countries are moving away from the largest economy in the world?
 
lol... funny, didn't you say in your OP the dollar was getting stronger? you just realized what that chart really shows, didn't you?

It is getting stronger, the euro is not the only standard, previously it was falling aginst the Euro.
 
It is getting stronger, the euro is not the only standard, previously it was falling aginst the Euro.

It is the primary comparison Jarod. It is not getting stronger, it has been getting weaker of late. The other currencies the dollar is generally compared to are the Yen and the British pound sterling.

Only against the Yen has the dollar shown strength of late.
 
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