America is amazing, now get out!

For anyone who happens to come to this page and read what I have to say, this may offend you and rub you the wrong way, but I'm feeling the need to say it.

GET A LIFE AMERICA!

I have spent my entire life listening to everyone here tell me that America is the greatest country in the world, like it's a sports team and our rivals should burn in a fiery pit of hell. I believed it for awhile, but as I got older and started paying attention to what was happening around me, I found I disagreed. I don't agree that we are the best... anymore. We're selfish and arrogant and filled with demands for other countries that don't want/need our help.

We boss everyone else around when we won't even help feed our own hungry, we won't be completely fair to women and "minorities," and we refuse to make sure that minimum wage *actually* covers the needs of our workers. We care more about left and right battles than actually helping our sick and making sure they can afford their bills. We run our workers into the ground, make them lose their jobs, and then completely ignore them because they're too "lazy to get a job" or just "take a job that makes less than you were making" because "hey, at least it's a job!"

We tax the shit out of the people that make less, and allow the top 10% of the country to pocket the rest and avoid paying taxes. We allow politicians to cry their position into law and the penalize the ones that actually stand up for Americans and their real needs. We turn our backs on the people who risk our lives for us because Britney Spears is having a breakdown again and Bristol Palin is pregnant with her third child.

So I'm tired of it and I think this country should go to hell. We are *not* better than every other country and until we can practice what we preach, then we are going to have to deal with that and accept it. Stop licking your non-existent wounds people! When other countries laugh at us, it's because we have put them in a position to be able to!