My
Country
Philosophies
and ideologies aside, probably the greatest determiner of one’s quality of life
is the country or nation in which one is born and raised. My country is the
United States of America and I must tell you. I think it is the greatest country
in the world (I confess. I have only visited three other countries [Japan six
years after WWII, Korea during the Korean War, and Canada–I once visited
Niagara Falls]). I think it is the greatest, my government tells me it is the
greatest; and, therefore, it must be the greatest–I believe that. Politically,
we are a democratic republic (are we?); economically, we are capitalistic and
believe in a free market (really?); in terms of standard of living, we consist
of 5% of the world’s population and consume 25% of the world’s production–all
other countries of the world considered, that’s a really big piece of the total
pie in spite of today’s economic condition; morally, well, as I said in the
beginning, “philosophies and ideologies aside”. In total, my observations are
that in all of these areas, we are going downhill rapidly. Will we come back?
That is in the hands of you the people. Do you remember? “We are a government
of the people, by the people, and for the people”.
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