[Sangetsu]

Another rant about how bad America is given by a person who, had he grown up in the 60% of the rest of the wolrld which earns less than $2 a day, would be telling us what a wonderful place America is.

Politics and business have gone hand-in-hand since the time of Plato (who lived and died long before Reagan and Bush were born), and is not a recent phenomena.

I can imagine the OP sitting in his bedroom or living room typing his post on his own PC, which incidentally costs more than what most people in the world make in 2 years. Rather than be thankful for living in a country where he enjoys daily what many other people can only dream of, he has the nerve to tell everyone what a lousy country he lives in.

If you dislike America so much, you can probably find more than 2 billion volunteers who would cut off one of their own limbs to trade places with you.

In case you are unaware, the top 1% of wage earners in America pay more than 50% of tax collected. Not to mention that most of these rich people weren't born rich, they became rich by running businesses which employ other Americans, and thus contribute more than a little to the country in which they live.

If you think America's political/business system is bad, Japan's is a Greek tragedy in comparison, where bureaucratic mandarins control both politics and business, and have driven the entire economy to the edge of an abyss far deeper than that which America has so far dug for itself.

Stop being stupid! America's greatest failing is the churning out of semi-literate fools who criticize a world which they know nothing about.