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Old 01-11-2013, 02:24 PM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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If you find the United States is fundamentally flawed, what other nation should we emulate?
(NOTE: I am not saying "America: Love it or leave it! I am simply asking what other nation is your idea of what the United States should be).

Example - You think "neo-cons" are a nefarious influence in the U.S. What nation(s) have no neo-con influences?
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Old 01-11-2013, 02:26 PM
 
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If you find the United States is fundamentally flawed, what other nation should we emulate?
(NOTE: I am not saying "America: Love it or leave it! I am simply asking what other nation is your idea of what the United States should be).

Example - You think "neo-cons" are a nefarious influence in the U.S. What nation(s) have no neo-con influences?
The US should be itself. It was a world leader when it came to the New Deal, no other nation had New Deal programs, and that is pure American ideology, not imported from Europe like Keynesianism, Austrianism, Socialism, etc.
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Old 01-11-2013, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Baldock, hertfordshire, England
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None.

America is supposed about freedom.

Let other nations obsess about life expectancy, infant mortality, literacy and all the other excuses govt uses to take away freedom.
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Old 01-11-2013, 03:55 PM
 
Location: M I N N E S O T A
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None.
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Old 01-11-2013, 03:56 PM
 
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An improved United States.
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Old 01-11-2013, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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The Roman Republic. That's what the Founding Fathers were emulating when they made up this country in the first place.

We are gonna need more slaves though... and some togas.
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Old 01-11-2013, 04:07 PM
 
Location: OCEAN BREEZES AND VIEWS SAN CLEMENTE
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None, what Nation can't find improvement in the things it most needs to improve.

We the United States of America, should emulate no other Country, but mistakes or not, be who we are.

There are still Countries, who hate us because of this very reason, of who we are.
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Old 01-11-2013, 04:07 PM
 
Location: Old Town Alexandria
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The US should be itself. It was a world leader when it came to the New Deal, no other nation had New Deal programs, and that is pure American ideology, not imported from Europe like Keynesianism, Austrianism, Socialism, etc.

It was fine until Project for a New America century/PNAC

According to Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, "The U.S. military is increasingly being converted into a global oil protection service." Plans are being laid to wage war "to preemptively take control" of "a 'non-integrating gap' in the world that is resisting corporate globalization" so "the U.S. can 'manage' the global distribution of resources, people, energy and money." The "gap" nations happen to be in the world's key oil-producing regions.

Gagnon's article focuses on the writings and teachings of Thomas Barnett, a professor at the Navy War College, author of the book The Pentagon's New Map, and Donald Rumsfeld's "strategy guy," as Gagnon puts it.

Gagnon reports that Barnett "argues that the days of arms talks and international treaties are over" and that BARNETT RECENTLY REMINDED A MILITARY AUDIENCE THAT HITLER "NEVER ASKED FOR PERMISSION BEFORE INVADING OTHER COUNTRIES."
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Old 01-11-2013, 04:28 PM
 
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None, what Nation can't find improvement in the things it most needs to improve.

We the United States of America, should emulate no other Country, but mistakes or not, be who we are.

There are still Countries, who hate us because of this very reason, of who we are.
I agree...DO try to catch up everyone else.....^^




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