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Nice idea........But the reality is now where near the picture that you paint.
If it was the USA would be the safest place on earth, and it isn't.
Take a hard look at the stats, if you want a dose of reality. Your country has a terrible record, when it comes to formal education, for your poorest people. A literacy rate that should be an embarrassment to a "first world country " and a history of neglect that is right there for all to see, who are not living with their heads underground.
Your family may be wonder full and educated. What about the rest of your nation's young people ? The ones that I see when I am travelling in your country. The ones working in minimum wage jobs, who are loosing their teeth, in their 20's, due to no dental care ? Or the ones who can't GET a job, and are living in a homeless shelter ? Or the ones who are facing the choice, of joining the US military, to become a "grunt " because the US economy is so bad ? Many of your military families are having to use food stamps, to get by.
For every young American that was able to go to a University, there are DOZENS of others who will never see the inside of a campus, unless they are working there as a janitor, or a parking lot attendant. Or they are grinding out a 40 hour a week sentence, on a assembly line somewhere.
My point is simple. Your country has failed many of your own citizens, who are poor and uneducated and stuck in the bottom level of your society. To them, the "American Dream " is a joke. No wonder so many of them are smoking crack or meth, to escape the reality of their existence. America is the biggest illicit drug market in the world. Ever wonder why that is ?
Jim B.
Toronto.
So Canada has no drug addicts? It's true that many Americans are nothing but meth addicts and potheads and not very ambitious to work.
As for missing teeth in youth, a toothbrush and toothpaste and brushing after each and every meal or snack will prevent that better than anything but cost less than $3. Meth destroys the teeth faster than anything, there is no point in providing expensive dental care to methheads.
personally i make some of those very comments, but i also realize that kids today are just like kids when we were growing up. they have a lot to learn, are stubborn, and think they are indestructible, as well as all knowing. sometimes reality hits them early, sometimes late, sometimes not at all. for the most part they will learn the same lessons we did growing up, hopefully not with as much pain as some of us had when we were growing up.
Honestly, since the dancing reference came most probably from my post... I think that some of them may finally come around faster than most. The reason I say this... when we we're young, we thought we could change the world too. That's why Obama's hope and change propaganda worked so well on them. We believed we could "change"... they do too. But now... even that oh so liberal boy that I raised, is already getting a taste of the real world, and realizing that while dreams of a perfect utopia is a wonderful ideal... that reality is that it isn't going to happen, he can't "change" anything, and that sometimes much like dear ole stodgy republican Mom, you gotta ask, "Who's paying for it?"
Granted.. yes.. he and my yet unborn grandchildren are going to pay... but at the same time, what can I do about it... I still can't "change" anything.....
What? I never thought I could change the world when I was a kid..........well young person. I never even thought about "changing America" or all the BS the great leader throws out. Maybe that is the problem. Shut up government and let folks live their lives. What a novel concept. It is right there in the big paper that liberals despise.
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