What has America become?

[DOMS]

it is but every day it gets worst and worst, the only way to correct bad legislation is to reverse that legislation. can't remember when the last time that was done in the US.

No argument there.

you don't see any other country making a new "industry" out of incarcerating people for marijuana offenses

China harvests the organs from people it executes in its prisons. In Singapore, they just kill them. "Narcotics laws established by the Misuse of Drugs Act are very strict. Anyone caught with more than 15 grams (0.53 oz) of heroin (diamorphine), 30 grams (1.1 oz) of cocaine or morphine, 250 grams (8.8 oz) of methamphetamine, or 500 grams (18 oz) of cannabis faces mandatory capital punishment, as they are deemed to be trafficking in these substances."

you don't see any other country where it's police force routinely kills it's own citizens

China, Iran, DR Congo, Nigeria, Kenya, NK, Cambodia, Mexico, Guatemala, Russia, and a many, many other countries. Hell, it wasn't all that long ago that the Brazilian police would gun down the orphans because there were so many.

Also, while there are no definitive numbers, it's estimated that 200 people (in a nation of 311,000,000 people) were killed by police in 2011. Basic understanding of race and a crime in the USA would indicate that a goodly amount of those were Mexican nationals.

Not that I'm defending police. I'm putting things back into proportion and removing the sensationalism.

and you definitely don't see any other country preparing to suspend the constitution of that country for protection against an invisible and manufactured enemy by one of our own "security" agency's.

Many other countries have nothing like the Constitution to suspend. But yeah, that's pretty bad.

in another 100 years the US of today will be nothing but a distant memory, at best it will be like the 1800's at worst something more like a scene from Escape from New York.

Good luck with that bit of prognostication.

 

[rvp12Bet]

I don't know. Let's time answer this question hah?

 

[KelJu]

I have seen that chain e-mail floating around, and I wish for nuclear winter everything I see it pop back up again. I wouldn't know where to begin with explaining how much is wrong with that piece of shit.

 

[hoyle21]

If that's the Tawas City I'm thinking of it is pretty much the bible belt /welfare capital of Michigan. Median income is probably around 23,000.


There are some retirees with money though.