Quote Originally Posted by Binzhoubum
真的! True!

But America DOES have checks and balances that many other countries do not have...

FOR EXAMPLE, I currently live in a country that blocks GOOGLE on a REGULAR basis...WIKIPEDIA.COM is always blocked...and if you search news in the local language that has the slightest possibility of being "anti-government" it will be censored...

IF it isn't blocked, it's tracked....LOL...:smokin:

America does have serious problems....AND I don't plan on going back anytime soon...I am just an expat who is trying to point out the fact that Americans bitch too much about their situation...(which is exactly what needs to be done :thumbsup

If you don't like America, then you should try somewhere else...I am not trying to sound like my grandman or anything here. I don't mean to sound like some Conservative....(because I am most certainly not! :stoned....I just mean to say that if you want to talk about any other country you should definitely at least have a year or two of world travel under your belt. :thumbsup:

PEACE! :smokin:
Man, I love America, I dont want it to continue to change into a police state. Checks and balances are only usefull if they are actually applied. Case in point the patriot act which nulifies many checks and balances we are supposed to have to protect our citizens from its government.

History dictates that the average age of a democracy is 200 years which America is over the average right now, next step is dictatorship, history has proven this over and over again.

I do have several years of travel under my belt, and ive seen how people live in other countries, we have it very very good here as far as a standard of liveing. No argement from me there.

I for one am very thankfull to have critical thinking people keeping an eye on things, I only wish I had more information to think more critically on.