Is America the best country in the world?

[SpAmRaY]

Is America the best country in the world?

Obviously

[katushkin]

[demik]

Nah too many Mexicans taking our jobs.

[paicrai]

Everywhere is a diffrent shade of ****.

lol

[cmadrid]

Nah too many Mexicans taking our jobs.

[whizzard]

-States agreeing to keep the prison system above 90% capacity constantly, resulting in people being arrested & imprisoned for FAR longer than they should be for BEYOND petty crimes. This is all in the name of profit for those who own the prisons, prisoners are worked like slaves for companies such as Microsoft, Nike, Apple, etc.

I am glad that more people are noticing this.  The prisons have become out of control money makers, and there have been many cases of Judges being corrupted by "gifts" for filling them up.  Why does America have more people imprisoned than any other country yet claim to be a beacon of freedom?  Is America just full of law breakers?  This is a major problem, and it is never talked about by the media.  The court system is not about justice.. it is about one thing... MONEY.  I think just about the worst thing you can do to a human being is put them in a cage and stripping them of a few years of their life,  in a lifetime that is relatively short.  If you ask me locking someone up for petty crime is cruel and unusual punishment.  Even not paying a speeding ticket can land you in jail eventually if not taken care of. 

It worries me that building, staffing, and running prisons is done by private businesses... we are just asking for it.  More and more are built every day.  And sentences seem to be handed out so flippantly by the courts.  They let poor people who can't afford a defense feel like they are getting a deal if they cop a plea and let them lock them up for an arbitrary time over a small offense... while people who can afford it get let go all the time.  As far as the forced labor... I guess you reap what you sew... almost everything in Walmart is made by an imprisoned Chinese person,  looks like the Chinese model is coming on over to the US. 

I don't like to get political on forums because it just ends up badly... but I was just happy that this is starting to get some attention.  More people need to speak up about our chock full prisons.

[jacobolus]

Pretty much all the problems in the US boil down to 3 things:
1. Too much money in politics
2. As a corrollary to #1, too much corporate power, including horrible regulatory capture, defanging of most regulatory agencies in the past few decades, and few institutions standing up for workers needs or general human needs
3. A really ****ty media / advertising culture that has turned everyone into zombie consumers with no empathy (a bit exaggerated maybe, but only a bit)

[iri]

Switzerland might be expensive, but people earn a lot there. And I will move there in a blink of an eye. Anyone in Ticino want to hire me? I can write software

[steve.v]

i'd rather live in the states than in the middle east, yeah.

America sucks

I'd rather live in Canada

move then.

No need to force anyone; they have a choice.

[iri]

i'd rather live in the states than in the middle east, yeah.

America sucks

I'd rather live in Canada

move then.

No need to force anyone; they have a choice.

i'll show up in your dreams and force you to get a giant pink dildo.

[paicrai]

speaking of dildos

[cmadrid]

Speaking of the keeping prisons full problem...  Who wants to bet this is the ONLY judge that has done this?


http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/23/pennsylvania.corrupt.judges/



Ciavarella, 58, along with Conahan, 56, corruptly and fraudulently "created the potential for an increased number of juvenile offenders to be sent to juvenile detention facilities," federal court documents alleged. Children would be placed in private detention centers, under contract with the court, to increase the head count. In exchange, the two judges would receive kickbacks.

[tbc]

America sucks

I'd rather live in Canada

you don't know what you're getting into....

Canada still technically includes Quebec, one of the most whiny populations on earth, especially their students.

[drewba]

The Newsroom - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore:

It's just a TV show and I've read an article or two that debunk some of the facts but this clip captures what I sort of feel about 'Merica.

EDIT: oops, the1onewolf beat me to the link on page 1