[PandaBear!]

Originally Posted by BEERfortheBEAR

The United Kingdom. Bunch of assholes, if you ask me. Taxin' without representin'...

How 'bout you gargle my British marbles, homeboy...


LOL JK

[OldJersey]

Originally Posted by zachff

Definitely not man, even if you put "third world" countries aside. Just off the top of my head in 30 seconds: places like Greece, Mexico, Venezuela, Russia and Brazil are in much worse shape than the US, and none of them (Venezuela arguable) are "third world."

Things may be relatively bad here in the US but comparatively forget about it.

It's just that it sadly isn't crazy to consider. You're right we aren't in the top 5 but 'relatively bad' is putting it lightly if you ask me. There are definitely countries worse off, but man things are really fucking historically bad in this country right now. I more or less made the statement to see what others thought, but yeah I wouldn't necessarily put America in top 5 but its not far fetched.

[OldJersey]

Originally Posted by ellie117

I live with a guy who is so anti-US and hates the government and thinks this country is incredibly corrupt [and yet accepts an unemployment check every month] so finally after being so fed up with all his 9/11 conspiracy theory garbage I finally yelled "THEN LEAVE THE COUNTRY." And he couldn't think of a better place to go.

Sure we've got our problems, but there are very few countries I'd rather live in, if any.

I am by absolutely no means one of those uneducated, fuck the man, the government is hiding things conspiracists. I just simply have a high interest in politics and current events .

[SomedayTheFire]

Ireland :jayz:

[Jake Gyllenhaal]

Rand McNally, where they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.

[anamericangod]

Somalia is the worst.

[OldJersey]

Originally Posted by MonopolyMan

livin paycheck to paycheck aint so nice at the moment...where would you want to be besides jersey right now?

England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Australia hell i'd even go to Canada at this moment.

[sjb2k1]

Originally Posted by Jake Gyllenhaal

Rand McNally, where they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.

[Fame<Infamy]

Originally Posted by SomedayTheFire

Ireland :jayz:

Northern*

[ellie117]

Originally Posted by OldJersey

I am by absolutely no means one of those uneducated, fuck the man, the government is hiding things conspiracists. I just simply have a high interest in politics and current events .

Apologies if you thought I was insinuating you were any sort of uneducated, that was not my intent at all.

[zachff]

Originally Posted by OldJersey

It's just that it sadly isn't crazy to consider. You're right we aren't in the top 5 but 'relatively bad' is putting it lightly if you ask me. There are definitely countries worse off, but man things are really fucking historically bad in this country right now. I more or less made the statement to see what others thought, but yeah I wouldn't necessarily put America in top 5 but its not far fetched.

I'm still going to argue with you there. Things are relatively bad historically here from an unemployment, deficit, politically divided standpoint but there are no wars on our soil, people aren't starving anywhere near Great Depression levels, etc etc.

Shit may seem especially bad here, but that's what you get from the media perspective of someone who LIVES here. Even at our relative low right now we're still far, far ahead of the vast majority of first and second world countries.

[OldJersey]

Originally Posted by ellie117

Apologies if you thought I was insinuating you were any sort of uneducated, that was not my intent at all.

Haha I didn't really think you were, but I just wanted to make sure because I fucking hate people that are like that.

[_veges_]

As much as I would love to say the US there are much worse places. Like North Korea, Ivory Coast, Libya, Somalia, etc.

[OldJersey]

Originally Posted by zachff

I'm still going to argue with you there. Things are relatively bad historically here from an unemployment, deficit, politically divided standpoint but there are no wars on our soil, people aren't starving anywhere near Great Depression levels, etc etc.

Shit may seem especially bad here, but that's what you get from the media perspective of someone who LIVES here. Even at our relative low right now we're still far, far ahead of the vast majority of first and second world countries.

I could argue at the same time that the media portrays that everything is fine, that theres nothing to worry about, and most people buy into that. I feel the worse has yet to come and it's going to get worse before better. Many people are starving in this country but of course not at a great depression level. Thinking about it more though I can see in the grand scheme of things there are a ton of worse situations out there then Americas, the problems here just aren't so blatant and open to see. It's more long term and big problems being projected for our futures.

[_veges_]

Originally Posted by OldJersey

I could argue at the same time that the media portrays that everything is fine, that theres nothing to worry about, and most people buy into that. I feel the worse has yet to come and it's going to get worse before better. Many people are starving in this country but of course not at a great depression level. Thinking about it more though I can see in the grand scheme of things there are a ton of worse situations out there then Americas, the problems here just aren't so blatant and open to see. It's more long term and big problems being projected for our futures.

Given the size of our country we're doing ok when 9% unemployment is a terrible thing.