tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post539332030932677571..comments2023-08-13T09:15:04.565+01:00Comments on MILLFLATS MERCURY-formerly the Tarff Advertiser: Lack in the US of AMad Jock McMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088238215251518226noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post-19024873484566115292013-10-09T02:16:58.440+01:002013-10-09T02:16:58.440+01:00Lucretia,
Again you resort to insult instead of ar...Lucretia,<br />Again you resort to insult instead of argument. Do you have any facts to back up what you say? According to you, I have "a low IQ and no education". Not to brag, but I have a PhD and a recorded IQ of 145. Your statement that "everyone wants to live here" is far from true - while the USA may be an interesting place to visit (and I have done so several times and met some wonderful people there), I wouldn't live there for all the tea in China - and I know plenty of people of the same opinion. The USA treats its citizens like shit - why would I want to live there? My former in-laws, citizens of your demented country, are living in poverty in their old age -after a lifetime of high-level, highly-paid professional work - because of medical bills. In my poor "backward country" their savings would have been protected and their medical treatment free. That's what I call civilisation - something of which you seem to have no concept, lost as you are in the savagery that is American right-wing philosophy (if you can call something so patently stupid a "philosophy"). I know how America works. You, obviously, have NO idea how Europe works. Bobelixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09560064848522334094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post-66324915574845323092013-10-08T12:38:10.576+01:002013-10-08T12:38:10.576+01:00In effect your posts epitomises the weakness of yo...In effect your posts epitomises the weakness of your own argument - The USA claims to be the world's policeman when it comes to defending freedom yet is making things worse every where it goes. The Libyan's are not best pleased with your latest exploits. Iraq remains a total mess. Afghanistan is heading back to the dark ages.<br /><br />You are clearly not aware of just how broke the USA is after the Fed had to spend an estimated $2,000+ billion simply bailing out US debt in UK banking institutions when Lehman's went down the pan. I would love to know what the actual Fed bail out figure was for Wall Street's casino bankers who triggered the crash with the Fanny and May disaster.<br /><br />PS: I am in my own country, Scotland. The country that created your representative democracy through its Enlightenment Philospher's influence on your constitution and its writing. Scotland, the backward country that had a large hand in creating the USA. One of whose sons, who was born where I live, created the USN - John Paul-Jones. What I see is a country falling far short of its founding fathers intentions for it, first and foremost a constitution which states religion has no place in US politics.<br /><br />You are not European so you do not see what a laughing stock the 'Tea Party' are making the USA in the eyes of the world with its insularity.<br /><br />Please address the issues raised - I am leaving your responses simply because they make my argument for me.<br /><br />Mad Jock McMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17088238215251518226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post-8013569163133838152013-10-08T03:05:10.752+01:002013-10-08T03:05:10.752+01:00And we don't care about other countries who ar...And we don't care about other countries who are are desperately trying to immitate us. Every other country has so miserably failed and everyone wants to live here. We don't want or need that backward movement. Stay in your own backward coutnryLucretiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07450211841908784641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post-910404978797539132013-10-08T03:00:32.822+01:002013-10-08T03:00:32.822+01:00You are not an American and the information you ha...You are not an American and the information you have is so bad and so wrong that it makes you look like a jackass. If you are so stupid you have no credibility in your own country we don't want your stupidity here. Do you even understand how you are being used? The danger with some one like you who has a low IQ and no education when you are given a little false knowledge you buy it hook line and sinker.<br />Go back and write about your own country we don't want you here.<br />Do you understand that the more you talk the more everyone is laughing at you?Lucretiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07450211841908784641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post-32212597405631693012013-10-07T23:25:07.429+01:002013-10-07T23:25:07.429+01:00I note that Lucretia, and, I presume, those delete...I note that Lucretia, and, I presume, those deleted, has no concept of how to conduct debate. If someone makes an accusation, it is incumbent upon those objecting to the accusation to provide some counter-proof, some factual rebuttal. What we have here is just a series of insults - "ignorance", "laughing stock","buffoon" etc. <br />What Lucretia also fails to realise is that outside of the USA people are gazing with fascinated horror at the rise of the profoundly anti-intellectual Tea Party whose policies hark back to the McCarthy Era socially and to the 19th century economically - neither one a desirable option. There is plentiful information reported on American issues worldwide since what affects America affects us all eventually - we are far from ignorant of American affairs. The reverse is not true. Americans like Lucretia appear totally unaware of the fact that most, if not all of their European allies pursue policies that they would decry as "Socialist" (in complete ignorance of the meaning of the word) or "Communist" (ditto). We regard the terrible state of public health provision in the USA as an indication of political maturity stalled at the savage level. The Tea Party's attempts to turn a secular Republic (as the Founding Fathers defined it) into a theocracy by telling bare-faced lies engenders revulsion on the part of a continent which has suffered terribly over the centuries through unbridled religion and has, in the main, drawn its teeth long ago. God should never be in goverment - all human history teaches us that such is a recipe for oppression and atrocity. I, in common with many others, had great hopes for the USA as I grew up. It is now becoming fast apparent that, politically at any rate, the USA is a failed and undemocratic state. That makes me very sad as I have known countless decent Americans who would never subscribe to Tea Party savagery but are having to suffer the consequences of a philosophy that preys and exists on the backs of the politically ignorant.<br />Bobelixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09560064848522334094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post-14584951759155205382013-10-07T10:15:18.253+01:002013-10-07T10:15:18.253+01:00There is no integrity on this page only ignorance....There is no integrity on this page only ignorance. Comment on your own country., You are a laughing stock in this one. Those involved in the legislation are laughing until they are sick about how you bought what they could never sell to an American. You are just to dumb to be taken seriously and have no credibility. I'm actually trying to help you. You are embarrassing yourself and looking like a buffoon. You need to stop to salvage any sense of reputation that could be had. Why do you insist on wanting to look like a jackass? Just apologize for the stupidity you have shown through the vomiting out the disinformation that they fed to you. Refrain from discussing American issues about which you are ignorant.Lucretiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07450211841908784641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post-73075334431939402572013-10-07T08:56:45.257+01:002013-10-07T08:56:45.257+01:00The post were removed because they were simply an ...The post were removed because they were simply an ad hominen attack and did not move the discussion forward.<br /><br />This is the view many now have of the USA. One where business cartels run the USA for their own advantage assisted by supine Republican politicians. I note today that even the Republican's best friends at Fox News are reporting that 59% of Americans are pointing the finger at the Republicans for the shut down.<br /><br />I merely held up a mirror to how the Republicans and more specifically 'Tea Party' Republicans are seen outside of the USA, reflected on how their policies of 'me first' have been imported and are now wrecking the UK creating a nearly as unequal country as the USA already is. By any measure the far right of the Republican movement now have much more in common with the fascists my father's generation fought and died to kick out of Europe and US Servicemen died to rid from Asia. The irony of it all is the Tea Party Republicans are in effect encouraging the growth of fascist far right, neo-Nazi groups across the USA.<br /><br />This is the mirror I am holding up - if you do not like what you see, that is your own problem.<br /><br />My integrity refuses to be altered to fit in with what I'm expected or intimidated to believe. Mad Jock McMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17088238215251518226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post-73159311494335505652013-10-06T22:26:15.687+01:002013-10-06T22:26:15.687+01:00I notice the comments made by others have convenie...I notice the comments made by others have conveniently been removed. So it's OK to voice an opinion on your hit piece...just as long as it conforms to your beliefs? Way to stand behind your work.G-man-Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15770986212603511559noreply@blogger.com