Only in America..

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Falcon

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directed at The United States of America!

Canadian's Version of David Letterman's Top 10

This is Canada's Top Ten List of America's Stupidity..

10) Only in America ... could Democrat politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.

9) Only in America ... could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black. 40% of all federal entitlements go to black Americans – 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!

8) Only in America .... could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Democrat Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Democrat Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

7) Only in America ... can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

6) Only in America ... would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.

5) Only in America .. could people such as Tea Party and Libertarians who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."

4) Only in America ... could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

3) Only in America .. could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

2) Only in America ... could the Democrat Administration collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.

1) Only in America ... could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who DO NOT pay any income taxes at all. (
 

Only in America you can see advertisements for shelter and food. By very young boys and girls and adults who after the devastation of New Orleans . Still have no were to live.
I have seen adverts of children begging for food and sleeping rough. Adults asking for help to be rehoused as there houses have still not been rebuilt.
 

Only in America can you see lunatic fringe groups post such nonsense. (Complaining about taxes? Try living in Europe!) We pay much less in taxes, especially the wealthiest among us, and get a lot less in services, than any modern western society. It is amazing to me that people with middle class incomes have been brainwashed to support the greed of the super rich.

And as for the Tea Party, I love them and hope they thrive and prosper! They have ruined the Republican Party, the moderates of that party are running as fast as they can to distance themselves from the extremists, and thanks to the tea partiers, no Republican candidate has a snowball's chance in hell of winning the Presidency. Good job, boys, keep it up! :rolleyes:
 
Sunny said:
Only in America can you see lunatic fringe groups post such nonsense. (Complaining about taxes? Try living in Europe!) We pay much less in taxes, especially the wealthiest among us, and get a lot less in services, than any modern western society. It is amazing to me that people with middle class incomes have been brainwashed to support the greed of the super rich.

And as for the Tea Party, I love them and hope they thrive and prosper! They have ruined the Republican Party, the moderates of that party are running as fast as they can to distance themselves from the extremists, and thanks to the tea partiers, no Republican candidate has a snowball's chance in hell of winning the Presidency. Good job, boys, keep it up! :rolleyes:
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.......talk about 'true words'.

I have never heard a Canadian talk like this, looks more like the right's 'smear and fear' or Fox's propaganda.
 
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10) A $50,000-a-plate fundraiser for Mitt Romney drew about 150 people to the Palm Beach home of Wilbur and Hilary Ross this evening, one of the event’s organizers said. (from postonpolitics)
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Looks to me that the "Canadian" who "wrote" the Only in America piece was likely an (American) extreme right-winger, who still has sour grapes over the last two election results.

John Hawkins runs Right Wing News and Linkiest. He's also the co-owner of the The Looking Spoon. Additionally, he does weekly appearances on the #1 in it's market Jaz McKay show, writes two weekly columns for Townhall and a column for PJ Media. Additionally, his work has also been published at the Washington Examiner, The Hill, TPNN, Hot Air, The Huffington Post and at Human Events.

Furthermore,
he's also the premier interviewer on the Right and has interviewed conservatives like Andrew Breitbart, Thomas Sowell, Mark Levin, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert Novak, Mark Steyn, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Jonah Goldberg, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Malkin, Jim DeMint, Walter Williams, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove and Milton Friedman among others.

Moreover, John Hawkins' work has been linked and discussed in numerous publications and on TV and radio shows including ABC News, BusinessWeek, C-Span, The Chicago Tribune, CNN, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Editor & Publisher, Fox News, Hannity and Colmes, The Laura Ingraham Show, Minneapolis Star Tribune, MSNBC, National Journal, National Post, Newsmax, Newsweek, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Tammy Bruce Show, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Hugh Hewitt Show, The Washington Post, Salt Lake Tribune, Scarborough Country, U.S. News & World Report, WorldNetDaily and Human Events, where he had a weekly column. Right Wing News has been studied by college classes and even inspired an urban legend that was covered at Snopes.

Last but not least, John Hawkins also founded and led the Rightroots group, a grassroots effort that collected almost $300,000 for Republican candidates in the last 3 months of the 2006 election cycle.

In 2008, he consulted for Duncan Hunter's presidential campaign and was on the board of Slatecard, which raised more than $600,000 for Republican candidates in the 2008 election cycle. In 2011, he helped found Raising Red, although he left the organization the same year and went on to become one of the co-founders of Not Mitt Romney.com.

Written by John Hawkins...http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/04/10/20_only_in_america_ironies/page/full

1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black.

3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

4) Only in America will you find people who burn the American flag and call America an "imperialist nation," but who get offended if you say they're not patriotic.

5) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

6) Only in America could someone drinking a $5 latte and texting to his friends on an iPhone 4 complain that the government allows some people to make too much money.

7) Only in America would people take rappers who brag about shooting people and selling drugs seriously when they complain the police are targeting them unfairly.

8) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.

9) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."

10) Only in America could the most vicious foes of successful conservative women be self-proclaimed feminists and the National Organization for Women.

11) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

12) Only in America can we have terrorists fly planes into our buildings and have some people’s first thought be "what did we do to make them hate us?"

13) Only in America would we think teaching kids at college is an appropriate job for communists, terrorists, and other dregs of humanity.

14) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether the oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when for every penny of profit the oil companies make, the government tacks on roughly 24 cents’ worth of taxes.

15) Only in America could the first people asked to weigh in on the seriousness of a racial incident by the media be professional race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Ben Jealous. In other words, it's like calling in a car dealer as a neutral source on whether or not you need to get a new car.

16) Only in America does airport security put its hands on your underwear....while you're wearing it.

17) Only in America could the government force a skating rink to have handicapped parking spots and Braille on the ATM machines.

18) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation ever has before in all of recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more that it has per year, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.

19) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.

20) Only in America could the people who approve of slaughtering 25 million females babies via abortion accuse OTHER PEOPLE of waging a "war on women."
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Only in America do people circulate a piece of garbage like this around for years, inserting party labels wherever they can.

Only in America are people so excited to read and forward such an old piece of biased trash.

Only in America can a political party have nothing of value to contribute to America and the American people, so they have to try and make themselves look better by trashing the other party...they have no new answers, ideas, or anything else to offer.

Only in America do the citizens suffer from a do-nothing government, that's more involved with nit-picking and complaining about the other guy, than thinking of positive ways to govern that will benefit this country and all of its people.
 
Well said SB and the others. You know it is dribble when it is obviously so biased. It is never all one group.
 
There is quite a flaw in what you are calling entitlements. Social security, medicare and unemployment are paid for during our working years. Yes, they are "entitlements". We paid for them and are entitled to them.

Welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, and such are unearned benefits paid for by the same people who paid for the above. There is a huge difference in the two groups. You know that but lump them together to try and change the perception of whose getting what.
 
rkunsaw said:
There is quite a flaw in what you are calling entitlements. Social security, medicare and unemployment are paid for during our working years. Yes, they are "entitlements". We paid for them and are entitled to them.

Welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, and such are unearned benefits paid for by the same people who paid for the above. There is a huge difference in the two groups. You know that but lump them together to try and change the perception of whose getting what.
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Well, I agree...and I personally don't call social security, medicare or unemployment "entitlements". But a lot of people, especially those on the right, are calling them entitlements...and that has become commonplace now in this country.

I have worked part time as a teen, and full time for my entire adult life, until I retired. I paid all my taxes out of my hard earned paychecks to pay for these things, and now that I'm a senior, I really resent these conservative voices labeling these "entitlements", like it's welfare, medicaid or food stamps. :mad:

They would like to do away with all the "entitlements" that seniors get, like Medicare and SS...luckily it won't affect people like you and me if they have their way.
 
Shirley said:
Just because something is often repeated doesn't mean it is not true.
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That's correct, but it doesn't mean it's true either. Many times, even outside of politics, someone will repeatedly tell a lie not only to convince others that it's true, but also to convince themselves. We see a lot of the repetitive lying in politics, unfortunately...but some of us see right through it, and frankly, tire of it.
 
Well most industrial countries are seeing economic growth with the Middle Class. In the US the working Middle Class has seen flat wage growth for over three decades. Thus the weakened Middle Class in America. American workers didn't ask for flat wages. They didn't ask for having their jobs shipped offshore. They didn't ask to have their job replaced by automation. They didn't benefits by any of this, but someone benefitted.
 
Only in America.

This is Canada 's Top Ten List
of America's Stupidity.
Can you blame them for writing this?

Number 10) Only in America ...could
politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 per plate
campaign fund-raising event.

Number 9) Only in America ...could
people claim that the government still discriminates against black
Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General
and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of
the population is black 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black
Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to
Hispanics!

Number 8) Only in America ...could they
have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy
Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who
once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats
who are in favor of higher taxes.

Number 7) Only in America ...can they
have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media
and liberals react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the
backlash.

Number 6) Only in America ...would they
make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for
years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for
the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the
country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens (probably
should be


Number 5) Only in America ....could the
people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the
country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."

Number 4) Only in America ...could you
need to present a driver's license to cash a check, board an airplane
or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

Number 3) Only in America ...could
people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are
gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on
equity invested in a major U.S. Oil company( Marathon Oil) averages 12%
profit and they take all the risk and the US government takes by force
18.4% to 24.4% in gas tax for taking zero risk and doing absolutely
nothing for that revenue other than creating a law to force the oil
companies to give it to them. So the government makes 6% to 12% more
profit than the oil companies themselves on gas sales for doing
absolutely nothing but using force.

Number 2) Only in America ....could the
government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in
recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per
year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and the left
complains that it still doesn't have nearly enough money for all their
programs.

And Number 1) Only in America ...could
the so called "rich people" who pay 86% of all income taxes - be
accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any
income taxes at all ..
 
I am retired and have a dog, Pikey, for a companion and my interests are word puzzles and the internet. Your post is accurate and filled with truth, so I appreciate it very, very much.
 
John, many of the statements are misleading and if I wanted to do all the typing I could reflect that. I don't mean to imply that they are all wrong or even misleading but many are.
 
AZ Jim said:
John, many of the statements are misleading and if I wanted to do all the typing I could reflect that. I don't mean to imply that they are all wrong or even misleading but many are.
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I don't have the energy either Jim.... People are going to believe this garbage no matter what blatant facts are presented. It's the wonder of the Conservative noise machine... it drowns out commons sense..
 
Falcon said:
This is Canada 's Top Ten List
of America's Stupidity.
Can you blame them for writing this?


Number 9) Only in America ...could
people claim that the government still discriminates against black
Americans

Number 8) Only in America ...could they
have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy
Geithner

Number 7) Only in America ...can they
have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media
and liberals react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the
backlash.

Number 5) Only in America ....could the
people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the
country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."

Number 4) Only in America ...could you
need to present a driver's license to cash a check, board an airplane
or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

Number 3) Only in America ...could
people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are
gouging the public because the price of gas went up
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Only in America can something written by a American conservative, perhaps one one that runs the Right Wing News?http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/04/10/20_only_in_america_ironies/page/full , will people believe it was authored by a Canadian and keep the trash in circulation by forwarding it to others for almost 3 years on the internet.

Only in America will the conservative author be so anxious to get this garbage out, that he slips up on #8...writing "our", so much for Canadian.

#9 WHO says that the American government still discriminates against black Americans, acknowledging racism exists is not discriminating.

#7 Muslim does NOT equal terrorists.

#5 WHO believes someone who wants to balance the budget and believes in the constitution is an extremist?

#4 Buying alcohol, boarding an airplane and cashing a check are not constitutional rights in this country, voting is. Also, you don't have to have a driver's license to do those things, all you need is an approved ID card....not everyone drives now, do they?

#3 WHO demands those investigations?

Sounds like an angry American Republican to me, let's vote for these guys in 2016!
 

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