Watching the World News Tonight the USA Looks Like the Worst Place on Earth to Live With All That is Going On--But is It ?

SeaBreeze said:
Ruthanne, you know the saying...."if it bleeds, it leads", all news shows want ratings and viewers, so they not only report the news, but they make the best of the worst stories, to keep people interested and watching. There's 24/7 news now in the day of cable TV and social media....they have to fill the time, usually with repeating stories every half hour. Then, each year on an anniversary of a bad event, they spend another week 'reporting' on it.

In Colorado, things aren't that bad. There have been some incidents with overly forceful police and some related protests. All in all, there hasn't been anything unreasonable in the protests, problems were dealt with quickly. As far as COVID-19. the majority of the people I see on a daily basis are doing their best to contain the spread of the virus by wearing their masks and socially distancing. People are being kind and considerate to each other.

The United States of America is definitely not the worst place on earth, I assure you. I feel blessed to be born in this country, I love my fellow Americans, and I plan to stay here until I leave this earth. There are bad people everywhere, and bad leaders, but for the most part, people are good, loving and empathetic to others. We'll have our ups and downs, but don't lose faith. 🧡
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The United States is certainly among the very best places to live and how we "mutter" through our own stupidity is something that is a mystery to me. Perhaps our "better angles" come out often enough to keep us from straying too far off the path.
 

Ruthanne said:
Sorry Sunny but the website is giving me problems trying to view it..they want me to get a subscription or give them my email addy.
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Try this, Ruthanne. It's part of the article.

A county in Maryland’s lower Eastern Shore is washing away, leaving its residents with hard choices
Gary McQuitty steers his boat out into the Honga River near his hunting and fishing resort, Riverside Lodge, on Hoopers Island, Md.

Gary McQuitty steers his boat out into the Honga River near his hunting and fishing resort, Riverside Lodge, on Hoopers Island, Md. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)
By Scott Dance
August 24, 2020 at 7:41 p.m. EDT

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HOOPERS ISLAND — High tides surging from a narrow creek destroyed the car Kathy Blake once parked in her gravel driveway here. Over the past two decades, the water has ruined half a dozen of them.
Since October, when one of those floods filled the first floor of Blake’s home with six inches of water, she has been living in a camper with her husband and granddaughter in that same driveway.

Not far away in this tiny community on Maryland’s lower Eastern Shore, Chesapeake Bay waves have eaten away at the land Gary McQuitty uses to offer hunting trips. Last year, he had to move a duck blind inland. McQuitty expects to have to move it again soon, as the waves creep toward his hunting lodge.

The evidence of rising seas stretches to Dorchester County’s mainland, too, up the winding road toward the county seat of Cambridge. Across the rural southern half of the county, everything is projected to be inundated — frequently if not constantly — by the end of the century.
 
Pecos said:
Lets see, this is South Carolina:

- We are being stupid about the virus.
- We are being stupid about race relations.
- We are being stupid about domestic violence.
- We are being stupid about keeping our roads and bridges repaired.
- We are being stupid about political corruption.
- We are being stupid about alcohol and drug abuse.

We are just stupid, ... and this summer has been very hot, humid and uncomfortable with lots of mosquitos.

But, we do have good BBQ!
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@Pecos Would you like to expand on the drug abuse? Ohio was the opiod capital of the country. It's a huge problem here.
 
Ruthanne said:
@Pecos Would you like to expand on the drug abuse? Ohio was the opiod capital of the country. It's a huge problem here.
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Oh, we have a serious problem down here as well. I seems that every time I look at the police blotter in the newspaper there are multiple people arrested for cooking meth, drug trafficking or doing something bad while under the influence.
 
thank God for the right to bear arms... don't own a gun myself (yet), but just watching the news reminds me why we have a 2nd amendment. When things get really bad, the police can't protect everyone.
 
Pecos said:
Oh, we have a serious problem down here as well. I seems that every time I look at the police blotter in the newspaper there are multiple people arrested for cooking meth, drug trafficking or doing something bad while under the influence.
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So is methamphetamine the big problem there then?
 
macgeek said:
thank God for the right to bear arms... don't own a gun myself (yet), but just watching the news reminds me why we have a 2nd amendment. When things get really bad, the police can't protect everyone.
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That's right we do have the right to bear arms and to do that responsibly.
 
Pecos said:
Oh yes, meth is probably our biggest problem but interstate 20 has a lot of other drugs traveling North through here as well. Human trafficking is another regional problem along that same interstate. The evil that people do is unfathomable.
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I agree, people can be incredibly bad. Human trafficking takes a special kind of evil. Have they no hearts?
 
CarolfromTX said:
Then go. Go now. Like all the celebs that said they would leave if you-know-who was elected, you will not. Hypocrite.
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I'm offended that you called me a hypocrite. I didn't say I would, I said I would be willing to. Being willing to doesn't mean that one would guarantee that they would go. It would have been better if I had said consider trading as opposed to be willing to trade.

Now I realize that you might have been calling the celebrities hypocrites, but your wording is ambiguous enough for it to be interpreted both ways.

Also the results of the election are for more than one position so it's the entirety of the election that would be my motivation for considering such a move as opposed to just the results of one office.
 
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Asp. if I were a young person right now, and you-know-what happened in November, I would investigate ways to leave the country. Probably I'd head to Canada, or England.

Carol, hypocrites? Why? Some of them did leave.
 
Rosemarie said:
Both America and the UK must be the best countries in the world in which to live. Why else does the rest of the world do their utmost to migrate in those countries?
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You got something there Rosemarie! They all want to come to our countries!
 
I have been to 18 other countries, plus some other places that don't qualify as countries. Somehow I keep coming back to Florida.
 
I watch World News Tonight. Love David Muir. I had actually stopped watching for a couple of weeks...I couldn't take some of the news and I normally did not miss David (don't like it when he takes the weekend off...LOL). Here in Jersey we had some protests in the large cities. As far as I know, they remained peaceful. We dodged a bullet as far as a bad weather even we were expecting. Jersey's COVID numbers had gone down to a manageable level but opening of schools has been postponed until November after they went back up enough to worry teachers, the school board and our governor.
@Rosemarie: "Britain right now has lost its way, pandering to the minorities, but hopefully now that we've left the EU, we'll get back our sense of identity."
Exactly what is your identity? Can you expound on what you mean by that statement?
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I watch World News Tonight. Love David Muir. I had actually stopped watching for a couple of weeks...I couldn't take some of the news and I normally did not miss David (don't like it when he takes the weekend off...LOL). Here in Jersey we had some protests in the large cities. As far as I know, they remained peaceful. We dodged a bullet as far as a bad weather even we were expecting. Jersey's COVID numbers had gone down to a manageable level but opening of schools has been postponed until November after they went back up enough to worry teachers, the school board and our governor.
@Rosemarie: "Britain right now has lost its way, pandering to the minorities, but hopefully now that we've left the EU, we'll get back our sense of identity."
Exactly what is your identity? Can you expound on what you mean by that statement?
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I like David Muir, too, and he is soo easy on my eyes! Sounds like Jersey is doing fairly well and that's a good thing.
 

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