Being an American- it's a privilege, right? We have far more chances to be happy in life than say...the people living in countries such as Liberia and Iraq. How do you figure this to be true? What do you base it on? How do you measure happiness? Everyone finds it  in different ways. To the American people, for the most part, happiness is living comfortably in wealth. Eating in nice restaurants, wearing their $100 Nike shoes, always buying new clothes, paying insurance on their three cars, shit like that. As long as you have the money, you can be happy, right? Well, I don't do any of those things and I still can't seem to get ahead. I make over eleven dollars an hour in a shitty Pennsylvanian town, live in a crappy apartment, and still can't make ends meet. It doesn't make much sense to me. We are living in a country where there are millions of people just like me that can't be totally happy because of financial reasons. And if you think about it, I'm probably in the upper 20 percent of the richest people in the entire nation. The United States is buried in a landslide of trouble.  So why does every other nation in the world look to us for help?  Why do we have to help everyone else in the world when we need help? We destroy countries all over the world, and then rebuild them. We help feed and clothe the people of nations whose name I can't even pronounce, yet there are homeless people here in the U.S.  This country is so far in debt.  But I wonder, does it even matter anymore?  The goverment just keeps on printing more and more currency to pay for all this unnecessary bullshit. And it doesn't matter who is president because it is a never ending cycle. The funny thing is, we help every country in the world, and yet they all hate us.  Whether they openly admit it or not, they do. When the towers came down 2 years ago, did any foreign nation send us money?  Not that I know of.  Not one dollar.  This country needs to worry about itself, first and foremost. You know what I would do?  I would give Israel and the Palestinians one last chance for peace. The first time one of them broke the agreement (which would probably happen in about ten minutes) I would drop ten atomic bombs in Israel. It makes me sick when I turn on CNN and the top story is always the suicide bombings in Israel. Just blow them off the face of the Earth.  I'm not a person that normally says this sort of thing, but I'm tired of it. This country wants to be number one, but it also wants to wear the good guy badge. George Bush is a dictator, because he rules the United States through fear. After September 11th, he stated in a speech, if you aren't with us, you're against us. Nations are afraid of us, so they agree to be on our side.  They don't want to be the next target.  I truly believe that the United States wants to rule the entire world, and Geoge W. Bush was the person the government was waiting for to take this country to that plateau. Maybe you don't agree with everything I have said here today, and that's okay. But you can't deny that this country is run by the almighty dollar.