[bfree]

Excellent article. I am sick and tired of outsiders telling the US what we should do. To the critics I say-we will fight our battles and I suggest you(from now on) fight yours. Make the world better without asking the US to pay for it. Lift your own societies up without our help. Please take the UN with you when you start your new independent world. Please do not ask for us to help. Build your military with your own money, send your people to help solve the world's problems and to fight the world's dictators.
This country began with nothing except people wanting freedom and has built itself in the world power in less than 300 years. What has Europe, Africa and our other critics done in the same time frame?
This is a time we would like, but certainly not need, the support of those we have always supported. Obviously, short memories prevail and to that I say I hope we show the same short memory the next time our critics need help.

[Thebaddog]

Anybody here for the newly proposed internation tax to "help" alleviate poverty?

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

This country began with nothing except people wanting freedom and has built itself in the world power in less than 300 years

And those people were just humble unsophisticated farmers.

Good post. Couldn't have said it better.