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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (286512)5/3/2006 2:10:54 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (2) of 1574852
 
Things are different here. I am not sure I can give the specifics that will make it clear to you. I think you have to be here to understand. Recently, I've begun to realize that given where you are located, you are only getting some of what's happening here.

Living overseas (which I have done for extended periods three times in my lifetime) what I have learned is how great a place is America is, even if the grammar in that sentence isn't quite spot on. You may have issues with the USA compared to some idealized fantasyland, but compared to most other countries on the planet it is a fantastic place to live, full of opportunity. The US values individuals based on their own merit instead of their family/wealth/connections.

Isn't Bill Clinton exactly the rags to riches story that you are saying no longer exists? Didn't his father either leave or die before he was 12, his brother was a semi-alcoholic, his mother was by no means wealthy, he's from freakin' ARKANSAS, and he ends up President of the USA twice simply because he's brilliant?

America will be in decline when people born their immigrate en masse to other better places to live. I'm the extreme oddball these days, a native northern Californian that lives outside the US instead of inside the San Francisco Bay Area. I think being outside the US I have a much better perspective on the US position relative to the rest of the world than you do.

You would probably go to Disneyworld and see it as an entertainment complex which is past its prime and in decline....
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