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hunter

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25. The USA is not a "First World" nation and never has been.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Jun 19, 2013, 03:29 PM

Jun 2013

We're a developing nation with a huge military and a wealthy ruling elite.

There's always been a large underclass in the USA largely a consequence of racism, misogyny, authoritarianism, fundamentalism, political corruption and other repugnant national traits.

Our nation first achieved "wealth" by genocide and slavery, and in the modern world by our control of the international oil markets, often by military force, propaganda, sabotage, and financial or political disruption.

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Big Lie: America Doesn't Have #1 Richest Middle-Class in the World...We're Ranked 27th! [View all] xchrom Jun 2013 OP

America loves the rich and doesn't want them to do without... However they don't think that midnight Jun 2013 #1

They want you to pull yourself up by the bootstraps but they don't tell you hobbit709 Jun 2013 #2

Thats a fact hobbit sorefeet Jun 2013 #4

We have our winner. Brigid Jun 2013 #11

They also don't tell you that they own the bootstraps and you'll be paying handsomely to use them. Arkansas Granny Jun 2013 #14

It really wasn't like that in the early, mid-'70s deutsey Jun 2013 #5

I think we have ALEC to thank for this.. midnight Jun 2013 #6

along with the infamous Powell Memo deutsey Jun 2013 #8

"there were plenty of problems the "counter-culture" movements created" --what do you mean? nt raccoon Jun 2013 #23

Drug abuse, for one deutsey Jun 2013 #24

Everybody was legally drinking and Rx drugging leftstreet Jun 2013 #28

Last I checked, heroin was illegal, yeah. deutsey Jun 2013 #32

By the late '70s deutsey Jun 2013 #33

K & R marmar Jun 2013 #3

K&R abelenkpe Jun 2013 #7

27th in the World - Bar none!! byeya Jun 2013 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author mother earth Jun 2013 #10

K&R - Median statistics are way more meaningful than average/mean statistics. reformist2 Jun 2013 #12

The inevitable corruption of capitalism fasttense Jun 2013 #13

We have the most millionaires & billionaires. We also have the most people in prison. baldguy Jun 2013 #15

K&R. HughBeaumont Jun 2013 #16

This is the REAL news in America.. mountain grammy Jun 2013 #17

Is this news?...America, who, during the 1960's, had the largest middle class in the world, whathehell Jun 2013 #18

Well, it's not about the size of the middle class muriel_volestrangler Jun 2013 #20

K & R. nt historylovr Jun 2013 #19

Walmart nineteen50 Jun 2013 #21

And it's going downhill fast TakeALeftTurn Jun 2013 #22

The USA is not a "First World" nation and never has been. hunter Jun 2013 #25

Not too sure about the "never" part truebluegreen Jun 2013 #26

If the USA was "never" a first world nation, no other country ever was either. Quantess Jun 2013 #30

Thom Hartmann once said that if our current average incomes had stayed up with inflation Quixote1818 Jun 2013 #27

We're number on... I mean 27! YEAH! sakabatou Jun 2013 #29

K & R n/t glinda Jun 2013 #31