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44. That's right...

Tue Jun 25, 2013, 01:49 AM

Jun 2013

"American Exceptionalism" has been placed where it belongs. In the trash. Who are we to say we are the "greatest nation in the world"? All of my life I bucked when I heard politicians use it. We are no better than ANY nation on this earth. Also: "God Bless America." When Kate Smith sung it, yes, I loved it. Because I felt America did do good for mankind after WWII. But now? We haven't done so good for the world in the last 40 years or so. We could have SAVED the world! But nooooooooo, we had to go the greedy "I got mine", "Me-Me-Me", "Greed is Good", "globalization" route. There's never enough for them. They have to have more and more and more. And in the process, the citizens of the world have less and less and less.

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