I hate what this country has become, and I'm no longer proud of it. It pains me to see the changes that have enveloped the US over the past few years.
Once upon a time, the US was a country respected around the world, a place where everyone wanted to come. Now.......
Once we were a country of compassionate and reasonable individuals, who recognized the plight of the less fortunate, and tried to help. Now we take every opportunity to exploit the misfortunes of others, and to expand our influence, and impose our sense of morality and values on other who are different from us.
Our education system was once the envy of the world, turning out the top engineers, scientists, doctors, etc. around the world. Now our education system is doing nothing more then producing a generation of idiots, unable to think for themselves, and we import all our engineers, scientists and doctors from India and China.
Once our manufacturing prowess was a model for the world. Now we have transferred all that manufacturing know how overseas to countries like India and China, and import virtually everything we consume.
Even our health care system, once considered the place to come for the best doctors and the latest treatments, has now been over run by profiteers, that see patients simply as profit centers from which money can be extracted. Doctors and health care providers regularly order unnecessary tests, perform unnecessary procedures, and prescribe unneeded medications, not, as some would have you believe, to prevent lawsuits, but simply because it's good for their bottom line.
Even worse [as if that isn't bad enough], the hatred, bigotry, fear and derisiveness espoused by many of our political leaders and others in influential positions, directed at a gullible, naive public, has risen to a level it is jeopardizing the fabric of our society.
The level of contempt and arrogance displayed by our leaders towards their constituents is reaching a tipping point. No longer are they concerned with the plight of other. Their only concern being what serves their own self interests and those of their benefactors.
The United States has become a profiteering and hateful country led by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin and many others, and facilitated by the likes of Fox News, and others who would usurp the bill rights if it would benefit them.
I used to love this country. I even served in the Army during the Vietnam war, but if the opportunity would afford me I would leave in a heart beat.