Top 10 things destroying America

[antiquity]

Without a shadow of a doubt....A Clueless Electorate. When a large portion of the electorate can't ever name the VP or their own congressperson......

 

[antiquity]

The problem with this poll is that you give a list of 10 things destroying this country, but then you restrict our choice to only one. I'm not ready to pin it all on only one. It should have been a multiple choice poll.

Eh I was pretty drunk

I agree, I wanted to vote for multiple choices. but was stick on voting for' A Clueless Electorate'

 

[g5000]

We are way past a "clueless" electorate.

We are deep in Willfully Stupid territory.

 

[Kondor3]

What we really need is an ability to incorporate all (or most) of those choices into a Prioritized List...

With each of us voting on Priorities for all of them...

With the composite results of all of our Priorities, published for all to see and comment upon...

America is plagued by a variety of problems... not just one...

And if I have to choose one or the other, then I surrender my ability to emphasize the importance of the others, as well...

I doubt that this board-survey technology is sufficiently sophisticated nor flexible, to accommodate such higher-order statistics-gathering and publishing...

 

[TakeAStepBack]

The welfare/warfare State and rampant, unwaivering Statism. Which you coul dessentially chaulk up to ignorance, herd mentality and complacency.

 

[Osomir]

I'd have to say the lack of adequate campaign finance reform.

 

[Pogo]

Er, we don't get that much oil from the Middle East.

True dat.

The U.S. exported more gasoline, diesel and other fuels than it imported in 2011 for the first time since 1949, the Energy Department said.

Shipments abroad of petroleum products exceeded imports by 439,000 barrels a day, the department said today in the Petroleum Supply Monthly report. In 2010, daily net imports averaged 269,000 barrels. U.S. refiners exported record amounts of gasoline, heating oil and diesel to meet higher global fuel demand while U.S. fuel consumption sank.

Looks like somebody doesn't know the difference between crude oil and gasoline...

Ruh-roh. I don't wanna be driving behind that guy.

 

[Pogo]

The single biggest threat to America is the National Educational Association. Public school teachers are turning out children's brains into mush. On top of the fact that they are failing miserably to teach basic skills needed for survival, they are brainwashing our kids with leftist crap. If we don't separate the government from the education of our young, this nation will end up circling the toilet bowl in short order.

Fascinating to see who's all into "mind control".

Kinda figures too.

 

[g5000]

I'd have to say the lack of adequate campaign finance reform.

We don't need campaign finance reform. You are addressing the symptom rather than the disease.

If you take away the reason for a special interest to give a lot of cash to a politician's campaign, you eliminate the corruption.

For instance, tax breaks. If we banned tax expenditures, a special interest would have no reason to donate to a Congressman to give them a tax break if the Congressman no longer had the power to do that.

 

[francoHFW]

Same thing as always, greedy idiot Pubs and Pub dupes, only more so.

 

[Unkotare]

Same thing as always, greedy idiot Pubs and Pub dupes, only more so.

Your posts remind us all that 'Illiteracy' and 'Substance Abuse' should be on the list.

 

[bripat9643]

The single biggest threat to America is the National Educational Association. Public school teachers are turning out children's brains into mush. On top of the fact that they are failing miserably to teach basic skills needed for survival, they are brainwashing our kids with leftist crap. If we don't separate the government from the education of our young, this nation will end up circling the toilet bowl in short order.

Fascinating to see who's all into "mind control".

Kinda figures too.

ROFL! You think public schools don't indoctrinate students? You have to be terminally naive to believe that.

 

[Desperado]

A Clueless Electorate and The State of the Media go hand in hand.
Actually that should read "the State Media" instead of "State of the Media" it would be more appropriate.
Hard to figure which is worse, would we have a Clueless Electorate if we had decent media? Maybe but I doubt it would be as bad as it is now.

 

[bripat9643]

A Clueless Electorate and The State of the Media go hand in hand.
Actually that should read "the State Media" instead of "State of the Media" it would be more appropriate.
Hard to figure which is worse, would we have a Clueless Electorate if we had decent media? Maybe but I doubt it would be as bad as it is now.

The reason we have a state run media is the fact that we have a state educated media. Public universities are brain washing mills for pumping out good obedient servants of the state.

 

[Pogo]

The single biggest threat to America is the National Educational Association. Public school teachers are turning out children's brains into mush. On top of the fact that they are failing miserably to teach basic skills needed for survival, they are brainwashing our kids with leftist crap. If we don't separate the government from the education of our young, this nation will end up circling the toilet bowl in short order.

Fascinating to see who's all into "mind control".

Kinda figures too.

ROFL! You think public schools don't indoctrinate students? You have to be terminally naive to believe that.

The word "naive" -- posted by Fingerboy...

What I think is that kids as they grow will figure things out (except maybe in your case) as they grow, even if they've been misled in school. I certainly did. What's your excuse?

I just note who it is that wants control of those little minds in his naive belief that he can "program" them to his own likeness. No doubt Doctor Evil programmed you to think that, and being easily led, you're parroting him.

 

[hortysir]

I would like much better to vote for Debt rather than Deficit

 

[Wake]

How about uncontrolled consumption of sugar, salts, and fat? Our food culture sucks, and is why our obesity rates are through the roof.

 

[007]

Liberalism and the progressive left suffering from an advanced case of retarded political correctness is what's ruining America.

 

[hortysir]

How about uncontrolled consumption of sugar, salts, and fat? Our food culture sucks, and is why our obesity rates are through the roof.

Had a guest, yesterday, give me the same lecture about us not having enough vegetable choices.
She ended up ordering sauteed spinach, mushrooms and tomatoes with a side order of corn.

We live in a supply/demand society.
Unless and until the demand pushes us into more veggies we will continue to sell Tiramisu and Jelly Donut pancakes

 

[squeeze berry]

political correctness didn't make the list