Do you live in America? I don't really see a lot of really happy Americans running around in love with their country. In fact a lot of people I know do a lot of bitching and I can understand why. Funny a couple of cousins, pretty young and still working talk about retiring to Italy, and one just mentioned because of better health care. There are people that defend everything American, even their wars, but there are a whole lot who are not like that. Most Americans are trying to get through their days, I think they would like to portray us that way, but since I'm a kid I never had that perspective on the average American. By the way you should hear Americans bitch about our health care system.
Americans health care system is nothing to do with health and everything to do with MONEY! ONLY ..the "health" part is just treating symptoms with drugs they can make money off of.
Yes, and I've worked in the health care community. and things have really changed. No more local family doctors, and now hospitals and doctors practices are corporately owned.I don't blame them, and I'm not defending America in this regard, just people, ordinary people.
My old country doctor in LA has gotten too old to practice...he was great... and let me pay in cash for little things.. yeah the problem is mom and pop everything is evaporating! makes me sad .
I agree, a lot of things have changed and not for the better. Those family doctors are now gone, and they don't even own their own practices. There were better times.
Well fran ...at my age i may be very jaded at this point...lol
I have seen a lot..been all around the world and met lots of different peoples..
I think my IRE can be summed up in my wish and desire to see a better America ,,but i hate that we are the main problem in the world..I was born of immigrants and grew up in the states..i have been probably to every singe state excluding Alaska at least once.. My father was french my mother German, I'm a baby boomer from the war... But i was not your typical middle american ...grew up near cities lived in NYC and was a musician and technical person for studios etc and now am near hollywood so i'm not just the typical "white guy " angry about the lost 50's or whatever they get on about... I'm a mixed bag of beliefs that span liberal to conservative and way outside most of those narrow conventions and paradigms.. I rank on the USA because i want it to be better and i hate that its citizens are so DUMB!! and terribly prone to the brain washing they are under 24/7
I don't blame you and agree our American policies are self serving here and abroad,. In that regard we suck! Politically even as a kid i didn't like us!!!!!! I learned to separate the people from my government that I never really trusted. Not even as a child.
One on one in my daily life i meet the best people so my anger over all this is general..i get along with most people..(might not know that by my ranting HA!)
I have a whole bunch of great people around me even in the belly of the hollywood beast
I was talking specifically about Celebrities at first but expanded that to the proletariat.
Do you live in America? I don't really see a lot of really happy Americans running around in love with their country. In fact a lot of people I know do a lot of bitching and I can understand why. Funny a couple of cousins, pretty young and still working talk about retiring to Italy, and one just mentioned because of better health care. There are people that defend everything American, even their wars, but there are a whole lot who are not like that. Most Americans are trying to get through their days, I think they would like to portray us that way, but since I'm a kid I never had that perspective on the average American. By the way you should hear Americans bitch about our health care system.
Americans health care system is nothing to do with health and everything to do with MONEY! ONLY ..the "health" part is just treating symptoms with drugs they can make money off of.
Yes, and I've worked in the health care community. and things have really changed. No more local family doctors, and now hospitals and doctors practices are corporately owned.I don't blame them, and I'm not defending America in this regard, just people, ordinary people.
My old country doctor in LA has gotten too old to practice...he was great... and let me pay in cash for little things.. yeah the problem is mom and pop everything is evaporating! makes me sad .
I agree, a lot of things have changed and not for the better. Those family doctors are now gone, and they don't even own their own practices. There were better times.
Well fran ...at my age i may be very jaded at this point...lol
I have seen a lot..been all around the world and met lots of different peoples..
I think my IRE can be summed up in my wish and desire to see a better America ,,but i hate that we are the main problem in the world..I was born of immigrants and grew up in the states..i have been probably to every singe state excluding Alaska at least once.. My father was french my mother German, I'm a baby boomer from the war... But i was not your typical middle american ...grew up near cities lived in NYC and was a musician and technical person for studios etc and now am near hollywood so i'm not just the typical "white guy " angry about the lost 50's or whatever they get on about... I'm a mixed bag of beliefs that span liberal to conservative and way outside most of those narrow conventions and paradigms.. I rank on the USA because i want it to be better and i hate that its citizens are so DUMB!! and terribly prone to the brain washing they are under 24/7
I don't blame you and agree our American policies are self serving here and abroad,. In that regard we suck! Politically even as a kid i didn't like us!!!!!! I learned to separate the people from my government that I never really trusted. Not even as a child.
One on one in my daily life i meet the best people so my anger over all this is general..i get along with most people..(might not know that by my ranting HA!)
I have a whole bunch of great people around me even in the belly of the hollywood beast
Yeah, it's not the people, but the crap government we have, and all those who will sell their soul for money and power and make a mess of things.
But the people vote for the crap govt?