I love this topic.
Ruslana“What sources of information made you think so? ”
Look at per capita income around the world.
Look at internet access around the world.
Look at the billions of people in rural China, rural Russia, rural Africa and tell me that their poverty isn't so bad. What about the millions in rural India, the former Burma, and hundreds of other countries?
You really don't see the vast disparity in wealth? You don't see the abject poverty? You don't see the seemingly insurmountable barriers?
Ruslana “Do you know Russian & Chinese languages fluently to have a possibility of reading and watching Russian (Chinese) mass media directly? ”
I read their official English translations. I know how their information systems work. I understand the difference between the free press and a state-run media where opposition leaders and opposition journalists are killed or imprisoned. It's sad that you don't see the difference.
Ruslana “Please correct me if I made you out wrong: the greatest liberty experiment of humanity started from the presumtion that some small nations were "ineligible"?”
Sort of. This experiment began when slavery was rampant. This experiment began when 99% of the world was living under monarchies or some form of traditional theocracy. It was light-years ahead of it's time then, and it still is now.
Since then, things have changed. And nearly every time changes have been made in the direction of liberty, the US was the one pioneering the change. Our Constitution is designed to change slowly in the direction of more liberty and more justice over the long haul.
When our founding fathers sat down to write the Constitution, the entire western world looked at the Native Americans as complete savages, entirely nonhuman. They were not considered eligible.
But for that matter, neither were women. The point is that these things have changed. It's really easy to point the finger at the US for its genocide over 150 years ago, but to make that same claim about the Soviets in the 1980s against all sorts of its own 'undesirable ethnic populations' is more relevant and far more poignient.
Ruslana “Do you mean that the aspiration for giving liberty to small nations led to dependence of these nations? ”
No, but what's done is done. Their people are citizens of our great nation now, with all the rights and freedoms the rest of us have... and more.
Ruslana “Oh my gosh, Shaved, do you consider yourself Mr Bush?
Until the majority of American people claim and wholly agree with this statement of yours (by means of a poll or whatever), I believe it should be taken it as your own oddity.”
You have a lot to learn about the social contract we call the Constitution. All Americans should understand that the government represents them. That they ARE the governement. It sounds like the Americans you talk to are (a) not willing to own that fact, (b) too lazy to read their own Constitution, or (c) far too oblivious and willfully negligent of their duty to this nation to bother to vote responsibly and intelligently.
Ruslana “By the way, you HAVE NOT answered the question about the USA debt. Please do that.
Talking about economic strength of the USA, has your government already paid off its enormous external debt of over 9 billion dollars (for comparison, the USA GDP averaged 13 billion dollars in 2006) and solved
its problem of being insolvent?”
We have the largest economy in the world. Our currency is no longer backed by the gold or silver standards. Do you know what backs the dollar now?
It's the 5.56mm bullet, the M1A1 Abrams, and the fleet of aircraft carriers that enforce world stability.
That 'external debt' is the investment the rest of the world makes in our success. The beauty of the free market is that neither debt or wealth exist until you collect on them.
If the world 'collected' on the debt America owed it, their security would vanish. We'd have to scale back our massive military, and that would have tremendous consequences on the security of the world.
If China called in our trade deficit, what do you think would happen to their largest consumer? It would not be ble to continue to purchase those goods, and then China would fall apart. So it's not the US solvency that I refer to when I talk about our economic might.
I refer to the American consumer, the American marketplace, the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world.
We let our people keep a hell of a lot more of their money than most other nations do, and as a result, our economy often looks shaky when it is actually very strong.
The American economy is the American consumer.
The American government is the American voter.