Quote Originally Posted by Odin
2. We embrace a two party system.
A two party system is nothing bad. I wish I wouldn't have to deal with endless lists of nobodies before placing my vote. And it's not a joke, multipartidarial systems can be a mess, and can confuse my little brain...
4. Capitalism has invested us in industries and parts of the world where we arent wanted.
We don't want some of your industries, not you or your people. It has to do with their tendencies to create a monopoly on little countries wich cannot uphold an anti-monopoly law as you people do in your State.
8. We are far to generous with foriegn aid, and this has created an expectation that we should be aiding others.
I believe the main reason for that is not that you're being too generous (wich of course cannot be seen as a bad thing). When you see some famously obscene, richly obscene person on TV donating money to some random cause, you usually take it as a necessity and a moral duty. The same happens at international level, people from poor countries see it as a moral duty that States as bigs as the US donate money, or help in any other way. The fact that you actually helped encouraged many people to believe and have hope again, if you haven't helped that much I fear that what you're saying may have even been stronger.