Happy 4th of July (Kebir Blue)

Happy, happy, happy......

Sad, sad, sad. The British should never have let you guys win that war :P

Bah! We hit the height of our power 150 years after we lost the thirteen colonies. Clearly they were a drag!

Besides, we shipped all our religious loonies out there before granting religious freedom to the remaining moderates. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me.

But seriously, we should have responded better to the demand for representation. Don't forget, the demand was for "no taxation without representation", not simply "no taxation". We were trying to impose unfair taxes on a population who had no vote in Parliament. War became inevitable when you disrespected our national drink by throwing it in Boston's harbour.

No, war became inevitable when you passed the law banning colonization west of the Appalachians, making it impossible for the colonists to go west and get land by subjugating and destroying Native American cultures. But the Boston Massacre and that stuff makes it sound like we were fighting for a better cause. Whatever. We have fireworks and you don't, so suck on that. *Fires what is basically a handheld missile forty feet into the air where it explodes* And for the record, I only drink tea when I can't sleep or when I'm at Teavana and they have free samples.

http://www.jokesaboutamericans.com/american_joke_four.html

Why, why do these posts always end up with people writing essays!

Stop the essays!

Celebrate... the... er... day!

LET'S DRINK TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY FOR THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

It's a great day and we're all blessed.

Sunny,
are you applying for moderator?

anyways, happy birthday USA.

and every one, please be safe with your celebrations, drinking and blowing things up in the middle of summer... you know

Josias, WHATS THE POINT OF BLOWING STUFF UP IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE SAFE ABOUT IT? JULY 4, 2011-CELEBRATING 235 YEARS OF CORRUPTION AND GUNS!

lol

Hi Parsi,

Interesting question, what bought it up?

Damn, no more essays, oh well. Come on brits, i want to read more about your opinions.(religious loonies) because if it wasn't for you all, we'd be drinking tea w/ funny acsents, not blowing $#!@ up and drinking cold beer. happy fourth to all

Actually, I drink tea with a funny accent anyway.

im sure our (many) accents in america sound funny to the rest of the world. the only tea ill drink is of the long island variety. i just get a kick out of peoples opinions on subjects like this. always a good laugh!

Hope e1 in the states had a wonderful 4th.

BOOM! FREEDOM!

Maybe the last birthday of the United States as we know it. Considering that the country is facing its financial end by being bankrupt, I wonder what will happen when it finally happens. Looks like all that freedom and American way of life turns out to be too expensive to pay for. Or was it the excessive spending for an overly large military sector and trying to control and police the whole world? Who knows... At least imperial roman-style celebrations like this keep the masses quiet and temporarily happy while they are facing their impending doom as a nation.

We're not even close to the end.

True. The USA - and basically all other western industrialized nations - are waaaay past that point with debt that can never be reduced, while being barely able to pay the interest. Let's see how long that cycle continues. I recently read that congress needs to adjust the spending limit (again) above the self-imposed limit, so the USA remain in the position to pay their state employees. Isn't a self-imposed limit pointless if it is being raised every year?

Looks like all that freedom and American way of life turns out to be too expensive to pay for.- Andross

the problem, is via the media, the average person is brainwashed into spending, for a higher standard of living, with increases demand, and prices. but big business is loath to increase wages, so we have the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. if wages were to increase to match the increase in corporate profits, or if prices were to remain stable, everything would be great

The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is the American way of economics that is being exported all over the world. You can see the same in Greece today, where The EU has to spend billions of euros to save private corporations (banks, insurance) from going bankrupt. The "poor" people there will not see one euro of all that money being spent. Instead it will make the rich people even richer.

What was it Darwin said...?

"survival of the fittest".

Hmm... Keep Darwin out of economics. Enron applied the principle of 'survival of the fittest' by firing the bottom 10% of their workforce (by revenue generated). That only left them with the big risk takers & the extinction of their species (total collapse).