The other day I came across this from a person that lives in Pakistan and they wrote this in their blog: (small piece):
United States of America due to its wrong policies and war strategies against countries like Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela, and Russia has destroyed its economy completely. Huge economic loss, unemployment, racism, liquidations, and cost of covering all these things (compensations) have made the economy badly suffer, time after time. More than 35 states of America are in deep trouble with poverty and joblessness.
Top six states with better economic situation are seriously thinking to discontinue with the United State Federal government because according to them, they are just paying for others expenses. These states strongly find the fact that their surplus economy is utilized for covering the deficit budget of the other states, due to which they are also suffering. If these states become Independent countries like 9 states separated from USSR, than there will be no more USA, and no more funding to be a super power, which may leads to a civil war in USA. If USA dissolve like USSR than there will be a huge problem in the world as present, there is no power to cope with the situation.
Now seriously this person talks like they know what's going on here and what went wrong. Yes the war played a small part in all this, but there is a lot more factors than just that. How things were deligated, some bad choice, the stock market (which helps to run this country), and a few other factors. But out of all these the stock market problems is what has help the most in how our economy is right now. It's not who the president is now or anything like that. And I will go on the record saying and I know I may get a lot of bad comments for this, but ooh well because if we weren't free to think and say what we want their our country isn't as free as we thought. But anyways, I was never and still am not a big fan of Mr. Bush. With that said no matter what I am always a big supporter of our troops, no matter who the president is. Ok I went into that because there are also a lot of people that think because President Obama is in office that is why everything is going up shit crick without a paddle, and honestly I am just wondering if your republican (lol j/k) but seriously where is your head. No matter who the president is or even was in the past, when they come into office they have to fix, makeup for, or cleanup what ever you want to call it all the wrongs of the president before them that they did in their 4 years or more of presidency and the new president has to do this during their term. So really if you think about it a new president may never get the chance to really show what they are made of. They may only be able to show how good they are at cleaning up after a past president.
I just thought I would say all this, because of people that can be so nieve that it tends to get under your skin and you can't wrap your head around to why they would lissen to everything that they are told by someone or something.
Keep an open mind no matter what it is and you'll tend to see the bigger picture of everything.