Americans are stupid

[sleep]

:surprise:

I certainly agree with that. The world is full of idiots not just the US

lisajones24, coming out of her shell!

 

[zdenka]

Didn't they (America) invented internet?

 

[xfire]

You fail at hating America.

LOL!!! Except that 90% of of america's GDP is produced in China and other foreign countries! Take "Foreign Content" out of the GDP and how much is left??? LOL!

90%, you say?

http://www.measuringworth.com/glossary/gdp.html

17 percent of U.S. spending on goods and services are produced overseas.

Here's a right-wing source for you-

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10652

Politicians who disparage investment in foreign operations are wedded to an outdated and misguided economic model that glorifies domestic production for export above all other ways for Americans to engage in the global economy. They would deny Americans access to hundreds of millions of foreign customers and access to lower-cost inputs through global supply chains. In short, they would cripple American companies and their American workers as they try to compete in global markets.

I've never understood why so many focus on only the bad. I said several posts above that America has some of the dumbest fuckers in the world. But, we've also got the smartest, by far, in the world, as well. Such is the case when you've got such a large population. The dumbest and smartest are outliers and most of us fit neatly in the normal distribution of a simple bell curve. Anyone that doesn't understand that doesn't have any latitude in accusing anyone else of anything.

 

[zdenka]

This thread seems a bit racist to be honest. Considering that America is made up of Blacks, Whites, Asians, Latinos and just about every other race in the World... so all these races are dumb? :dunno:

 

[Krazy4Kobe]

You fail at hating America.



90%, you say?

http://www.measuringworth.com/glossary/gdp.html

You fail at understanding basic economics! LOL!

"GDP is a measure of the total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a year."

"In other words, GDP is total spending on newly produced goods and services."

So, yeah, take away ALL the goods that are BOUGHT in mcmerica which are PRODUCED in China et al, and your GDP falls drastically!

Not to mention that your GDP is almost wholly based on DEBT (don't worry, you're not the only one).

Not sure what 'right wing/left wing' has to do with anything....also a predominantly american obsession. Weird.


Oh well, not my problem.

 

[Supafly]

Here is a video that is so mindboggling that it kind of settles the whole debatte.

I quote:

United States Congressman John Shimkus (R-Il.) puts all of our minds at ease about global warming. Both because of what it says in some ancient texts AND because of his absolute certainty about it. We should all breathe a sigh of relief knowing THIS guy is making life and death decisions for us.

This is from the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment - March 25th 2009

Nutjobs like him are even ALLOWED into comittees?

I rest my case.

 

[Krazy4Kobe]

LOL!!!

Whatever happened to 'Separation of Church and State'?!?!
(First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...)

LOL!!!

AH....gotta love all the old, white, christian men who control government!

Ya get what ya vote for!

 

[Krazy4Kobe]

US Constitution First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."

Guess this CONGRESSman think a religious text trumps his own laws! LOL!

Hey...wait a second...why did he mention DINOSAURS?!?!
That was only 6,000 years ago LOL!
According to his carbon data, it's a 0.04% annual loss of carbon since the age of the dinosaur.
Wonder how much of that took place in the last 50 years?


p.s. -- LOVE the chick in the background trying very hard not to laugh at his every word! LOL!

 

[xfire]

I gave you a link that flat refuted your claim that "90% of U.S. GDP is produced overseas". Why don't you "LOL" your way to a college education?

You fail at understanding basic economics! LOL! "GDP is a measure of the total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a year." "In other words, GDP is total spending on newly produced goods and services." So, yeah, take away ALL the goods that are BOUGHT in mcmerica which are PRODUCED in China et al, and your GDP falls drastically! Not to mention that your GDP is almost wholly based on DEBT (don't worry, you're not the only one). Not sure what 'right wing/left wing' has to do with anything....also a predominantly american obsession. Weird. Oh well, not my problem.

 

[Krazy4Kobe]

I gave you a link that flat refuted your claim that "90% of U.S. GDP is produced overseas". Why don't you "LOL" your way to a college education?

LOL!

That link did no such thing.

But who am I to stand in your way of believing the unbelievable?


LOL!

 

[xfire]

Should I lump all West Coast Canadians into the same idiot pile that you're on top of? "LOL". Literacy is more than merely being able to identify words. Try comprehension.

GDP is a measure of the total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a year. In other words, GDP is total spending on newly produced goods and services. In the United States, annual GDP is about 14 trillion dollars, meaning that amount is spent on U.S output in one year.

Four general groups are buying what is produced. The households buying food, HDTVs, medical care and whatever else they want and can afford to spend constitute about 70 percent of GDP. Another 15 percent of GDP consists of spending by business firms to purchase new capital equipment, buildings, and inventories. Taking up about 19 percent of GDP is spending of government on items such as schools, highways, and Air Force F-16s. Finally, production of goods and services for export is 12 percent of GDP. This adds up to more than 100 percent, because 17 percent of U.S. spending on goods and services are produced overseas.

 

[Ulysses31]

Didn't they (America) invented internet?

The 'popular' internet/World Wide Web that we all know and love was invented by Brit Sir Tim Berners-Lee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

This thread seems a bit racist to be honest. Considering that America is made up of Blacks, Whites, Asians, Latinos and just about every other race in the World... so all these races are dumb? :dunno:

I don't see race as relevant, you can only be as smart as the educational institutions in the country you live in allow and often the culture existing within that country determine how people behave. Will ethnic Japanese living outside Japan be as driven and determined as those living in Japan, will ethnic Brazilians born and raised outside of Brazil be as fanatical about football, will Arabs living in Eorope be as conservative as Arabs living in the Middle East and will ethnic Germans living outside Germany (inc many in the US) be an industrious (and homocidal) as Germans living in Germany :dunno:

 

[zdenka]

The Internet (i.e., protocols for connecting multiple computers, and local area networks in an extensible fashion without central management authority) was invented in the U.S., by researchers at ARPA / DARPA.

Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf[1] (/ˈsɜrf/; born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of[4] "the fathers of the Internet"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf

The Internet precedes 'WWW'

 

[Krazy4Kobe]

Should I lump all West Coast Canadians into the same idiot pile that you're on top of? "LOL". Literacy is more than merely being able to identify words. Try comprehension.

"The households buying food, HDTVs, medical care and whatever else they want and can afford to spend constitute about 70 percent of GDP."

LOL!!!

Where do you think all that shitty plastic crap comes from??? CHINA!!!
Comprehend that!

LOL!!!


Keep livin' the dream, my fine mcmerican friend, keep livin' the dream!

LOL!!!

 

[xfire]

"The households buying food, HDTVs, medical care and whatever else they want and can afford to spend constitute about 70 percent of GDP." LOL!!! Where do you think all that shitty plastic crap comes from??? CHINA!!! Comprehend that! LOL!!! Keep livin' the dream, my fine mcmerican friend, keep livin' the dream! LOL!!!

Why don't you post some real statistics, instead of making shit up?

http://news.yahoo.com/made-china-goods-only-small-sliver-u-consumption-222755502.html

Politicians and pundits talk often talk of the undue sway Chinese businesses have over American consumers without the hard numbers to back up claims. So Galina Hale and Bart Hobijn, two economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, have stepped in to do the mathematical heavy-lifting. What they've found is that only 2.7 percent of U.S. consumers purchases have the "Made in China" label.

 

[Krazy4Kobe]

As above: Keep livin' the dream, my fine mcmerican friend, keep livin' the dream!

 

[robot_r0ck]

"The households buying food, HDTVs, medical care and whatever else they want and can afford to spend constitute about 70 percent of GDP."

LOL!!!

Where do you think all that shitty plastic crap comes from??? CHINA!!!
Comprehend that!

LOL!!!


Keep livin' the dream, my fine mcmerican friend, keep livin' the dream!

LOL!!!

...someone seems like an American hater. (LOL!!! LOL!!! SUPER LOL!!! *posting sarcastic annoying LOL's*)

Why don't you post some real statistics, instead of making shit up?

http://news.yahoo.com/made-china-goods-only-small-sliver-u-consumption-222755502.html



It's a shame that being a dumb fucking bastard isn't worthy of a ban because you would be first in line, K4K.

:dito: I think Krazy4Kobe is a little "slow".

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

LOL!

That link did no such thing.

But who am I to stand in your way of believing the unbelievable?


LOL!

"The households buying food, HDTVs, medical care and whatever else they want and can afford to spend constitute about 70 percent of GDP."

LOL!!!

Where do you think all that shitty plastic crap comes from??? CHINA!!!
Comprehend that!

LOL!!!


Keep livin' the dream, my fine mcmerican friend, keep livin' the dream!

LOL!!!

As above: Keep livin' the dream, my fine mcmerican friend, keep livin' the dream!

Seriously, for a person who continues to insinuate that America is an inferior culture to yours, you do sure spend a bit of time fascinating about us. :1orglaugh Do you honestly think we Yankees fascinate about your culture the way you do about us?

 

[Krazy4Kobe]

Nope. And don't care.

You just fantasize about our oil and other abundant natural resources...like a fully functioning banking system.

Other than that, you seem to have your hands full fantasizing about a fraudulent glory.

I'll leave you be to sort your mess out.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Nope. And don't care.

You just fantasize about our oil and other abundant natural resources...like a fully functioning banking system.

Other than that, you seem to have your hands full fantasizing about a fraudulent glory.

I'll leave you be to sort your mess out.

I already live in the state with the highest life expectancy rate, most educated populace, most citizens with the franchise in the country. I don't envy anything in Canada. You also admit more immigrants per capita than any other country in the Western world and I've heard numerous of your brethren bitch and moan about that on this particular forum. So, what's to envy?

And as far as your oil, we are going to take it from you because our countries have the most intimate economies in the Western world. Don't worry though, you will be compensated. And speaking of oil, we have our own oil, but since we're on the subject, what's a gallon of petrol cost you up that way anyway?