Is America Really a Third-World Country?

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dude have you ever spun around america? or seen the less fortunate?
have you been to washington dc at all? that is one of the most poorest area's of the east coast and what about them children who can't even have three square meals a day
during the late 70's early 80's much of boston and brookline was quite in bad shape and most were either poor or living in a very low form of lifestyles
what about the kids from the south who live in trailer parks? or those even in west roxbury down on vfw parkway which one of boston's last trailer parks?
or those in northern new hampshire namely berliin new hampshire
still mostly undeveloped
quit your bitching and lying

i am the hefei king of MA 6:59AM May 20, 2010

infact
all countries are 1 way or another a 3rd world state
A. all countries are still developing including america
in america the poor are poorer than those in china
it's because in china . the government helps the people more often rather than the american government thus explaining why even poor people can also be smoking 555 cigs which would go for 30 50 rmb /4.41- 7 dollars a pack
and on average the chinese wold spend atleast 30 rmb for cigs many even as much as 22- 30 dollars just for 1 pack of cigs,.
and also that they spend alot of money on meals esp. when go to a restaurant
but their homes may look shallow yet there are more bmw's om china than there are in america and they cost twice as much as an american bmw
so , who are the rich and who are the poor
all you americans think too much of the 80's lifestyle in american history
I , too am an american but had moved to china 4 years ago

i am the hefei king of MA 6:52AM May 20, 2010

It's a vicious cycle when you get down to it. People are greedy and lazy deep-down. even if the recession ends, people will remain the same and what causes recessions? People. As long as people keep overspending, overusing their credit cards and overusing our resources, nothing will ever improve. In order for a change to occur, WE must change. People must change.

Christian Toomey of CA 11:27PM May 12, 2010

Not even close to a 3RD World country

Jon of ME 9:31AM February 05, 2010

The people and the government are still living large in upper first world style, but the strain of being maxed out on debt and facing bankruptcy is showing. We are the consuming part of the G2, so we can only ship wealth from shopping malls to China, which now has most of the manufacturing capacity.
On the other hand, we still have enormous natural resources to draw on for wealth, but of course population increases have an immediate effect of lowering wealth as per capita natural resources, and the population is booming. Some strain is appearing in non-renewable natural resources. Peak water in the southwest, peak oil, and global war are a sign of incipient overpopulation. Nevertheless we should be able to raise some cash by selling natural resources. Obama might want to sell Seward's Folly back to Russia to raise some cash and rid himself of his most creditable future opponent, Gov. Sarah Palin.
Another bright spot in the economy is our military supremacy. We can invade other countries and steal their wealth and enslave their people.

Luther of IL 2:48PM April 03, 2009