10 Signs the US is Becoming a Third World Country

I don't see how anyone counld downgrade this comment. It is so true, unless they do not like the truth. Don't just downgrade corndog67, state why you are doing so. I would be interested in your reasoning. Perhaps you could change my mind

Well Paratus, there are a lot of people in this country that feel entitled to having what others have, without any effort, without working for it. They also feel that the squatters that are taking over our country, deserve to be here, because they let their own country become a corrupt, murderous place to live, where the cops are on the take, the municipal officers are on the take, where the whole damn government is on the take, so it's ok for them to just come here and take over. Pretty soon, if it isn't happening already, when somehow they get the government to legalize them, and they start electing their own people, the corruption will become rampant here. After all, it's completely accepted in Mexico.

And the number of people on this site that hate anyone that has made a success of themselves, such as Bill Gates, or any of the oil guys, or any of the other big computer guys, is incredible. They aren't willing to work for what they want, so they hate those that are working for what they want.

so what your saying is, they took your jerb?

Right. And who isn't paying half the FICA taxes for those workers? Who is making the profits off their cheap untaxed labor? Which industries wouldn't have a business model if those illegal workers weren't here?

Who pays congress people to pass bills (or not) in this country who could fix this problem in a heartbeat? Who paid to get NAFTA passed?
You're nailing the wrong people. You're falling for the baiting they're putting out for you.

Soon, after more than a decade of capital flight from the US to create jobs somewhere else, it will be American citizens going across borders to work illegally! Watch out Canada. Who gains from all of this? These are the people who should be nailed.

But, we'll never hear about them in this corrupt Media reporting about anything going on in this country. Because divide and conquer and manipulation of voters is the way the Ruling Elite have always kept low taxes, profits from war budgets, profits from two tier labor markets and all the scapegoating that ensures that.

And this is the way our Top taxpayers earn their money? Which is protected as Private Property by this Bogus Supreme Court? We get what we deserve as a nation by this hypocrisy, indifference and willful ignorance!

Our politicians and businesses made their country corrupt. Our CIA meddles in these countries to serve our corporate interests. They're also making our country pretty corrupt. There is plenty of history on this and reporting by whistleblowers. Read "confessions of an economic hit man" by John Perkins. He squeals on decades of how our World Bank and the world's Plutocrats blew up these countries. The reason these people are here is NAFTA which floods their markets with our cheap subsidized corn from all over the Midwest.

By the way, we've let our country become corrupt too, which means so many of us are getting screwed while the Top 1% run Washington. The majority of tax money goes to Military. 50% of income tax take. 60% of US fed budget is FICA taxes which will be paid back to the people who paid them in.

These illegals having babies in public hospitals is tiny in comparison to what goes to the shareholders of military contractors.

"entitlements" in this country are paid for by the people who get them. The choice of use of that term is propaganda. They are entitled because they paid for it, and they worked for it.

The only people who don't work are the Top 1% who send cheques to congressmen and 501c3s for propaganda to ensure they don't have to pay taxes on the money their grandparent's made. Much of that from WWI and WWII. Even Civil War if you count the railroad fortunes, who got their start when state land was GIVEN to them to build railroads. They've always been subsidized, and now they get special abilities to game the system to keep their taxes low, and middle class in spiral. I know these people from the industrial revolution who winter in Naples. And yes, they do expect a lot to be given to them from the people who really do the work, take all the risks, and provide all the growth in this country. Too bad now, middle class kids can't get their educations and can't work cause there are no jobs since the Capital has been invested in China, Brazil. India, and Russia. Mexico here we come for 100M echo-boom kids under the age of 24 yrs, bigger than the Baby Boom!

And you wonder why you always have a negative rating.

Everytime i get voted down i feel like i must be doing something right on this site.

Oh so making stupid general statements is the right move huh?

Durrr Liberals are dumb durr

Enough with YOU conspiracy theorist knocking Infowars. Look through the propaganda being fed to you by the mainstream, be it Fox or MSNBC, or your favorite slanted web site. Fact is this nation is ruled by corporations, for the benefit of corporations. Infowars gives people a good starting point to research this issue. Ultimately it's up to the reader to sift through the bullshit as you would any other source, if you're serious about the truth, and not just ideology. But I for one am finished arguing with you people about who's in control of this rock, and who's gonna bnefit from their rule. It's the corporations and they don't care about you. Wake Up!

though you're statement about ignorance is true, i don't think it qualifies amreica to be a third world country.

Ignorance AND hate. We embarrass our nation on a nearly daily basis.

im glad to see there are people (fun_size) out there who arent ignorant of the truth!

i agree i think the info wars dudes haven't stepped outta their respective gated communities to have ever seen any real third world or they'd know how ridiculous this is to suggest... that guy hasn't missed a meal a day in his life

Explain the economics dear sir. While you are at it, explain how this america of yours is going to work out just fine and dandy. Rome had its day also. Oops, no more Rome. How did that happen? Agreed, a lot of lazy wackos out there on every side of the issues. But relying on a political solution, when that venue is bought and paid for is a little naive and gives what? False hope. It is all about the numbers and production. We just service debt and consume in this country. Not viable.

how else would it get assembled ? French! i get quite a few instructions in French mostly american model airplanes (chuckles) its called multi-national conglomerates that wanna sell in every market they dont want borders where they can sell there slave products they just want you to see borders and not be allowed to move freely then you might realize you the french guy and the spanish guy all got ripped off in three languages lol

Good thing we wiped out those Injuns or we would all be looking at Comanche/English instructions.

Why are people so afraid of other languages?

We share a border with a Spanish speaking nation, it's only natural that we incorporate Spanish into our culture. It has nothing to do with becoming a 3rd world nation.

Been looking at too many upskirts of Sarah Palin, have you?

Morons have already overrun us.

25? Make it 100. It's just picking up steam now, that's all.

The Industrial revolution was the catalyst, we just don't realize it yet.

Make that 40 years of no raise for you or me, brother. Guess we didn't earn it anyhow. The blood thirsty captains of industry are at the gates. Give up meat.

The New World Order? Are you serious? Most countries can't even balance their budgets. Consider, a New World Order could only exist in a world where everyone is satisfied and no one is trying to rock the boat. Other than that, discontent, anger, poverty and greed will always keep the masses roiling with discontent and unwilling to accept that the new chains will be any better than the old.

if and when the "nwo" comes to be its not gonna be any diff if you vote obama out, that was started years ago

The NWO 'HAS' come about from countries incurring debt to the World Bank/ IMF. These are global sub-prime loans to borrowers who will never pay them back. So consequently they will have their nation forclosed on. Not in the future, but right now! Here's a link with debts of various nations shown for you to look at.

http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/ddpreports/ViewSharedReport?REPORT_ID=13583&...

11. You're an idiot.

The wealthiest 1 percent of the population earn 19 per­cent of the income but pay 37 percent of the income tax. The top 10 percent pay 68 percent of the tab. Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent—those below the median income level—now earn 13 percent of the income but pay just 3 percent of the taxes. These are proportions of the income tax alone and don’t include payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare.

They like to spam several diverting scare tactic stories that discuss similar topics when they see a story they do not like.

They do this very reliably.

Totally agree. Media is a "product" in the USA that has to appeal to different tastes. They know what markets they're going for and what market they're trying to create. In the fearful mass middle they want to break some off the center for the right and so Fox has that job of fanning flames and inciting fear and hatred. They have to divide and conquer and manipulate in order to control. They had to get ownership of media concentrated and get rid of fairness doctrines in order to get this machine firmly in their hands. Came too close for comfort 1960s when media was diverse and reporting on the war and social unrest too much from too many viewpoints. They almost lost their hold on the nation's minds and assets back then.

Fortunately, under Reagan they got rid of fairness doctrines. They got rid of Congress funding for PBS and the dangerous people there trying to do real reporting. Then finally under Clinton they got the ownership restrictions lifted so now 8 corporations control 80% of the media/entertainment/sports in the whole country. Down from 50 in 1980. They had to get this, and they had to use Murdoch and his money as their tool. Now they have Clearchannel too. Richardsons of Texas control Disney and ABC. GE controls NBC, and CNBC. Gates controls MSNBC. Viacom controls CBS. Time Warner controls CNN and look what propaganda for Petraeus they put on their cover last week! It is all a joke!

There are no obligations to report any truth to American citizens. All exhibited by how they use CNBC and Jim Cramer et al to pump up the Bubbles to lure the suckers in who will be last in/last out when they finally pull out and cause the Bust. If you have any doubts about this game check out Jon Stewart's saga about Cramer. It is a joke to trust your money with these so called "markets".

The Supreme Court even lets them incite Americans against other Americans, foreigners, or immigrants we know damn well the drafters of NAFTA knew would be coming over that border to work in our food and construction industries. But, they can't tell the US citizens that, besides they need a second class citizen to scapegoat when the Bubble Busts. They had Jews in 1930s. and they need Latinos today. And Muslims of course!

All eyes off the people really pulling the strings, making a killing, and paying Politicians to pass that NAFTA bill in the first place now more than 10 yrs ago! Find out who paid $1M to get the AZ anti-Latino bill passed? Who paid to whip things up on gay marriage? Who pays to whip things up on gun rights? You'll see what kind of people are really behind all this political theater to distract us from their own class who cause the Bubble Busts, lure in the little guy into inflated asset markets, pay no taxes, squirrel money away offshore depleting US business and jobs, all the while using the media to lie, distort, deflect, scapegoat "created equal" citizens who are not treated equal by this Supreme Court. There will be hell to pay by this Court when this whole game is said and done. Their names will be mud in history books like Nero!

Dividing us on opinions is a huge part of the plan, after all.