What do YOU think is the most serious issue your country faces?

This isn't an article it's just a general question. Using current events try to explain your opinion on what you think is the most serious where you are. =)


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I live in the US. And I think our serious issue is the economic state. We're losing money by the second, eternal deficit spending, etc, etc. Our dollar is practically dead. lol

 

I'd have to pick, Iraq, and the middle east. We went in with good intentions, and now we're just slowly digging our own graves. To be honest, I believe that we cant change the minds of those who are fighting right now, and once they can get it out of their systems, everything can be brought under the government's control. The US has been trying for years now, and it's not working, they should probably just give up before more of our soldiers die.

 

I agree. The war is a big problem. We never even started the war like we were supposed to according to the constitution--another big problem--and now we're getting candidates like McCain saying we'll be in there for100 years. o_O;

 

Not to mention, didn't we start out in Afghanistan? o.o

(Sorry if this is wrong, I was young when it started.)

 

Yeah. It was signed to over into Afghanistan for some reason I can't quite remember because I was 11 at the time. xD

Then it was Iraq.

Now Iran. *facepalm*

 

I think our leaders are like, LOL, LETS TAKE OUT ALL OF THOSE THREATS ALL AT ONCE EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO. :DDDD

 

I live in ths U.S. The economy is the most serious problem by far. The dollar is sinking and its very discouraging.

 

I live in the US too.

And gosh, it's hard to pick out one problem to talk about. We have so many!

Declining economy, the healthcare thing, stupid, stupid presidents, the war, tons of stuff.

I'd much rather live somewhere else.

 

that's an easy one, crime.

 

Hmm, big choice. I'd have to say first the economy is the worst problem we face. The dollar doesn't have real value anymore and jobs are so hard to find that are decent.

The war is another issue and we never should have gone into Iraq without first clearing up Afghanistan. Yes, I do think Saddam Hussein was a problem and was going to be one, whether they found WMDs there or not, but he was not the immediate concern. Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban were and we seriously lost focus going after Hussein. Had he made more of an offensive maneuver I'd have justified this more. Also, I feel that we should have done more against Hussein in Desert Storm when we actually -had- feasible support because he was trying to lead people through Jordan to attack Israel and had taken Kuwait. We did not have a reason in the current to go after him but speculation.

So the war has also had an effect on us economically and it blows. We really need to focus on making business happen more at home, less jobs that mean something going overseas and to go deal with Afghanistan and move soldiers out of Iraq if we are to be alright. Also, working on better relations with nations again is important. We have such an awful reputation right now from all of the cowboy politics from both Bush and Clinton. Both knew of the impending threat of 9/11 and did nothing. Both also gave out jobs etc to other countries we could use ourselves and really we have a nice hole now to dig ourselves out of because other nations truly hate us for the yeehaw attitude. All Americans are not like this. Most of us aren't. It's just hard to prove to other places when these idiots keep getting elected.

 

Repliku, you make a very good point. Our politicians suck.

VOTE RON PAUL.

 

Agreed, I'm in the US

 

living in the us, more specifically california, i feel like the most significant issue is our economic problems. school funding from the government has decreased at such a great rate that about 100 teachers in my city are being "laid off." it's hard also for colleges right now to support their own schools seeing that ucla dropped to about 8% acceptance rate this year, when previous years were about 10-12%. also the real estate business is suffering like a mother right now, especially for those who haven't bought homes with fixed interest rates, now they suffer in paying off their mortgages. it's really bad right now, gotta blame our governator.

 

My country, South Korea, is I'd say teh most busy streets and the most place where there are smokers. I mean when I visted to Korea, you could literaly smell smoke everywhere from smokers.

 

HANNAH *glomps* :3 I missed you.

It doesn't surprise me California is getting affected at such a significant amount. The big cities seem to be getting a LOT of blowback. If only Bush would stop spending so much damn money on the war, cut the foreign trade policy for a better one, and then fix our money so it doesn't include endlessly printing paper. >: *deep breath*

 

I live in the UK, specifically England, and personally I think the biggest trouble we have at the moment is discipline in young people.
Politicians at the moment are focusing on racial, crime and illegal immigration issues. The first 2 would not have been such a big problem today if people were taught discipline at an earlier age, something that no one seems to care about anymore. I mean, I know a lot of elder aged people in their 60s and 70s who had a strict childhood, and since than have always respected their elders and cared about their country thanks to a lot of discipline put in place by their parents and government. I myself am probably similar, thanks to my own parents and how they brought me up, but I see other kids at my school and on the streets and they don’t give a sh!t about anyone else but themselves and leads a lot of problems in later life such as breaking the law, not being able to get good grades in school, some even being told by their parents immigrants are a problem leading to some racial attacks and so on.
More recently, I was talking to my friend from school on MSN and he had to go because an elderly man on the road outside his house. The next day I talked to him, he said that his brother saw that this elderly man was just walking his dog down the street when this group of older teens came up and started kicking this guy to the ground for no apparent reason, he was half dead when the ambulance arrived and now he's recovering in hospital.
It just doesn't seem like anyone cares for anything than themselves anymore, and that’s thanks to no discipline.

 

That's pretty sad and some people are naturally just cruel like that. It's not even a matter of discipline as it is a matter that parents aren't communicating to kids about benevolence because they aren't showing kids benevolence and understanding in so many places. Parents really do need to spend more time with their kids and show them positive things about themselves and other people instead of giving kids so much negativity. It does seem a lot of parents instead just pass on traits of racism and intolerance, religious intolerance, bias, gender and sexual preference hatred etc and these parents seriously need their heads evaluated as they make it hard for decent parents and children to do the right things.

I've seen things like that including when growing up this boy a couple years older than me went and put a jar of urine on this old woman's doorstep and did other nasty things to her to scare her. She lived across from me and I used to mow her lawn and she'd sit around outside and tell me of times when she was growing up. It seems so nostalgic to remember listening to the stuff about her during some very hard times. In the end I went and beat the crap out of boy to get him to leave her alone because the parents of the boy kept covering for him and nothing was being done. My dad was then told of it by his dad and knowing what the boy had done he said to call the cops if he wanted to and my dad would help the woman across the street and others terrorized by the boy to see them all in court so the whole thing was dropped. However, after, my dad talked to me and said that though he sided with my action because no cops would do anything etc, I had to make sure I didn't solve all problems that way. Some kids are nasty whether they have good parents or not but many do just seem to have parents that neglect them or are way too strict. It kind of makes me hope when I'm a parent I make sure to find a happy medium because I don't want to be either to strict or too lenient when it comes to this. Parenting is a responsibility and I do agree that quite a few people are doing it wrong by either not wanting the responsibility and feeling it's thrust on them or they are selfish and just care about themselves.

 

my answer

my answer to the original question would have to be THE NEW (SECULAR)WORLD ORDER.

 

The biggest problems in the United States all fall back on the government. The economy? Regulated by the government. Oil crisis (which is making the economy worse)? Caused by war. Who initiates war? The government. The environment? So much of the pollution is caused because of industry and there is no regulation on CO2 footprints, which there should be. I think instead of inventing high-def everything, scientists and inventors should be creating more affordable ways to slowly switch to solar power. you can still have an emergency generator or whatever.

I'm sorry, but the United States Government has become a Joke. I'm not blaming any presidents or government figures specifically, but really. I just hope that someone can turn it around before another crisis comes up.

 

I agree, the main problem here is Knife Crimes (I've been hearing about those alot lately), racial slurs, and people mainly teens aren't behaving. I was on MSN the other day chatting to my friends, then this guy who used to be in my School came out and started swearing at us and saying that he was going to call his friends to beat us up. Then we had to tell our headteacher about the incident which involved the police, just like how one year ago, I guy that was in my school, Canons High School kept throwing eggs at people in school and carrying a knife, what happened to civilized people these days?

May I also mention the rising prices of Petrol and bills that you have to pay?