Are you guys sick of the USA?

Seriously, is Bill Gates a friend of President Obama, yes ? Just a question. :hmm:
 
Buffalo said:
I don't think I was eligible for SSI because I have some savings. I was eligible for SSDI instead.
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I'm not sure if the amount varies from state to state, but I know that in the state of North Carolina, you're not eligible for SSI if you have more than $2,000 in savings. My first application was denied for this reason.

I just paid a few medical bills here and there and reapplied. :giggle:
 
I want to tell you guys - I appreciate the replies i've gotten in here.

A lot of you guys were pretty good, even the ones who told me to get the hell out. That's perfectly fine. I totally respect that because if I was totally patriotic I would do the same.

I've not talked to the lady who was in the military and having the issues I listed here in a few days. Waiting on getting a hold of her...
Just wanted to update you guys.

--please no underage sex talk. totally irrelevant.
 
Good Bye!

I wonder if we can pass a law for those who hate the USA and want to leave. The law should be that we will pay for the plane or boat ticket to country of choice as long as the individual sign and agree to terms the he/she will never, never, ever, ever set foot back on US soil again.:hmm:
 
Sorry but free speech allows anyone in the U.S. to complain about anything. We have to listen to the whiners and crazies. It's the price that we pay.
 
CJB said:
I'm not sure if the amount varies from state to state, but I know that in the state of North Carolina, you're not eligible for SSI if you have more than $2,000 in savings. My first application was denied for this reason.

I just paid a few medical bills here and there and reapplied. :giggle:
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It is $2000 limit in the state of Michigan. I don't know about Arizona. That is why I apply for SSDI instead of SSI the day I lost my job. Yup, I went straight to the Social Security office on the way home. I just knew I won't be looking for a job because I already had a "job" looking after my mother.
 
sallylou said:
Sorry but free speech allows anyone in the U.S. to complain about anything. We have to listen to the whiners and crazies. It's the price that we pay.
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Not exactly.

Yes, "free speech allows anyone in the U.S. to complain about anything."

But we also have the right not to listen to the complaining. We don't "have to listen to the whiners and crazies." :P
 
Reba said:
But we also have the right not to listen to the complaining. We don't "have to listen to the whiners and crazies." :P
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And that is why I LOVE THE IGNORE FEATURE in AllDeaf. :rockon:
 
Reba, I forgot about the off feature on my HAs! Silly me! :laugh2:
 
Am I sick of the good ol' United States of America?

In general, I'd say no, I haven't got to that point yet. Sure, we've all had a lot of laws that may seem dumb or witless. We've had a lot of endless political topics that just seems to go nowhere. Health Insurances that are spiking up which causes an uproar. Foreclosures. We've seen how it affects one and another. We've seen people that are outraged at the government. We've seen people that are at the point where they wring each other's neck. We've seen some good samaritans (yes there's still some out there, I'd like to believe) and bad people out there. We've seen complainers/whiners as well as happy-go-lucky peoples. The list goes on and on. You get the picture.

What I am saying is, Even though in our darkest hours in this country - There's one thing I do know of; When there's an opportunity that rises, we all can either take up to it or pass it. Choices are what made this country good because we still have the freedom to make a choice. It's not about how we have to be symmetrical or asymmetrical. We can move or either stay.

Granted, I may have at a point got sick of some overzealous people who may be overbearing on the same issues. I may have got sick of how lame it can become. I may have got sick of how things were going to be run; but -- It doesn't mean that it would force me to leave this country.

There is not ONE country that is perfect.
 
posts from hell said:
You saw the title.

I am a Deaf to the core individual that absolutely dislikes the USA for many reasons.

I'm about to move out to ANY other country. I seriously believe any other country can be better than the USA. (Yes, this list includes Burkina Faso, South Africa, and Colombia.)

If you want to know some stuff:
  • The USA media is constantly lying to you. This is the reason I do not have a TV.
  • The government has so many BS agenda up their asses it's unbelievable. They have bloated so much that we as a nation feel powerless. This is when they start shredding the constitution and laugh in your faces.
  • For a such fine nation we are in - a recent poll has shown that less than 25% of Oklahoma high school students knows the first President's name, much less the term used for the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
    This is a hidden agenda by our government/education system for the sole purpose of making America lack the knowledge needed to make government more accountable, transparent as it needs to be.

Seriously. Now, our mighty fine President has been working on a health care plan that will FINE you if you do not have health care.
In other countries, such as France, Norway, England, Canada, and EVEN Cuba!, health care is a requirement by law to be provided to you by the government.

So that guy who just got a part-time job and is very excited about it pretty much got screwed. I'm not sure if his part-time filing job pays enough for him to cover rent, food, and health care at a minimum.

That's America to you.

Oh, on a side note, I'll prefer to move to Norway, Sweden, Denmark. I like Iceland as well. But I want easy access to the beer in Sweden/Belgium, and the tables in Monaco.

Discuss.
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I have 1/2 of mind to move out of USA myself. i dont think America is doing anything good to us at all. There is a lot of informations out there that we dont know that we need to know. :roll: For me, i thinking of moving to Germany or UK for that matter. :)
 
This is a country worth fighting for.

God bless the USA ever since the day I was born.
 
I do feel that way most of the time about living in america- freedom does indeed come with a price- a heavy price we all pay one form or another.

I agree 100% how screwed up we pay back those who put their lives on the line for us. There are so many homeless vets on the streets because we dont have the "money" or "resources" to do programs to help their issues yet we're still sending out more and more troops back out there out of our country when we even can't take care of our own.

I do agree 100% on lazy deaf people on SSI- but whose fault is it the government who's too nice to them or is it the deaf person's fault?

Do I care about the injustice caused by the service people/ssi/medicaid system: NO. Yes I do pay the price of not caring through my paychecks.

I do care more about the service animals people forget about. Those dogs that served in the miltary are deemed to be dangerous to be adopted to families or be allowed to live out their lives in peace are put down just because what they have been trained to do. That's the thanks they get. I do not care about people. I do give a ounce of damn about the animals in this world. Once the world starts paying attention to their own animals then I'll start caring about its people.

For myself my hope is that- sometimes being in the dark is better than being in the light to get the world back on track. Hence the evolution process wiping out some populations one at a time. I'm waiting for the day where the smartest and the fittest survives.

But what is the point of living in the states when you're focusing on the negative instead of the positive. No matter how far you run, no matter how far you jump- the states influence will always be there- you are the product of the USA, no matter how much you struggle against it.

That will always ring true for the British Empire of what its legacy is "the sun never sets on the British Empire" that was the well known phrase during its heyday. This will ring true of the state's influence in every corner of the world for the lifespan of yours....

Start running.
 
I felt like you when I was in my early twenties, and so I left for 6 months studying abroad in the UK. The saying that you never learn to appreciate something until it is gone is true. What I came to realize in that time was that despite how screwed up our country can be (of course, my opinion of what is "screwed up" is vastly different from someone like, say, Kokonut's), there is no other place like it.

We are the best, and we are also the worst. We are the richest country on earth, and yet 30% of our population lives in poverty. We have the most, and best universities doing the most innovative research and creating the products that change mankind (we invented the Internet, bitches!), and yet we have the biggest ignoramuses you can imagine living in Alabama, Georgia, and well, even in California and New York. We are fat, lazy, and unhealthy, and yet we have the best athletes in the world, the biggest professional sports culture, and the most diverse range of recreation and athletics facilities available to our citizens. The packaged food you buy in our supermarkets is so unhealthy that other countries won't even import it, and yet when you go to the local farmer's market, you find the freshest, healthiest organic vegetables and products in the world. California feeds the entire world. We've provoked more wars, are ultimately responsible for the deaths of more innocent foreign civilians than any other country (aside from Germany) in the 20th century. And yet, the amount of foreign aide and philanthropist organizations our country oversees dwarfs the rest of the so called "industrialized" nations.

We had Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, and Miles Davis before we allowed the pressures of being famous in our country to kill them. We invented jazz, the blues, LSD, and Playboy magazine. Or in other words, we embody the spirit of sex, drugs, rock and roll. We are going to hell, but we'll do it in style, cause we are fucking awesome.

So, Posts from Hell and other dissenters, you can say whatever you want about the USA. That is your right, a right that no other country recognizes to the degree that we do, along with many other rights, but there is also another right you have. You have the right to leave.

As for me, I love the USA enough that I will stay and try to make it a better place than it already is. And even if Kokonut were my next door neighbor, I would be proud to set aside my differences once a year, on our country's birthday, shotgun a shitty can of Budweiser and grill some antibiotic-laced hotdogs on the grill while chanting USA! USA! USA! with him.

*fistbump* to Kokonut :D
 
Alright Captain Killjoy, I'm taking back my *fistbump*
 
America is the land of the plenty...and we should be rightfully proud of that.
 
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