Japan vs US

["W"]

Just some observations I have seen over the last 3 days after this deadly earthquake and tsunami.

I have come to realize Japan is 100x better than the U.S.

#1) You have not seen any one shooting helicopters from roof tops
#2) You have not seen any one looting or walking with 50inch TVs and Nike Shoes around there neck
#3) You have not seen them blame Bush for this Tsunami
#4) You dont see them sitting and waiting for FEMA
#5) We nuked Japan to dirt and they have became a better country over the last 65 years and we never have a bomb hit our soil

Makes you think that we dont need terrorist to destroy our country or kill our people...The Government is doing it everyday

[LaAngler]

mother nature never fails to impress

also nuke power is only real option over coal/gas, glad they only had a hydrogen explosion

[muttmechanic]

i thought the news said they had a nuclear meltdown

[LaAngler]

the rods are melting but i don't think the reactors vessels were blown open

[eman]

Originally Posted by "W"

Just some observations I have seen over the last 3 days after this deadly earthquake and tsunami.

I have come to realize Japan is 100x better than the U.S.

#1) You have not seen any one shooting helicopters from roof tops
#2) You have not seen any one looting or walking with 50inch TVs and Nike Shoes around there neck
#3) You have not seen them blame Bush for this Tsunami
#4) You dont see them sitting and waiting for FEMA
#5) We nuked Japan to dirt and they have became a better country over the last 65 years and we never have a bomb hit our soil

Makes you think that we dont need terrorist to destroy our country or kill our people...The Government is doing it everyday

Uhhh -Did you foget Pearl Harbor???

[Bluechip]

Originally Posted by eman

Uhhh -Did you foget Pearl Harbor???

Apparantly so....and so did the person he copied it from.

[all star rod]

Originally Posted by Bluechip

Apparantly so....and so did the person he copied it from.

Blue.....X2......so W why don't you move there since it is 100X greater than the U.S. True we have issues here in the U.S.
BUT IT IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. I work for a Swiss owned compnay (which Sulzer is a great company to work for) and we have locations all thru the world. Guess where all of our employees want to work....... THE UNITED STATES......

[flounder_smacker]

he would fit in better height wise

[all star rod]

Originally Posted by flounder_smacker

he would fit in better height wise

True, but sure not "EDUCATION" wise.....

["W"]

Originally Posted by eman

Uhhh -Did you foget Pearl Harbor???

Im just saying like I see it.....Never said I like them just saying you dont see them running around like idiots on the news and stealing everything in a disaster

[simplepeddler]

The Japanese people have a tremendous sense of order.
They are extremely disciplined.

And they follow instructions and do not always assume they know everything OR are owed anything.

But you can bet you sweet petunia that the US will be POURING in money from individuals to churches to the government.

I wonder...........


Just how much will other countries participate....

AND while it is true we nuked them to dirt.......we also rebuilt them. Much like we are doing in Iraq now.

[Duck Butter]

They got real *****S over there though

["W"]

HIROSHIMA1945


HIROSHIMA - 65 YEARS LATER


DETROIT- 65 YEARS AFTER HIROSHIMA

What has caused more long term destruction - the A-bomb,
or U. S. Government welfare programs created to buy the
votes of those who want someone to take care of them?

Japan does not have a welfare system.
Work for it or do without.

["W"]

Originally Posted by simplepeddler

The Japanese people have a tremendous sense of order.
They are extremely disciplined.

And they follow instructions and do not always assume they know everything OR are owed anything.

But you can bet you sweet petunia that the US will be POURING in money from individuals to churches to the government.

I wonder...........


Just how much will other countries participate....


AND while it is true we nuked them to dirt.......we also rebuilt them. Much like we are doing in Iraq now.

They dont need a dime from us....I know we will give them money we do not have but there not in debt 14trillion....and have no welfare and have no idiots like we do.....Just saying

[eman]

W again you are wrong. Japan DOES have a welfare system.
They just don't have *****s sucking the system dry.


Japan has a welfare system that in some ways makes even the new, dismantled American system seem a model of generosity. Applicants in Japan are obliged to get help first from their families, and a poor person physically able to work is not eligible for help -- whether or not the person actually has a job.
From some perspectives, this system has worked brilliantly. The country's already strong family ties have been strengthened, and the main safety net is the family rather than the Government. The number of Japanese in the basic welfare program has declined sharply over the last half century, as people became better off and built up savings.
Today only 0.7 percent of the population receives benefits -- compared with the 4.8 percent of Americans who get grants from Aid to Families With Dependent Children or the 9.7 percent who receive food stamps. About 2.3 percent of Americans receive grants through the Supplemental Security Income program, which serves the elderly, blind and disabled.
To be sure, Japan's welfare system operates in a very different milieu from America's. Only 1 percent of Japanese births are to unwed mothers. That compares with a percentage that keeps climbing in the United States and has now reached 30 percent.
Japan also has a far lower percentage of drug addicts than the United States has, a much lower unemployment rate, a much more egalitarian distribution of wealth, a greater sense of family obligation and an abiding sense of shame that colors almost every aspect of life.
The Japanese have a great sense of pride, honor and family. It is a dishonor to have to accept welfare if you are physically able to work.
The people and the country will recover with or with out any help.

[PathfinderNI]

The lastest figures I've heard are that 40,000,000 people in the U.S. now are on food stamps! This would move that 9% up to 13+%. Another amazing statistic to me is that 60% of the ***** babies in New York are aborted every year! Nope, I'm not even going to call the mothers crime stoppers either.

["W"]

Originally Posted by PathfinderNI

The lastest figures I've heard are that 40,000,000 people in the U.S. now are on food stamps! This would move that 9% up to 13+%. Another amazing statistic to me is that 60% of the ***** babies in New York are aborted every year! Nope, I'm not even going to call the mothers crime stoppers either.

44,000,000
look at the National debt clock....on the lower right

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

[PathfinderNI]

Can't stand to watch all those debt numbers piling up! Food stamp recipients have moved up some more by that number to 14% of the population now. Bad thing is that once you start getting government help, you get attached to it and don't want to give it up....kinda like the union folks in Wisconsin where bus drivers can make $150,000 a year!

[simplepeddler]

It's amazing to me that people can think welfare is "good enough" and raise generations of children to think the same way......but that can't think one cheese burger is good enough, or the rims and tires the car came with is good enough or the stereo or a 19 inch tubular television and I can go on and on...........

with the government handouts we are racing into mediocrity at break neck speed.
We slow our class rooms down to the slowest student while countries like Japan and India teach those students a modest SELF SUPPORTING trade and pressure the heck out of the top performers to .........well perform.

Japan will be rebuilt in half the time we could do it and with half the money it would take us to do it.

I am not saying they are better......what I am saying is, if we do not get off our collective lazy asses as a country we WILL be passed by.

[Salty]

Originally Posted by Bluechip

Apparantly so....and so did the person he copied it from.

He thinks Pearl Harbor is a new boat launch on Big Lake.