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One thing to throw off an Empire,another to take it's place. If you think being subjugated feels bad enough that you want to make your own path in life, what makes walking over others any the better for it

Where exactly is the American Empire? We liberate and leave. Are you implying we now occupy and control Germany and Japan etc? Did we steal their natural resources and enslave their people?...Please.

When it comes to oil, we developed it for the murdering savages and then WE PAY THEM FOR IT! Probably a big mistake.

When we do decide to develop our own vast untapped offshore resources and alternate energy technology (should it EVER become necessary) they can go pound sand.

It's amongst other things called arrogance - and it ain't liked. The british have it in bundles, the French in packets

True enough, we don't like it either, the French have a lot of damn Gaul...they can't even get plumbing figured out, even after being shown how. They have absolutely nothing to be snotty about.

and the Americans in their daily life

There's a difference, it's called confidence. We have the freedom to make our own way, to create wealth from a position of poverty and we have no real infrastructure of social classes. American workers are the most productive in the world, and our stock market is the envy of the financial world. We should be ashamed? I think not.

We got to be the world's only superpower by the cooperative effort of individuals of all races and the opportunity to succeed (economic freedom). The rest of the world is envious (resentful) because we did it without the help of their phony socialism.

We have bailed out Europe several times now, most recently in Bosnia. Europe, who gave us Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Musolini, and they have the BALLS to look down their nose at us? (Arrogant bastards) By the way, I hear Europe is currently on the verge of economic collapse.

Even our poor are the richest in the world. Most Americans regardless of class have color tvs, air conditioning, automobiles, computers.

so much so they think they have a right to it

We do have a right to it (confidence). Our rights come from the creator, not from a government or other men. Certainly not from other nations. We WILL NOT let those rights be taken.

Perhaps you should read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights (US Constitution) available in your local set of encyclopedia. That is what makes American conservatives tick.

mav