Another way of saying "misery loves company". Explain to me how I am to blame for their situation. I don't even know any muslims, nor do I feel any responsibility for someone half-way around the world, who may live in poverty and dire circumstances through no fault of my own. The reference to the pie-chart is classic Liberal-think, i.e. that wealth is a zero-sum game. The idea that because one group of people has more, it means that they took it from the others is pure bull-winky! Our own economy proves it. If it were a zero-sum game, our economy could not expand, there would be no talk of increase in the GDP or GNP, and with each passing generation, as our population expanded, the wages, quality of life, and living standard would go down. Look at America's history, and you can see that's not the case. If it were, the Founding Fathers would have had the best lives, and each succeeding generation would have been less prosperous, and we'd be in a total state of anarchy by now.
The real problem is the fact that in those countries, the state is the religion, and the religion is the state. Without a free market economy, rule of law by the people, with the power to change laws that are abused and abusive, and checks and balances on the government, as well as personal freedom, those countries will never pull themselves out of the quagmire. When they point fingers at America, it is out of jealousy, not religious principle. And yet we have people in this country who would give it all away, out of some twisted sense of "fairness" and "leveling the playing field", and misplaced guilt. Instead of feeling guilty for the blessings we have received, we need to vigorously export our values, our system, our constitutional form of government. Some would call that Imperialism, showing that they know nothing about how governments and economies work.
Isn't it better to do what we can to "raise the tide", which will raise all boats? Or do we do what the Third World wants: drain the harbor, so all the boats are equally grounded and unable to move?
I don't even know any muslimsToo bad, you could have found some to teach the American way to. The ones you taught might have been the ones to foil the attack on the WTC.
nor do I feel any responsibility for someone half-way around the world, who may live in poverty and dire circumstances through no fault of my ownPerfect. That's why they don't give a sh*t about you either, and since they see your country as an ally of their enemy, they peg you as an enemy.
Arabs actually believe if the US was a poor backward country like Islamic countries are, they would be better off. They're insane.