Good ole USA

What is the best thing about our country? The worst?

(Try to limit it to one answer for each)

[Rapunzel]

Re: Good ole USA

What is the best thing about our country? The worst?

(Try to limit it to one answer for each)

Best:

The Bill of Rights

Worst:

Hollywood

[Amiens]

Best- Bill of Rights and Constitution

Worst- American Celebrities, if you can even call some of them that.

[Sheherezade]

Best: Wealth of imagination and innovation of ideas

Worst: Money grubbing/keeping up with the Jones attitudes in both individuals and companies

[Meenah]

Best - I have to agree with Bill of Rights/Constitution

Worst - Bush & Cheney

[alison]

Best: It's beautiful (oceans, desert, prairie, mountains).

Worst: Bush and Cheney. I have to agree with Luanne here.

Best: Freedom to say whatever you want to say and (in theory) not be persecuted for it.

Worst: Govermental Gridlock, i.e. the way Washington works (or doesn't). Good ideas should just get to be done, not debated, attached, cut, approved and all of that crap.

[DCJenn]

Best: our all volunteer armed forces

Worst: the electoral college

[Vishenka69]

Best: Opportunities to be your best (or worst)
Worst: Uber conservative mentality (with exception of a few states)

[houseelf]

Best: Basic human freedom placed against the backdrop of capitalism, cutting edge technology, puritan work ethic, and a youthful optimism which have allowed this country to give birth things to amazing things in all the various disciplines: e.g. the computer, NASA, the car, rock and roll, and Disney world. Only in America,baby.

Worst: We don't take care of our own.

The problem with my choices, of course, is that there is a slight conflict between the two. How can we make capitalism work within a fair framework that provides the basic necessities for those who can not provide for themselves? This battle rages inside of me because both arguments are so compelling.

Kelly