What good is it to be a super power?

[literacyadvocate]

We advertise that we are #1 in the world (and at many things we sure are!).

We throw our weight around telling countries to curb pollution, do better at human rights and how to assist us in the global war on terror.

We fight terror elsewhere so we can keep our populace safer.

We assist other countries to ward off terrorists and aspiring dictators.

But it is time to ask this - What good does it do to be a super cop of the world, but not being able to handcuff the biggest polluter (bp) in our own country?

When will this super power be able to uphold its own criminals to the same justice that it advocates for the world?

[flvegan]

1. Oh, we're more than *able* to handcuff them.

It's the fact that we've chosen not to that comes to my mind first.

[Robert DAH Bruce]

2. We get Listened To

Praise Jesus with me!

[tekisui]

3. We are no longer a super power.

The quicker we realize that the better off we, and the world will be. We need quit acting like we still run the show.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. We get to be in the history books as another failed empire.

[leftstreet]

5. Yeah but, we're safe from the al Qaeda navy n/t

[mix]

6. It benefits quite a few actually.

[literacyadvocate]

7. Great graphic!

I am seeing that for the first time and what an accurate depiction!

[jp11]

11. Exactly.

Being a 'superpower' means the rich can get richer in the country where they own the government and increase their shares every year.

[mix]

12. It also means that the middle classes are invested in empire.

We all are unfortunately since being a superpower underpins American life...Very few have any consciousness of this and very few can extricate themselves.

[pundaint]

8. It gives us pride, while our nation crumbles beneath us.

It gives our money something to do instead of being wasted on improving the lot of the citizens of the United States.
It lets the stupids participate, even the stupid can fight.
It funds large campaign contributions to a corrupt Congress.

[Paper Roses]

9. I'd like to know who appointed us #1?

I am tired of hearing the old phrase, "we are the greatest country in the world". Maybe we were but I think we have lost a lot of that glory.

We can talk until we're blue in the face about helping those who are less fortunate. About all our accomplishments. About things we want to do. Can't do it on an empty purse.

War is no help except to those who profit from it.

Shoveling money is not the cure for the ills of the world. Stop the wars, care for those at home first. We are not fixing what is wrong, we are making it worse.

We are at the point in history that we need to take care of ourselves or we will find ourselves on the bottom of the heap, not the top.

[Greyhound]

10. We did steal the best real estate on the planet. n/t

[Kablooie]

13. I've always thought that America has so much fertile soil that it will always be influential.

Farmable land and is one resource that we are richer in than any other country.