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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean Japan can afford all that because they aren’t really funding a military are they?  We are their defense.  Did they have that great infrastructure before the war?  We didn’t destroy the entire country.

The US is by no means the perfect place but it really bothers me when people visit abroad and suddenly think they are so worldly to come home and trash their home country because they spent two weeks visiting tourist traps.  The world is a bit more complicated than that and if you truly were well-traveled you would know this.

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So isn’t it a reasonable conclusion based on what you wrote to say, “hey, maybe we should be spending less money on military jets that are so poorly designed that they crash immediately after takeoff, and more money on our citizens and infrastructure?”[/quote]

Yes, I never said it wasn’t. I simply explained why it’s likely the Japanese can afford those projects. It’s also a bad look to negatively compare the hand that feeds you after a mere snapshot of the greener grass. As a tourist, you have zero understanding of the challenges of living in another country but your own. I’ve lived abroad in many different countries and once you pull back the curtain you understand every place is less than ideal. [/quote]

Having a critique of your country’s failures is not “biting the hand that feeds you.”  I find that statement just completely bizarre.  We have lived with a lot of complacency for a long time and for people to recognize that is a good thing.

I’ve actually lived abroad, but in a poorer country, and it alarms me how much of the dysfunction in the US is making it seem more and more like that country over time.  So sort of a reverse perspective.  [/quote]

Such a DC/East Coast bubble!  Travel and live in other parts of your own country for a different perspective.  [/quote]

Wow, you couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Try not making assumptions about posters you disagree with.[/quote]

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