EVEN CANADA LAUGHS
www.sodahead.com/united-states/canadas-top-ten-list-of-americas-stupidity/question-4020079/
This is pathetic!
But true!
Yep, we Americans are a hard act to follow.
It just makes you want to shake your head in disbelief.
Of course we look like idiots… because we are idiots.
This is modeled by a Canadian after David Letterman's Top Ten:
Canada's Top Ten List of America's Stupidities www.sodahead.com
Number 10
Only in America - can politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 per-plate campaign fund-raising event.
Number 9
Only in America - can people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black attorney general, and a federal workforce that is twenty-percent black while only fourteen percent of the population is black. More than forty percent of all federal entitlements go to black Americans. That's three times the rate of entitlements to whites and five times the rate to Hispanics!
Number 8
Only in America - can the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (former head of the Congressional Ways and Means Committee) BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
Number 7
Only in America - can terrorists kill people in the name of Allah, and have the media react primarily by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
Number 6
Only in America - can the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists".
Number 5
Only in America - can people who want to legally become American citizens have to wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while American national leaders discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens
Number 4
Only in America - can people be required to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
Number 3
Only in America - can people demand that the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gasoline went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) was less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
Number 2
Only in America - can the government collect more tax dollars from its citizens than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year (that's seven million dollars a minute), and still complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.
Number 1
Only in America - can the rich people, who pay eighty-six percent of all income taxes, be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.
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