Excuse me Dan but I am an American! The biggest problem that I have with MY country is that it is falling prey to special interests. Sure get ride of social programs to corporate enterprises and sure they will serve the publics needs but at what expense. More and more of our money is going into things such as medical costs. You work harder to get the same results you got a decade ago. I am not saying that Socialism is the answer, I rather believe there hybrid system we have works but needs work. I would just rather not be only seen as a customer but as a citizen. At the moment my government treats me as a potential terrorist and a customer and nothing more. It seems to me that the government has been serving corporate interests for the last 30 years rather than it's own constituency; that being the people. You do realize that 1/4 of Americans trust the US government, less Americans trust the government than during the Nixon period. Also it is true that Europe has relied on US military support but whenever the EU has talked about creating an EU defense force the US has come in and told the RU that the US will continue to protect the EU. It's a problem on both sides. My response about Socialism was more to go against this knee jerk reaction that so many have that Socialism is evil. Also I don't read the news papers here, you are right that they are biased. You have to realize that reporting of the news in the US is just as biased the other way.
BTW Swartzenegger is nothing like any of the Austrians today.
