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What America Does Right

Bob Maxey

Bob Maxey

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So what do you think? Have any great things to say about America and the great people that work hard and create amazing stuff? I would like to list those things we do better than anyone else. Be it a product, service, idea, or whatever.

All I ask is you post things you know originated here and no fights.
 
Edit-Image removed due to cry babies! http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/357america****yeah.jpg
 
We do a hell of a job exporting middle income jobs to cheap labor overseas and an equally good job enriching the already rich.
 
I believe the US Constitution,democracy,freedoms,our many inventions and our ability to help those in need are our greatest assets.
 
Wow. Our greatest asset: allowing people who want to destroy this country do it.

alex51 said:
I believe the US Constitution,democracy,freedoms,our many inventions and our ability to help those in need are our greatest assets.
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alex51 said:
I believe the US Constitution,democracy,freedoms,our many inventions and our ability to help those in need are our greatest assets.
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Yes indeed. Thanks for the post. When you say our many inventions, care to name a few? Gosh, there are certainly lots of things we do better than anyone else.

Bob Maxey

PS: I might remind people that saying America does something better than another country is pride, not other country bashing.
 
You seem to have morphed this yourself, from what we do to what we do and have done, so somewhere in there, I submit, in no particular order:

  1. Microprossessors
  2. Aircraft (the Wright Flyer, U-2, SR-71 are seminal works)
  3. Television - itself
  4. Barbeque
  5. Unix
  6. The Apollo Program (got moon?)
  7. The internet
  8. Mickey Mouse
  9. Rock and roll
  10. The Blues

In Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash world, America is known in the future for two concepts that we still ended doing better than anyone else in the world:

  • Pizza delivery
  • Franchising
 
Several posters have already pointed out a few of the things I was going to mention (mainly the mod who mentioned the Internet and microprocessors).

Here are a few I can think of:

Highway system (and modern infrastructure)
The light bulb (big props to Thomas Edison, who like me hails from NJ)
Advanced forms of weaponry including but not limited to the atomic bomb
Crazy conspiracy theories (Area 51, etc.)
NASCAR
Popular music
Too many scientific and medical advances to list
Eggo's
 
At this point there isn't much that America does best. I'm not trolling, I just mean all of the things that specifically made America great have largely gone elsewhere.

These days we are FAR more likely to TALK about how great America is rather than PROVE it like we did up until a few decades ago. It's been ever so slowly downhill from there. In fact most people don't even notice it, like watching a kettle boil.

I've posted it before but please watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQhNZENMG1o
 
EarlyMon said:
You seem to have morphed this yourself, from what we do to what we do and have done, so somewhere in there, I submit, in no particular order:

  1. Microprossessors
  2. Aircraft (the Wright Flyer, U-2, SR-71 are seminal works)
  3. Television - itself
  4. Barbeque
  5. Unix
  6. The Apollo Program (got moon?)
  7. The internet
  8. Mickey Mouse
  9. Rock and roll
  10. The Blues

In Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash world, America is known in the future for two concepts that we still ended doing better than anyone else in the world:

  • Pizza delivery
  • Franchising
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Don't think you can say the apollo missions. As the scientist that made the whole program was german scientist we took at the end of WWII.
 
hakr100 said:
Your lead-off post indicated you wanted lists of things (or activities, I suppose) that Americans do well.
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hakr100 said:

Harley-Davidson motorcycles are adequate, but they're certainly not at the top of the list in terms of engineering or innovation.

We don't make consumer televisions anymore and, when we did, we were only at the top before the Japanese got into their manufacture.

Modern mass production does not describe production in the United States any longer.

Drive-ins? Crikey, you must be my age.
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Never say that (insert e-outrage here) about Harley Davidson. I will not stand for it. (Insert smiley) We do not need innovation or engineering, we are Harley. We will (well, my favored rides will be) be wanted a hundred years from now and I am not so sure the other brands will be. When we need parts, we can get them. No problem. Not sure that will be the case for most other brands.

Love what you want,
 
Bob Maxey said:
Never say that (insert e-outrage here) about Harley Davidson. I will not stand for it. (Insert smiley) We do not need innovation or engineering, we are Harley. We will (well, my favored rides will be) be wanted a hundred years from now and I am not so sure the other brands will be. When we need parts, we can get them. No problem. Not sure that will be the case for most other brands.
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I'm not knocking Harley-Davidson motorcycles. I like them. I think their sales are based upon being American, being overweight, being heavily chromed and being easy to modify and restyle. Oh, and the sound.

These days, my bike is a Duc. Italian styling, advanced engineering, relatively light, relatively unchromed, hard to modify (the looks).
 
hakr100 said:
I'm not knocking Harley-Davidson motorcycles. I like them. I think their sales are based upon being American, being overweight, being heavily chromed and being easy to modify and restyle. Oh, and the sound.

These days, my bike is a Duc. Italian styling, advanced engineering, relatively light, relatively unchromed, hard to modify (the looks).
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Very nice bike. A have a friend that collects them. Very cool.

Bob Maxey
 
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