I've just come back from France, I went to the Utah and Omaha D-Day landing beaches. The place is actually US soil and is governed accordingly. The areas are preserved as they were with plaques etc at the entrance but they have closed down the visitors center and haven't maintained the area. How you may ask? There's sewage in certain places and the whole site smells of it; there's litter accumulating and things such as barbed wire in dangerous places! Veterans are being treated like crap and people are pissed off... Today the pay is low, security is terrible (The shootings in bases etc) and vital equipment isn't even standard anymore. Veterans are labeled as 'potential terrorists' and you are classified as a threat for ridiculous reasons such as having more than a weeks worth of food or growing your own. Rights are being violated in terms of owning more than a handful of ammunition you are a threat. Places hit by hurricanes even from many years ago still look like it happened yesterday. The health care system is unreliable and there are many secrets being kept from the public for example, Edward Snowden and the surveillance secret. The has government shut-down which is causing problems. Now I live in the UK which is ok but I'm just giving a brief overview. I have quite a few friends in the states who I keep in touch with and they say it's declining. Now I'm not in the best of positions to be talking about governments here for many reasons but I hope other people will add to this. Don't spam hate stuff because I have important sciencing to do for a long time and I have other matters on top of that...
Some politicians may care about the American people, but the government as a whole? Not in the least.
Eh, every government has its problems, and the recession has made everything much worse. But, on the whole I'm one of the people who think that America is on the decline. Or at least, we could be doing much better than we are now. Personally, when I'm able I want to move out of the states (for many reasons, not just this) possibly to Japan. I'm actually seriously considering going back to school to get my B.A. so I can work in Japan, as a teacher. I've already started learning the language so I'll have the basics down before I start taking college-level Japanese classes. Not that Japan is necessarily better than the US, but at least I'll have chosen to live there, you know? But yea, in any event, America (or any country, for that matter) is not the holy land a lot of people make it out to be.
