Pat does not know how bad it is. As a lifetime Republican and American patriot, I no longer have any respect for the USA. It comes down to the fact that so many of the citizens of the USA went gaga over Obama and his lying entourgage in the 2008 election. I do not even feel like voting anymore because it has been apparent for a long time that the American election process is corrupted beyond hope. In every election the big cities produce thousands of votes from the cemetery and thousands of votes from multiple voters in order to elect the machine and the machine, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles goes on to pick who the Commisar of the New American State will be.
The United States I grew up in no longer exists; what exists is a...

I spent over fifteen years as an adjunct professor both at a state school and a private university. An adjunct is the equivalent of a migrant worker laboring in the American Universities; we work for below minimum with no benefits and no security. However that is beside the point. With so many adjuncts working in the Americanized education system there is no doubt that the grades are inflated; the students evaluate the teachers and if teachers fail to give out As and Bs; they are trashed by the idealistic students who feel that they should get what they paid for not withstanding their actual achievement. Tenured teachers are also subject to student evaluation and if they are attending an Ivy League University at $50,000 per annum...

As a person who grew up in Philadelphia I have witnessed the evil of union thuggery first hand. The threats the extortions go on all the time. These same union thugs are allied to corrupt politicians so that they never have to answer to the law. In Philadelphia in the 1990s an anti Bill Clinton protestor was set upon by union thugs and severely beaten. The mayor fast eddie Rendell did nothing; the police did nothing and in the end the union pressed charges against the victim. The message was clear submit to union thugs or else and they are the goon squad for the democrat party.