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Are You Proud of your Country? I'm Not!

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The mainstream media fills us with garbage. If you want to know what is truly going on in the World you must seek out news on the internet or World news in the early morning.


I am ashamed of my country. We perform extraordinary renditions (kidnap people), we torture people, we hold people indefinitely without charges, and the government lies to its own people,


We have become a nation of killers. We indiscriminate between legitimate targets and unarmed civilians. We are spending our children's and grandchildren's future by this unending expenditures on military hardware.


As John F. Kennedy once said; "Mankind must put and end to war before war puts an end to mankind".


You may be proud of your country but I'm not. I would like to give you some sobering facts that I borrowed from Michael Snyder. They are worth noting about the economic condition in this nation.



The following are 19 facts about the deindustrialization of America that will blow your mind....

 

#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001.

 

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