Why Do Many Around The World Call US The Ugly Americans?

In my opinion we know simple envy and jealousy plays a large role in the dislike for America and it's citizens around the world , and I myself shudder when I hear activists on the left cry and moan endlessly about the plight of the so called American poor and how little the government does for these people, an out and out lie.

The poor in America would be considered among the better off in most of the world's poorest countries and this is clearly laid out in study after study containing similar findings like these below from the Heritage Foundation:

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various gov­ernment reports:

• Forty-three percent of all poor households actu­ally own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
  
  
• Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
  
  
• Only 6 percent of poor households are over­crowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
  
  
• The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
  
  
• Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
  
  
• Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
  
  
• Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
  
  
• Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

As a group, America's poor are far from being chronically undernourished.

That's an understatement and this was addressed as far back as 2003 by an astute Rich Lowery in an article commentary about America's overweight children here and as recent as this week where the news has been filled with a book calling America's obesity problem a lifestyle choice. Either way, rich or poor, Americans are becoming fatter and fatter and looked upon as spoiled pigs around the world.

And when we see articles like the one below about citizens of Haiti having to resort to eating dirt adn the malnourished elsewhere around the world, those in America with their hands out constantly make me sick as at least they live in a country where the government foolishly rewards many with the redistribution of wealth for not working as often as it does for those who do work hard and long hours week after week after week until death do they part, ridiculously.

Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt:

"PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.

The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.

'When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day,' Charlene said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking even thinner than the slim 6 pounds 3 ounces he weighed at birth.

Though she likes their buttery, salty taste, Charlene said the cookies also give her stomach pains. 'When I nurse, the baby sometimes seems colicky too,' she said." continued

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