America – The Grim Truth
escape from the prison you call home
Americans, I have some bad news for you:
You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin.
If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.
I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.
I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.
Consider this, you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once, your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.
This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.
Let’s start with your diet: Much of the beef you eat has been exposed to fecal matter in processing. Your chicken is contaminated with salmonella. Your stock animals and poultry are pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics. In most other countries, the government would act to protect consumers from this sort of thing; in the United States, the government is bought off by industry to prevent any effective regulations or inspections. In a few years, the majority of all the produce for sale in the United States will be from genetically modified crops, thanks to the cozy relationship between Monsanto Corporation and the United States government. Worse still, due to the vast quantities of high-fructose corn syrup Americans consume, fully one-third of children born in the United States today will be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives.
Of course, it’s not just the food that’s killing you, it’s the drugs. If you show any sign of life when you’re young, they’ll put you on Ritalin. Then, when you get old enough to take a good look around, you’ll get depressed, so they’ll give you Prozac. If you’re a man, this will render you chemically impotent, so you’ll need Viagra to get it up. Meanwhile, your steady diet of trans-fat-laden food is guaranteed to give you high cholesterol, so you’ll get a prescription for Lipitor. Finally, at the end of the day, you’ll lay awake at night worrying about losing your health plan, so you’ll need Lunesta to go to sleep.
With a diet guaranteed to make you sick and a health system designed to make sure you stay that way, what you really need is a long vacation somewhere. Unfortunately, you probably can’t take one. I’ll let you in on little secret: if you go to the beaches of Thailand, the mountains of Nepal, or the coral reefs of Australia, you’ll probably be the only American in sight. And you’ll be surrounded crowds of happy Germans, French, Italians, Israelis, Scandinavians and wealthy Asians. Why? Because they’re paid well enough to afford to visit these places AND they can take vacations long enough to do so. Even if you could scrape together enough money to go to one of these incredible places, by the time you recovered from your jetlag, it would time to get on a plane and rush back to your job.
If you think I’m making this up, check the stats on average annual vacation days by country:
Finland: 44
Italy: 42
France: 39
Germany: 35
UK: 25
Japan: 18
USA: 12
The fact is, they work you like dogs in the United States. This should come as no surprise: the United States never got away from the plantation/sweat shop labor model and any real labor movement was brutally suppressed. Unless you happen to be a member of the ownership class, your options are pretty much limited to barely surviving on service-sector wages or playing musical chairs for a spot in a cubicle (a spot that will be outsourced to India next week anyway). The very best you can hope for is to get a professional degree and then milk the system for a slice of the middle-class pie. And even those who claw their way into the middle class are but one illness or job loss away from poverty. Your jobs aren’t secure. Your company has no loyalty to you. They’ll play you off against your coworkers for as long as it suits them, then they’ll get rid of you.
Of course, you don’t have any choice in the matter: the system is designed this way. In most countries in the developed world, higher education is either free or heavily subsidized; in the United States, a university degree can set you back over US$100,000. Thus, you enter the working world with a crushing debt. Forget about taking a year off to travel the world and find yourself – you’ve got to start working or watch your credit rating plummet.
If you’re “lucky,” you might even land a job good enough to qualify you for a home loan. And then you’ll spend half your working life just paying the interest on the loan – welcome to the world of American debt slavery. America has the illusion of great wealth because there’s a lot of “stuff” around, but who really owns it? In real terms, the average American is poorer than the poorest ghetto dweller in Manila, because at least they have no debts. If they want to pack up and leave, they can; if you want to leave, you can’t, because you’ve got debts to pay.
All this begs the question: Why would anyone put up with this? Ask any American and you’ll get the same answer: because America is the freest country on earth. If you believe this, I’ve got some more bad news for you: America is actually among the least free countries on earth. Your piss is tested, your emails and phone calls are monitored, your medical records are gathered, and you are never more than one stray comment away from writhing on the ground with two Taser prongs in your ass.
And that’s just physical freedom. Mentally, you are truly imprisoned. You don’t even know the degree to which you are tormented by fears of medical bankruptcy, job loss, homelessness and violent crime because you’ve never lived in a country where there is no need to worry about such things.
But it goes much deeper than mere surveillance and anxiety. The fact is, you are not free because your country has been taken over and occupied by another government. Fully 70% of your tax dollars go to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon is the real government of the United States. You are required under pain of death to pay taxes to this occupying government. If you’re from the less fortunate classes, you are also required to serve and die in their endless wars, or send your sons and daughters to do so. You have no choice in the matter: there is a socio-economic draft system in the United States that provides a steady stream of cannon fodder for the military.
If you call a life of surveillance, anxiety and ceaseless toil in the service of a government you didn’t elect “freedom,” then you and I have a very different idea of what that word means.
If there was some chance that the country could be changed, there might be reason for hope. But can you honestly look around and conclude that anything is going to change? Where would the change come from? The people? Take a good look at your compatriots: the working class in the United States has been brutally propagandized by jackals like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. Members of the working class have been taught to lick the boots of their masters and then bend over for another kick in the ass. They’ve got these people so well trained that they’ll take up arms against the other half of the working class as soon as their masters give the word.
If the people cannot make a change, how about the media? Not a chance. From Fox News to the New York Times, the mass media in the United States is nothing but the public relations wing of the corporatocracy, primarily the military industrial complex. At least the citizens of the former Soviet Union knew that their news was bullshit. In America, you grow up thinking you’ve got a free media, which makes the propaganda doubly effective. If you don’t think American media is mere corporate propaganda, ask yourself the following question: have you ever heard a major American news outlet suggest that the country could fund a single-payer health system by cutting military spending?
If change can’t come from the people or the media, the only other potential source of change would be the politicians. Unfortunately, the American political process is among the most corrupt in the world. In every country on earth, one expects politicians to take bribes from the rich. But this generally happens in secret, behind the closed doors of their elite clubs. In the United States, this sort of political corruption is done in broad daylight, as part of legal, accepted, standard operating procedure. In the United States, they merely call these bribes campaign donations, political action committees and lobbyists. One can no more expect the politicians to change this system than one can expect a man to take an axe and chop his own legs out from underneath him.
No, the United States of America is not going to change for the better. The only change will be for the worse. And when I say worse, I mean much worse. As we speak, the economic system that sustained the country during the post-war years is collapsing. The United States maxed out its “credit card” sometime in 2008 and now its lenders, starting with China, are in the process of laying the foundations for a new monetary system to replace the Anglo-American “petro-dollar” system. As soon as there is a viable alternative to the US dollar, the greenback will sink like a stone.
While the United States was running up crushing levels of debt, it was also busy shipping its manufacturing jobs and white-collar jobs overseas, and letting its infrastructure fall to pieces. Meanwhile, Asian and European countries were investing in education, infrastructure and raw materials. Even if the United States tried to rebuild a real economy (as opposed to a service/financial economy) do think American workers would ever be able to compete with the workers of China or Europe? Have you ever seen a Japanese or German factory? Have you ever met a Singaporean or Chinese worker?
There are only two possible futures facing the United States, and neither one is pretty. The best case is a slow but orderly decline – essentially a continuation of what’s been happening for the last two decades. Wages will drop, unemployment will rise, Medicare and Social Security benefits will be slashed, the currency will decline in value, and the disparity of wealth will spiral out of control until the United States starts to resemble Mexico or the Philippines – tiny islands of wealth surrounded by great poverty (the country is already halfway there).
Equally likely is a sudden collapse, perhaps brought about by a rapid flight from the US dollar by creditor nations like China, Japan, Korea and the OPEC nations. A related possibility would be a default by the United States government on its vast debt. One look at the financial balance sheet of the US government should convince you how likely this is: governmental spending is skyrocketing and tax receipts are plummeting – something has to give. If either of these scenarios plays out, the resulting depression will make the present recession look like a walk in the park.
Whether the collapse is gradual or gut-wrenchingly sudden, the results will be chaos, civil strife and fascism. Let’s face it: the United States is like the former Yugoslavia – a collection of mutually antagonistic cultures united in name only. You’ve got your own version of the Taliban: right-wing Christian fundamentalists who actively loathe the idea of secular Constitutional government. You’ve got a vast intellectual underclass that has spent the last few decades soaking up Fox News and talk radio propaganda, eager to blame the collapse on Democrats, gays and immigrants. You’ve got a ruthless ownership class that will use all the means at its disposal to protect its wealth from the starving masses.
On top of all that you’ve got vast factory farms, sprawling suburbs and a truck-based shipping system, all of it entirely dependent on oil that is about to become completely unaffordable. And you’ve got guns. Lots of guns. In short: the United States is about to become a very unwholesome place to be.
Right now, the government is building fences and walls along its northern and southern borders. Right now, the government is working on a national ID system (soon to be fitted with biometric features). Right now, the government is building a surveillance state so extensive that they will be able to follow your every move, online, in the street and across borders. If you think this is just to protect you from “terrorists,” then you’re sadly mistaken. Once the shit really hits the fan, do you really think you’ll just be able to jump into the old station wagon, drive across the Canadian border and spend the rest of your days fishing and drinking Molson? No, the government is going to lock the place down. They don’t want their tax base escaping. They don’t want their “recruits” escaping. They don’t want YOU escaping.
I am not writing this to scare you. I write this to you as a friend. If you are able to read and understand what I’ve written here, then you are a member of a small minority in the United States. You are a minority in a country that has no place for you.
So what should you do?
You should leave the United States of America.
If you’re young, you’ve got plenty of choices. You can teach English in the Middle East, Asia or Europe. Or you can go to university or graduate school abroad and start building skills that will qualify you for a work visa. If you’ve already got some real work skills, you can apply to emigrate to any number of countries as a skilled immigrant. If you are older and you’ve got some savings, you can retire to a place like Costa Rica or the Philippines. If you can’t qualify for a work, student or retirement visa, don’t let that stop you – travel on a tourist visa to a country that appeals to you and talk to the expats you meet there. Whatever you do, go speak to an immigration lawyer as soon as you can. Find out exactly how to get on a path that will lead to permanent residence and eventually citizenship in the country of your choice.
You will not be alone. There are millions of Americans just like me living outside the United States. Living lives much more fulfilling, peaceful, free and abundant than we ever could have attained back home. Some of us happened upon these lives by accident – we tried a year abroad and found that we liked it – others made a conscious decision to pack up and leave for good. You’ll find us in Canada, all over Europe, in many parts of Asia, in Australia and New Zealand, and in most other countries of the globe. Do we miss our friends and family? Yes. Do we occasionally miss aspects of our former country? Yes. Do we plan on ever living again in the United States? Never. And those of us with permanent residence or citizenship can sponsor family members from back home for long-term visas in our adopted countries.
In closing, I want to remind you of something – unless you are an American Indian or a descendant of slaves, at some point your ancestors chose to leave their homeland in search of a better life. They weren’t traitors and they weren’t bad people, they just wanted a better life for themselves and their families. Isn’t it time that you continue their journey?
This article first appeared on Information Clearing House and has been reporoduced with their kind permission
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Fantastic article. I live in Canada, and very happily, by the way. To anybody reading this who agrees with the article, including the author, I recommend the movies “The Zeitgeist” and “The Zeitgeist: Addendum” which can be found on YouTube, if you haven’t seen them already. They’re concerned with the lies surrounding religion, 9/11, the economy, wars, and the future. I going to share this page. Thanks for posting.
I am a Canadian living in the Cayman Islands. This article says nothing that can’t be said about most western nations that are hell-bent on escalating coercive redistribution, including Canada.
Talk about a severe “grass is greener” blog article.
Part of the reason why Americans aren’t seen outside of America are manyfold:
1) The USA is a HUGE place! The continental USA has roughly equivalent land area to the whole of Europe, including Russia, up to the Urals. Thus, it is HUGELY EXPENSIVE to travel anywhere else.
2) The USA has many options of enjoyment and entertainment. If it didn’t, you’d see more vacationing elsewhere.
3) The wages bit I can argue with. The author of this article has one of the most slanted and biased viewpoints I can think of. White collar workers getting a less quality of life than the blue collar workers elsewhere? LAUGHABLE AND TOTALLY WRONG. Let’s take a look at a few of the “rich” countries he says are superior to us lowly and godforsaken Americans:
China: have you been under a rock for the past two years? There have been RIOTS AND STRIKES at companies in China as workers demand higher pay. Further, at one company that employs a staggering 310,000, living conditions are so poor in the campus that hundreds commit suicide every year. Slave labor/plantation mentality? Wake up and smell the f*cking oolong tea buddy. Go to ANY of the countryside cities and see what life is REALLY like in China (i.e. NOT Shanghai or Beijing). These people cannot take vacations. They are NOT the wealthy elite. Just because you see a lot of Chinese people abroad now is that with a 1.3 BILLION (as in, 1,300 million) people, assuming just 0.1% of that population is wealthy enough to travel, you still got ****ing 1.3 MILLION Chinese tourists. Wow. You’re just stupid.
Japan: People really are a slave to their jobs here. I should know, my in-laws are Japanese. Their dad goes to work at 8 AM and doesn’t come back till ****ing 11 at night. And he does this 5 days a week, 6 every other week. The culture is such that if you avoid being sociable with the coworkers and bosses, people will think something’s up and/or you hate them. A cursory review of internet articles and Youtube videos of Australian and American expats in Japan will confirm this.
Western Europe: There is a reason most European countries do not approach the replacement population birthrate of 2.2 children: IT’S TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE!
France: I personally would hate to live in a country where raising the retirement age for a fat check in welfare from 60-62 basically shuts down the country. Even in the smoothest of times, people in France have to live with basic services being interrupted due to some strike.
England: I don’t know where to begin. You think the US is in shambles, take a look at the UK. They’re rated lower in most standard of life polls than the US.
Germany: Probably the best-off of the lot. I could see myself living in Germany. Gotta love export-driven democratic economies
Italy: This country is called the “sick old man” of Europe. They have a contracting economy and a contracting populace. It’s laughable if you think they got it better.
Spain: Their economy is in the ****ter and have 20% unemployment. Nuff said. Next.
Scandanavian Countries: They’re pretty well off for one reason: Oil. Take that away and there’s little else.
So there you have it – for all its foibles and tribulations, the USA is still the best country to live in in my own opinion. In the words of countless British, Irish, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, and all sorts of other immigrants who I have BEFRIENDED RIGHT HERE IN THE GOOD OL USA … when I ask why they came here, I get nearly always the SAME REPLY:
“MORE OPPORTUNITY, MORE JOBS.”
Johan – thank you, thank you, thank you for taking the time to say what I would have said. That article was so slanted as to be laughable. I wanted a true discussion of the cultures outside of the USA compared to here, but I knew – when he bashed only the “right” side of the political spectrum for our problems – that I was not going to get what the article should have given me. I know from personal experience that what he says about the medical system in Europe is simply not true – that in their wonderful one-payer system, if you have anything other than an urgent problem, you will wait, and wait and wait and wait for an appointment, usually so long that the problem resolves itself – or it becomes urgent! And much much much money comes from out of pocket so there is an entire black market of medical services – please – don’t insult our intelligence!! You lost your credibility early on, but I finished the article just to see how ridiculous it got – and I wasn’t disappointed! Johan, again thank you for writing such a good response – I’m happy there are still people like you out there to defend this battered country.
JOhans got it totally wrong about the UK. Its fantastic here. Why do you think everyone wants to claim asylum here? Thousands pass through Germany and France just to get to England. That includes thousands of French who come here to work and never return to France. As for Germany… Ever been? Its another country with brainwashed workaholics. Not as nice as you may believe. Crap beaches too! (what they have of them)
The UK really is a beautiful country. Diverse scenery, great health service and once here very few leave.
Britain is the best country in the world.
Excuse me, but… what the fuck? Scandinavian countries are well off because of oil? Pardon me, but only Norway has oil, and Norway doesn’t share. I myself and from Finland, and we’ve built our economy on timber and electronics, not oil. And the quality of life here is superb.
Same goes for Sweden and Denmark, neither of which have any oil.
You make some good points. I live in China, after a brief stint in Kiev. I don’t know the whole world, but I do have some observations based on 3 years as an expat.
You cannot compare my lifestyle to an average Chinese. I make more and don’t work very hard in doing so.
I have a much better career here than I would back home. Lots of job offers. In the USA at age 50, I would most likely be a cab driver. Here I am an assistant professor.
I save more than I ever did in America.
I have substantially younger women to date or marry. :)
The USA is not a happy place. I went back 9 months ago, and it was very sad; so much economic misery.
There is an energy in Asia that is truly exciting. It is caused by all the investment capital flowing into the region. Money that is NOT being invested in America. This has been going on for 25 years now.
America is vastly overrated. I had no idea. My American friends write and ask me what it is like. I tell them that it is clean, modern and a lot of fun. I never hear from them again. They were expecting me to tell them how no place is as good as the Usa. Most of them still think “If it ain’t in America, it ain’t S**t.” Poor deluded fools.
Do I plan on going back? No way. Life is too good here.
“More opportunity, more jobs”
Yeah right… That’s the US propaganda talking. Sure there are more jobs. If you want to work shift work in retail for a minimal wage. There are a plethora of low paying jobs in the US. That’s the reality.
Sure there is more opportunity as well. However, the saying that it takes money to make money holds true in the US moreso than anywhere else. Sure there is more opportunity in the US. If you can afford it.
I’d like to weigh in a bit. I’m a 21 year old American student who has lived in Germany for over a year. I am now back in the states starting my Masters degree in philosophy.
I certainly worry about my future here in the United States. I believe it is rational to worry in the presence of uncertainty, especially nowadays where society’s development has so much momentum. Our course as a whole depends on our rationality as a whole. Luckily nowadays, we have mass open communication to promote critical thought. In my opinion, we have the capacity to decide our course effectively, if only people were more educated.
The average quality of life for a US citizen is much higher than the average Earth citizen in many important aspects. Most people have access to a wealth of information at no cost. Most people feel safe at almost all times. A variety of foods from around the world are available to those who work. Of course we really ought to improve the standards even more, since we have the capability.
The problem is, people are too distracted. I sympathize with Freeman’s portrait of American political and social class perspectives. They frighten me. Especially now when our society is facing tough challenges (namely with natural resources and new environmental concerns). We need to unify as a nation through open communication and democracy, and agree on what the best possible future of America looks like for the immediate and foreseeable future. If we maintain a healthy dialogue, we can merge the rational conclusions from the major perspectives to decide the best course of action towards that ideal future.
In that light, I’d like to oppose Freeman’s demand that “You should Leave the United States of America.” We owe (morally) to our fellow people and for the sake of this land to ensure its safe future. If you run away from this time of turmoil, you are a selfish coward. Every person who understands Freeman’s letter has the duty to use his/her capacity to work towards the ideal future of the United States.
That being said, fast travel and widespread communication is slowly erasing the boarders (mostly culturally, bust also geographically). The US’s position is no longer isolated; almost all nations nowadays depend on the well being of other nations. The U.S. citizen’s duties to the U.S. are no stronger than to other nations around the world. And that stands true for citizens of every country.
I appreciate the article, I hope more people read it and think about it critically.
Your idealism will likely fade when you realize that we don’t actually live in a democracy, but rather a plutocracy (a nation whose government is controlled by its sources of wealth) and that unfortunately people in this country (as you will learn when you finish school) don’t have the luxury of being able to buck the system or inflict real change because they’re all indebted to that next days 9-5. We have here the illusion of freedom. What we really have is the freedom to want what we can’t afford. Television is our carrot danging on a stick, badgering us with this fantastic illusion and imploring us to keep pushing for what we’ll never have the real freedom to experience.
Hey, just wanted to point out that Norway is the only scandinavian country with oil. It has NOTHING to do with how well the Nordic countries are doing.
I’d praise the Nordic Welfare State for that more than anything. Many Americans are all too quick to cry “Communism!” without paying attention to how well this system really works. Why else would we be at the top in education, living standards, etc. etc. ? “Oil money” really can’t account for it, especially considering that most of us don’t have any (Finland, for instance, has none whatsoever and we’re still #1 in the world when it comes to education).
I don’t expect a reply, but I would hope you at least read this and take it into consideration.
Any of you folks calling him slanted ever lived outside the US?
How many of you have a passport?
I agree wholeheartedly with the article and if you do travel abroad you would be shocked at how many US citizens have left, never to return.
Quality of life is not about income, one of the basic errors US citizens frequently make. Nor has the US anything to brag about in that respect.
To whit: Your tax rate is very similar to western europe, but you pay medical expenses out of pocket, at the rate of over 16% of GDP. The cost of health care, not out of pocket, in Europe, about 9% on average.
So deduct that 16% plus from your household budget, and see how your bank account stacks up with those in Europe.
But, you have never lived abroad, so you don’t know what you are talking about.
I am a US citizen, I left, good riddance. Free? Don’t make me laugh? Great? At what? Fucking its citizens royally? I’ll give you that.
The person commenting on UK health care, ever lived here and experienced it? I have, and it is far superior to that in the us, not even close.
Try having some experiences instead of parroting FOX, please.
Great article. I’m definitely leaning toward never living in America again if I can avoid it. I hate it when empty-headed jack-asses like Sean Hannity insist that “America is the greatest country in the world.”. By what standard is America the greatest country in the world? Health care? Nope. Education? Uh-uh. Standard of living? Please. Y’know what America’s number one at? Divorce. Obesity. Gun ownership. Good job, America.
Don’t get me wrong; there’s plenty of countries that’re far worse than America. There’re way more worse countries than there are better ones, but the fact is we’re not the best country in the world.
And what is wrong with gun ownership ? Why is it cited along divorce and obesity ? Gun ownership is actually one of the good things that America has — too bad it’s probably won’t be the case for too long.
What’s bad with gun ownership? Here’s just a theory, I might be wrong. When I lived in the UK (before coming here to China, I left the US 10 years ago) I was many times engaged in debates where I felt like I could freely and openly express my true opinions about well, anything – many things that, in the US, I would feel afraid to express for fear of having a gun pulled on me. And these things were not/are not entirely threatening at all. And when I stated these opinions, they were met openly out fo respect for a debate. American freedom of speech my ass. Freedom to have to look down a barrel if you say something someone does not agree with.
The fact that you’re basing the entirety of America on the messages of media figurehead Sean Hannity shows me that you’re not a very deep thinker… At least not for yourself. I think the true problem of America is that it’s intellectuals associate pride, guts, and patriotism with weakness. As if it’s a faux pa that doesn’t have a place in overall humanity… Well, in a utopian world you’d be correct, but the world is far from the likeness of that delusion of graduer…. So, grab your soapboxes, the one’s your daddy earned in the thick of war, and speak atop them as if you have a pair like him… This doesn’t mean you sacrifice your message, you just have a louder voice.
Noah I agree with you. With an educational system that taught you contractions such as “that’re” and “there’re” you should find the next available plane, train or automobile and leave forever. A side benefit for the US will be that we would have one less illiterate to drag our ranking down.
Tim I agree with you. With an educational system that taught you contractions such as “that’re” and “there’re” you should find the next available plane, train or automobile and leave forever. A side benefit for the US will be that we would have one less illiterate to drag our ranking down.
Haha. I got a good laugh from this article, as I am an American who lives outside of the US. Unlike this very misinformed writer though, I try to spread the very ideals he or she is attempting to understand. America is not a terrible place to live at all. Just because the author has the mental capacity to realize that he or she shouldn’t eat meat and sugar everyday, get a dead-end job and not exercise everyday doesn’t mean all Americans act as such or that the government wants that.
The irony of this article is that the author is still a misinformed stupid American, just on the other end of the spectrum.
Good stuff.