BF2S Forums What do you regard as the biggest problem with YOUR country?

SuperSlowYo wrote:

BornToKill67 wrote:

SuperSlowYo wrote:

who cares if our military sucks... does canada need a huge military and if so what for? are we goin to war with Denmark for those little islands up north??? give your head a shake and wake up

We don't need a HUGE military but we need an actual military not just a few guys with P.O.S guns so that we could defend ourself if we were attacked. It shows that we're not a country that will let others push us around. Our military is something pretty sad IMO.

and who is attacking Canada?... i toss this question to anyone from any country... What are the chances your country will invade Canada?.... i refuse to get into an argument over this... good luck with life BornToKill67

His point being if anyone were to attack us, we would have no way to defend ourselves. I am sure willing volunteers would enlist to provide the manpower, but the resources are what we lack. It's never a bad idea to be prepared.

Our military is on the lacking end even compared to some smaller countries. As long as we use our Armed Forces smart, its ok to have a regular sized force.

1) idiot politicians
2) dumb ass politicians spending tax-money for shit nobody needs
3) #1 + #2 = wonderful combination
4) (illegal) immigrants spending their time on stealing/drug dealing/other crimes instead of working
5) unemployment (especially those unemployed ppl who don't even want to work and getting money for not working. freaking social system is abused so often)

Q:What do you regard as the biggest problem with YOUR country?

A:The Human race

The "biggest" problem of our country is that it is a "small" country.

I change my vote from obesity to stupid people.  I think if there was a way to cure people from being stupid (and I mean this in the no common sense form of stupid, not the illiterate or anything like that) then the world would be a better place

Canada

1. Our less than stellar record in dealings with indigenous peoples.  Totally at odds with how we see ourselves.
2. A tendency to see ourselves as above the fray, and somehow "better" than Americans.  That actually passes for national identity, in some people's minds.
3. The same things everybody else mentioned, common to most countries.  Dishonest politicians; Greed and corruption; people with that special combination of ignorance and aggression, etc.

1) Tremendously corrupt officials and ineffective state system.
2) Birth/death ratio far in the minus. We lose 900000 people annually. The country is getting empty. Soon the Chinese will take over everything that's beyond Ural mountain range.
3) For our economy oil is like heroine for drug addict. As soon as the oil prices fall down, we're fucked. We need to develop industry asap, while we still have those petrobucks.

Angela Merkel & Bayern

parthian1000 wrote:

UK

1.  The obsession with rights at the expense of responsiblities - "ooo, I broke into your house and cut myself breaking a window - I want compensation!"

2.  Immigration - not that it isn't necessary; according to the latest figures we need about 200,000 to make up the shortfall in birth rates but we're not selective enough.  Unless of course the criteria is tribal warlords, drug barons and knife wielding ethic groups who hate each other.  There's been a 37% increase in knife crime where I live in the last 2 years - apparently I'm racist according to the local council if I draw any connection to it to the 2,000 kurds that have moved into the area in the last two years.  We want doctors, teachers, researchers - we want people who are willing to build a life here and make a contribution to the nation that has adopted them.  Is that too much to ask?

3.  "Multiculturalism" - bollocks; as an English person I'm marginalised and demonised my the intellectual elite as a "yob", "beer-obsessed football hooligan".  Expressions of my national pride are viewed as inappropriate and insensitive.  Being Welsh, Scottish or Irish is fine as is any other nationality.  There are more St Patrick's Day celebrations than people who know when St George's Day is.  It hardly surprising people like the July 7th bombers find alternative cultural identities when being English is consistently equated with being a racist thug.  Making an equation like that is no different than saying all muslims are suicide bombers.  This is in part causing the rise in popularity in the BNP, as repellant as that is.

4.  The burgeoning underclass - call them what you will; chavs, charvers, townies, scavvies but don't call them working class.  I'm working class as were my parents.  They are not because they don't fucking work.  They are the first generation of kids whose parents have never worked and their ideas and attitudes are born of that.  They believe that, somehow, all that they ever wanted will land on their laps eventually - be it a lottery win, TV stardom or just the state bailing them out.  Hey - it worked for Jade Goody and that twat Michael Carroll.  Don't want to get a job though - might miss their audition for X-Factor.  In the mean time employers across the country have to turn to immigrant labour because the local workforce aren't interested in getting their hands dirty.

Amen brother. Nothing I can add to that.

As I see it, the biggest problem we have here in the Republic of Ireland is that the incoming generations of Irish people have lost touch with our past. Ireland has transformed from being one of the poorest countries in Europe to being the best performing economy (and second richest to Luxembourg) in the EU, all in the space of about 10 years. I remember the hardship my family and I had to endure trying to get by in rural Ireland in the 80s. This current generation has no concept of what 'hardship' means and as a result Ireland is becoming as materialistic and shallow as the rest of the west. People are more concerned about Ipods and salary increases than they are in the values that made Ireland great - hospitality, friendliness, charity, hard-graft and determination in the face of adversity, cultural heritage and the fact we could be happy even if we had little.
The 'new Irish' are soft and shallow and if they don't cop on then there is gonna be chaos when the global economy finally takes a nosedive.

Another problem we have is the eventual implosion of Northern Ireland. When we finally win back the north by democratic means (which isn't too far off) - the loyalists/unionists will kick off a civil war that might decimate the island.

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1. The entire country itself. I'd be happy to get rid of those arrogant and ungrateful bastards in the south, along with that bunch of villains called the monarchy so we can finally have a Republic of Flanders.

2. The political parties. None really represents what I want (suppose that's true for all democracies but it bothers me that I can't vote invalid anymore ever since elections have been conducted with computers - about 8 years ago, when I first had to vote - forcing me to vote for one of these parties).
- Socialists: I like our social support system but too many shitbags are allowed to make use of it and the socialist party seem to take pride in supporting the (borderline) criminal. Softies when it comes to crime and punishment thereof. They just want to cuddle every1 like babies.
- Liberals: Granted, I like a little bit of liberal influence in the government, but if the liberals had their way they'd start tearing down the social support system taking it away from people that really need and deserve it. A bit better on the crime theme, but still far from sufficient.
- Roman Catholics: Historically extremely corrupt and all about bending over and taking it up the ass from the king and the Vatican. Changed their name couple of years ago and rejuvenated the party, but the essence of corruption remains. Also, stands for christian / roman catholic values which is a major downside. Has been trying to snoop voters away from the next party by playing the pro-Flemish card every once in a while.
- Right extremists: Positive: a) as their name implies (Flemish Interest) they are very focused on the anti-Belgian idea and for an independant Flemish republic. b) zero tolerance to crime and strict immigration policy. Negative: most partymembers are racist making it a racist party and like the roman catholics they uphold christian/roman catholic values which is completely unacceptable.
- Communists: so small I actually shouldn't mention them. Lost all credibility as communists by forming an election cartel with a muslim party a couple of years ago. Not to mention their cuddling policy.
- Greens: Half of them have no political backbone as they were communists who abandoned ship when the Berlin wall fell. Which means they're also cuddlers like the socialists and the communists.

3. Crime. Mostly that caused by immigrants. And the lack of political will to do anything about it because that would be racist. Yes, weeding out criminals is racist.

4. Immigrants don't have to adapt. We have to adapt to them and endure their racist and sexist (well considering every woman as nothing but a fucktoy goes a little beyond sexism but for lack of a better word...)  .

dhoar4 wrote:

SPAM clan...They're our biggest problem

I hope they eat you and turn you into shit.

Defiantly the lack of water in Aus.

parthian1000 wrote:

UK


4.  The burgeoning underclass - call them what you will; chavs, charvers, townies, scavvies but don't call them working class.  I'm working class as were my parents.  They are not because they don't fucking work.  They are the first generation of kids whose parents have never worked and their ideas and attitudes are born of that.  They believe that, somehow, all that they ever wanted will land on their laps eventually - be it a lottery win, TV stardom or just the state bailing them out.  Hey - it worked for Jade Goody and that twat Michael Carroll.  Don't want to get a job though - might miss their audition for X-Factor.  In the mean time employers across the country have to turn to immigrant labour because the local workforce aren't interested in getting their hands dirty.

Spot on dude these arseholes are ruining the UK, they keep having babies that the working class have to support, I'm gonna stop there cos I can see my post turning into a swear fest at these lazy, moronic, idiotic fuck wipes. I mean how fuckin stupid are these people arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh gonna stop

Last edited by Jinto-sk (2006-06-27 06:26:05)