[The_Rorschach]

Alright, this is just stupidity.

FS: The US owes nothing to anyone? Really. How about the native Americans whose land you stole? The Africans you brought overseas to work for you as slaves?

Fine. Quarter off all of Europe below Germany and hand it over to the Italians. And don't forget sizable portions of Africa as well. The Romans held it first. No, no, that creates problems because there were those who ruled there before them. I got it. We nuke the planet, every square inch, and turn it into the lifeless rock scientists believe it was before that spark hit the primordial pool and created life. Then everyone will be even, right back to square one, and we can start all over again, first come first serve for land.

FS: (hell, in those times Americans were mostly Europeans still)

America was never "mostly European." It was settled by religious dissidents, and even during the colonial days, they saw themselves as something other than European. The majority of those who came did so to escape Europe, not to serve it. Years before the beginning of the Revolutionary war, Patrick Henry was quotes as saying:

"I am not a Virginian but an American!"

Neither classification alludes to European identity. Unless you are speaking in regards to European hedgemony, in which case your point is laughable.

FS: Every single person who did not grow up in poverty owes a debt to every person that did.

What socialist bullshit is this? Noone owes anyone else shit. Its this sense of entitlement which is ruining America today, having totally ecliped the work ethics the country was founded on. We have state wide 'unions' for Welfare Rights, as those people have some right to Federal funds simply because they were stupid enough to have children without the means to provide for them. Catering to that stupidity would only encourage the folly in others.

FS: I don't suppose I can reach an agreement with a person who doesn't see the responsibilities that come with being 'rich'.

Do you see those responsibilities? If so, why aren't you out there in the Peace Corps, bringing food, aid and medical supplies to the world's needy, forming communal farms to feed the needing, or building shelters for those without? That fact you have a computer and internet service suggests you have assets to spare, and the fact you are posting at I-Mockery means you certainly have the time. Maybe its because you're not really all that different from Pants, being occupied with your own existance and only considering others abstractly if at all.