Is America greater now, and how, if so or not?

CWO3 Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:31:39 -0400

Looking for honest opinions, facts work too. Not intended to incite or enforce bias either way. No wrong answers. I have opinions but would like to hear other viewpoints. Please maintain civility and honesty. Not a graded event, just to stimulate thought and discussion.

Response by CW3 Kevin Storm made Sep 21 at 2020 12:40 PM

CW3 Kevin Storm — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:40:19 -0400

IMHO no, as a world leader, are we doing the right thing by pulling out of Syria and fracking over our best ally in the region, the Kurds? I say no. If political opposition leader is poisoned with a nerve agent, should the leader of this country say something? When we roll over EPA rules meant to ensure we have safe air and water, is that a good thing? When we roll back fuel standards to pre Obama levels, is that a good thing? These are some of the issues I have watched and shook my head in disgust. Others may feel this is okay, but I don't. Keep in mind, I hate team blue, but IMHO team red is working overtime to frack it all up.

Response by SGT Carl Watson made Sep 21 at 2020 1:25 PM

SGT Carl Watson — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:25:36 -0400

I am a 72 year old Native African European American who was born in St. Louis, MO. My parents and us children were raised in a M middle class mostly predominantly Anglo Saxon, Jewish and less African American (AA) neighborhood. I enjoyed my growing up swimming in the neighborhood community center; catching the public transit street car or bus to attend movie theaters in the midtown predominantly Anglo Saxon (AS) neighborhoods. Communicating with AS's or Jewish business owners or employees in most of the businesses. The predominant AS Episcopalian Church at the end of our block were very nice to us what had become a predominantly AA grade school student, across the street. My younger brother in the 50's attended the predominantly AS Catholic grade school o the next street over from our house. He transferred without any issues to the Catholic High School just a few blocks from the grade school. I attended a predominantly AS two year college for one year prior to joining the Army in 67. Another associate high school graduate attended and graduated from Missouri University. I was hired three months after gradating from HS at McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Mfg. as an aircraft mechanic mechanic assembler at 18.

I was treated fairly at other aircraft companies and factories becoming experienced in most machines including computer numerical machines by the time I was employed at Boeing Aircraft in the 70's and at Northrop in the 80's. I completed my engineer degree in the 80's and a very close AS friend at Northrop informed me of how he informed me of how I was being cheated racially because he and another AS supervisor were offered a mechanical engineering position while both had not even graduated from two years from college and I had more years of experience than both. I had to sue Northrop.

In 1998 I took on a contractor's positions mostly in the south. One day a security guard in a company in N. Carolina asked me where I was from and I responded St. Louis. He replied that at least Missouri was a "slave state". One day at another contracted company the white employees asked me to pick up another white employee at his hotel, who later I learned had a wife at the hotel. The guy would drink too much which I ca only guess why he was late coming out once and did not come out the next day. I get to work the next week and the white guy asked me to do the messy part of his sealing job and I refused. He complained to a Hispanic lead-man who claimed that he was from Greece but I knew him from Inglewood, CA. The white supervisor came out to terminate me.

I have never in my entire life filed so many law suits against the police, sheriff, city, landlord, courts and white attorneys. Notice the change in wording from AS to white. We are still in court after four white judges quit. Things have only gotten worse.

Response by SGT Carl Watson made Sep 21 at 2020 7:28 PM

SGT Carl Watson — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:28:29 -0400

May I ask has anyone ever noticed or are concerned that the U.S. has not won a war since WWII or 75 years ago. The also is involved into the longest war in its history heading for 20 years next year. A former general and secretary of Defense spoke how foreigners are noticing how the U.S. lost the war against the North Vietnamese, a country the size of California. Europeans are distancing themselves from a strong relationship established during and after WWII. The U.S. is buying political authorizations to allow or for the alleged Democratic appearance. The access trash is being sent to Africa because China has stopped the dumping in their country. I do wish you all well.