The bottom line is that nobody should be able to say where or how we can spend our money as Americans, even if America consumes more than any other nation. That is an interesting thought no doubt. America consumes more than any other nation, sometimes in excess of 300%. Think of all the resources we tear through at alarming speed like gasoline and other fossil fuels. Billions of dollars are wasted on the needless consumer garbage made to quell our need to spend. America is one of the most wasteful nations on earth, and we don't try to hide it, we flaunt it. This is not any one man's fault. This fault lays on the very society of America. The same society that tells us to go bigger, super size it, and be …show more content…
The answer, no, America should not. Granted America has a certain obligation to the rest of the world, but it fulfills that through aide and other organizations abroad like the United Nations. America has many if not all of the bad things other nations have, short of genocide. We have one of the worst crime rates in the world. We have terrible poverty, sometimes staring you in the face on your lunch hour depending on where you live. Yes, Americans deserve all they get. Yes it deserves everything from the sexual assault and racial discrimination suites to the five-dollar Starbucks coffees and super-sized hamburger meals at your favorite fast food