Why Russia is Better than America

First of all a lot of people think that Russia is a land of severe persecution and people suffer everywhere because of the tyrannical government. Oh wait that is America. Now as I have been to Russia I have seem first hand that it is no worse that America and even in some cases better. People there can live what used to be called the American Dream, there if you work hard you can actually become rich, and if not rich at least afford to live in an economy that is actually expanding. And has in effect been expanding since the mid 19th Century. While the US slowly falls, Russia is expanding, Russia is becoming a great nation once again.

While in Russia I did see poverty, and people who could not work, and obvious discrimination, however we have that in America to, just not as obvious. We have all the things that Russia does, the US says Russia is no longer a super-power, why then is our President afraid of what Vladimir Putin will do? There is are inherent differences between the two presidents, one pays attention to the media, partially because he controls it, but also because he cares what the people say and how they think he is doing as a president. Also this president is quite intelligent and hard-working. While Time Magazine was interviewing him for "Man of the Year" the interviewer had a series of three-four hour meetings with this president, and he did all of these interviews about very broad subjects both without any notes and very openly, as though he had nothing to hide. Also he has something like a 72% approval rating taken from a third-party poller from outside of Russia. Obviously one can come to the conclusion that this is not the US President, and obviously the Russian President Vladimir Putin. While the US President on the other hand hides everything he is doing, and also does not listen to what the people want, does not listen to media, and has also been quoted as saying something along the lines of "I am not a reality-based person, but more of a religion-based person" WTF!!! You cannot have a person lead what has been referred to as the strongest nation in the world who is not reality based. That is just insane.

And Bush will not do any interview or anything without advisors or a script or Condaleeza there to help him along. Given he may not be as stupid as he has been made out to be, he still has no clue what is going on day to day within his country. He could in no way carry on interviews without notes, or saying "I am going to have to check on that" or something like that.

I just find that Russia is given a bad rap here in the US because half of the people here still think it is the CCCP which it is not.