do other countries jump from crisis to crisis?

[onethatcares]

why does it seem the United, but divided, States of America constantly has a crisis of some sort going on? gas crisis, food crisis, storm crisis, fires, etc. Don't we ever get a break?

[izzie]

1. Need not read many history books to find this out. Yes

I do not think we have any more then we used to have but it gets to us fast now. I also think that some of the news we now get used to be in sort of out of the way papers. It was sort of news that would not come into your home.

[provis99]

2. my old "World Problems" professor once explained it to me

America is like that drunk you see lurching and stumbling down the sidewalk at night, swearing at himself, challenging passerby to fights, and looking for his wallet and wedding ring. There you have it: a drunk stumbling from crisis to crisis.

[Fleshdancer]

3. Think of America as a teenager....

The world revolves around us and every problem is seriously, like, the worst problem EVER! ;)

Honestly though, for our size, I think we're pretty lucky. It could be a lot worse.

[baldguy]

4. We have a corporate media that exists to sell widgets & bodkins

not to pass much needed information to the public.

[Rageneau]

5. When Clinton was President, our biggest crisis was unauthorized blow jobs.

Everything else -- and I mean EVERYTHING else -- was steadily getting better.

Clinton made it look so easy that Americans thought Bush could do it, too.

[BOHICA06]

6. Except for the Dot Com failure ....

of course the mortgage disaster made that look like a walk in the park.

[arcadian]

7. Disaster capitalism

Keep the sheep fed and scared.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Yes an industry that feeds on disaster.

There was an old saying: war is FSM's way of teaching Americans geography.

Nowadays, a crisis is the way to teach Americans about economics, home financing, farming, oil refining, etc.

Either we've been too safe and secure to need to know anything beyond our borders, or too lazy.

[The2ndWheel]

9. I can't see how they wouldn't

They all still exist in the physical world, and it's always chasing us, no matter where we are.