"Get a life, get a republic !"
Don't be daft, the UK is a Parlimentary Republic and might I add a better funtioning won than America's.
The US's "democracy" is in need of serious reform.
In america more than half the populace doesn't vote.
There are only two parties with any prospects for succses.
There system is one in which there is no real hope for third party to make serious gains since there are nurmerous laws made in favor of the ones in power.
They have supreme court with massive powers oppointed by the government.
Their minister of defence would become president if a mere three or four of the more senior ministers were eliminated.
Their decentralized state means the laws such as abortion, gun control and minimum wage, which should be an integral part of a nation's moral beliefs vary wiedly from state to state.
Their recognized press and historians perpetuate a history filled with inaccuracies and rationalizations which have been Known for centuries.
Their military and the CIA are given massive budjets and are scantily responsible to the people.
Their goverment is controlled by business elite's on whose funding the parties require for campaining.
They have excedingly weak laws in regards to the enviroment, resources managment and idustry controls.
The president and ministers are given radically dangerous powers in emergency situations.
And finally they have trouble passing the very bills nessecary for reform because of the abilities of their upper chamber to tag on additions to bills before they get to the vote.
America also has problems with it's mentality in relation to it's foreign policies.
They give the apperance of disreagard for foreign treaties, such as their movments towards constuction of a SDI defense system, the Kyoto Accords and the breaking of various trade agrements, for example their one sided polices toward canada with which they have a free trade agrement, they for several years now have been banning a large portion of canadian patatoe exports because one farmers crop had a mild disease infection, their massives subsides of native farmers which now are nearly double that of canada and their tariffs against canadian softwood lumber which is little more subsidised than american lumber.
America's econimc health depends on both foreign envestment and imports made with a grossly overvalued dollar. A great economic collapse is nearing which we must prepare ourselves for.
America has turned from being the most progressive country in the world to being the most backward western country due to lack of substantial reform since it's inception. America is no longer a country which can subsist on laws promoting the raping of natural resources and the opputunistic merchantile class which gave it it's independence. America needs reform and it needs it now. America must learn to become a responsible member of the global community.
God bless America I say not only for America but for the rest of the world.
On another note...
"Ah it don't matter about who is the King or Queen. They ain't got any power. "
The monarchy still has power, they can refuse to pass laws in the parliments of both britain and the comonwealth they can unduly influence the vote by presenting their oppinions in parliment, with their sizebale fortune they could by up several press institutions and they still hold a respected, sentimental place in the hearts of the masses.
I apolagize for any gramatical errors in the above document.
