Why do people hate America?

If they actually helped in the beginning and didn't help the germans the war would have been over far sooner.
Not voting on your stupid and biased poll.

I really, really dislike business.

What is it about people dealing with each other that upsets you? Is it because Big Brother is not involved?

America-haters are usually bitter leftists who can't get over the fact that they got their asses handed to them in the Cold War. Either that or they are backward Islamists/ apologists for them.

Care to elaborate? I know the US officially entered relatively late into the war (and if Japan didn't attack, maybe wouldn't have), but how that translates into helping the Germans, I don't quite get. The Germans declared war on the US after the US declared war on Japan. If the US was helping the Germans, why would they do that?

Here are the priorities of a business:
- Profit.
- Services.

Most of them avoid tax; they run out competitors from the market (Amazon is taking everyone over), we lose control over companies and find it difficult to hold people accountable; the money from corporations is often used to lobby and to bribe government (since government depends on funds). Basically by privatising and making more companies the government are slaves and serve the interest of companies (just look at the mess we're in as a result of selling the family silver).

USA had very little to do with the collapse of the USSR.

The US entered the war in the the last year or so (I'm not so hot on dates) and only because Japan attacked them, because they wanted to stay out of it as a neutral party and didn't want to help either side win.

What's wrong with profit? The profit motive has advanced living standards much more so than some directive from a bureaucrat ever could.

What's wrong with services? Businesses are there because they provide people with what they want. No problem here.

If they're running others out of the market then it means they are out-competing them. You forget that power lies with the customer; if the alternatives to Amazon were so great, then Amazon wouldn't be so big. But they are.

As long as they avoid tax legally then there is no problem. The government doesn't have the divine right to steal from your wallet or their account. Who would want to give even more money to a government that will only waste it on token gestures and war?

As for businesses lobbying government, this is something you leftists never seem to understand. Perhaps if you didn't have so powerful a government in the first place, special privileges couldn't be given? Cut the head off the snake. But no, the left will never give up their Big Brother dream.

Monopolies often occur because of the government, remember.

I think your gripe is with Corporatism which is not the same as Capitalism. It's more like fascism, which in turn is closer to your beloved socialism than you'd like to admit.

North Korea vs South Korea. Says it all.

Care to elaborate? I know the US officially entered relatively late into the war (and if Japan didn't attack, maybe wouldn't have), but how that translates into helping the Germans, I don't quite get. The Germans declared war on the US after the US declared war on Japan. If the US was helping the Germans, why would they do that?

Before Israel, the land was British and before that it was Ottoman for 600 years. If you are going to to start with "but 1000 years is was Arab" than I will also say that 2000 years ago the land was Jewish, also in the period where there was no muslim or Arabs in the middle east.

And yes, the UK has more claim on the land than some Abu Qatad, PLO or other dirty islamists.

And no, the US had nothing to do with the creation of the Israel state since it was planned by the UK and France after World War I. The UN just accomplished that plan when the majority of the memeber states passed a resolution.

This is a mistake that many Americans often are led to believe, that they somehow invented democracy an freedom and liberty. The United States is a melting-pot of exports: exported ideas from thinkers across Europe, exported emigrants looking for new lives, exported cultures, exported models of government. The United States, it's government and people did not just spring out of nowhere for the rest of the world to copy, it's philosophy of liberty, justice, democracy, etc. do not belong to America but rather are exported ideas, particularly from Britain. Democracy, in one form or another, has been around since Ancient Greece and ideas of personal liberty and freedom have been forged from centuries of development in the countries of Europe, America being that new land which would be the canvas on which to implement these new ideas. They didn't invent but received and developed. Just as Europe didn't invent but received and developed. America does not hold ownership to the concepts of liberty and democracy, concepts which have been around for ages before it, even if Washington DC chooses to resemble a slogan-ridden monument museum of hypocritical sentiments of freedom.