America: A Nation of Cheaters?

There are millions of people on this planet that are hard-working, loyal, honest, loving and caring people. Unfortunately, the media focus on the "bad boy/bad girl" stories. On any day, you can hear the same gruesome stories played over and over again on all the news programs. The sports programs that were started to encourage excellence, teamwork, friendship and the "mom and apple pie" values are corrupted all the way down to the little league level. If our sports figures or entertainment personalities were just regular people, their bad behavior would be punished by friends, family and society. Instead, we allow them to be idiots and glorify them in the process. I often think that if everyone canceled their reservations at the Hilton hotel, maybe her dad would have something responsible to say to miss Paris. The list goes on and on. Until we just say no more and stop spending our money on these goof balls, punish cheating politicians by not voting for them, get discipline back into our schools and our lives in general, we won't see much improvement. In the meantime, if we try to keep the golden rule and honor the good people of the world instead of honoring the bad ones, we will all be better off.

I don't think this is limited to just the US. I believe this has become a problem every where. I know people that actually think things are not illegal until you get caught, and they use that to justify the things that they do. I think that is what our politicians think as well, and that is in both parties.

The only thing one can do is to be faithful to one's self. In this regard, we would not be joining the crowd of cheaters. You cannot control what others do or if they cheat. In any event, the cheater cheats no one but his/herself as it is impossible to cheat another. The recipient of the cheating always has other options to chose as to how they look at the cheater. Does this make sense?

we are a nation of humans and humans sin it does not happen just here and i personaly resent your implication that we are a nation of cheaters i prefer to think of us as a nation of people who are not afraid to speak up and ask for forgiveness when we realise we did wrong just as the recent ms Jones did !God bless her she must be going through a personal hell right now but she is forgiven by God if not by men!

How right you are; I guess that's why you're the "worldwise1", right...lol? I don't know who kids today can look up to as a role model. The "best" baseball player was using steroids, our gold-medal winners and our Tour-de-France winner, the list goes on and on. A top football player apparently needed more money than the millions he gets from his team so he has to participate in torturing innocent dogs! Our politicians are lining their pockets while cheating their constituents, teachers are seducing their students, the list goes on and on into infinity it seems. I don't think it's always been this way but, who knows? The world is a smaller place now and we hear things we never heard before so maybe it's just now out in the open. Great topic! Annie

it's really sad to hear! but, for me the only real cheater's in our nation are the bad politician' and Leaders... their create LAW'S but most of then break it.. My 'NATIONS' are more worse than your's... I think every NATION have a problems cheating..

It seems to get worse and worse over time. I have personally observed students cheating in college--we caught 50 students cheating on a lab assignment. I have caught others cheating in other classes. They have gotten away with it in high school and think its okay to cheat in college. Its a comment on how morals are degrading in this generation.