No they didn't. That's why I said "Oh wait."

 Illegal= key word, and no, I am not saying it is mainly their fault, but they certainly aren't helping things. 

Around here, there has been explosive growth in recent years, and many of the new families were from Mexico, and about half of those openly stated they were here illegally. They were also responsible for building the new houses, and I would assume used that money for a down payment on them, but now that the housing market has failed, they have no more money, and can't pay off their bills.

 Awesome XD.

USA should learn from Canada...

Yeah, through what? Oh, I don't know a little thing called the "slave trade." Maybe pillaging Africa for all it's worth didn't play a role too, huh Starcraft?

Seriously, it's this inferiority complex all over the world that when things go bad, it must have been the U.S.'s fault in some way.

Personally, I would love for the U.S. to become an isolationist country once again, and not have to deal with all these foreign politics like it is entangled right now.

Hate America all you want. Just know that we will be there for you no matter how ungrateful you are. When a country invades, or terrorists attack you, America will stand by you. No questions asked. That is an unshakeable truth.

I blame bush and the 95% of retarded american's for ruining my country
i mean how hard is it not to get into seriously debt like most americans are, oh wait you would need to know math, have a little bit of common sense and a little will power

A lot of 'hate' towards the United States is produced by foreign and trade policies which are heavily influenced by lobby groups inside the United States; you'd be surprised by how many of these protectionist groups have enough influence in the government (and can manipulate the legal system when all else fails) and use this influence to maximize their profits at the expense of the American public and foreign companies at the same time.

I don't want to be overly cynical, but (at times) it seems like the United States is as corrupt as most tin-pot dictatorships around the world.

The last two posts are the reasons why EU VS USA trheads should be closed...Still I don't get it why many feel so offended..

The EU, Russia, China, and Japan had plenty of warning since 2001 that this was going to happen.

1 of 2 things could have happened.

1. Thy could have created new economic policy, making it so that these nations weren't so dependent on US markets. And then thosw markets would have crashed, leading to WWIII

or 2. Do what they are doing, and work in orchestration so that the strength of the many different economies prevents one major market from actually crashing and continues with a series of adjustments of a longer period of time.