What i have gathered it's the wealthy tycoons that have most of the wealth, while there are many ordinary citizens that have very little income.

i can drive there in few hours

Especially Norway with all those fjords.

Why do the people of this country place so much value in "faith"?

I have been in Norway and i can tell you that those pictures in google have no comparison on the real thing.
Only reason i'm not moving there is the unbelievably difficult language and the fact that i can drive there in few hours.

and that's 8 hours away.

Yes, and the problem keeps increasing. It is largely due to conservative economic reforms instituted in the 1980's, referred to as "trickle-down economics" or "Reaganomics" after President Ronald Reagan. The idea was sold on the premise that if the wealthiest Americans were given tax breaks and allowed to keep more money, it would spur economic development and that money would eventually work its way down to the lower tiers of society as more jobs were created.

I imagine because the people who make the rules are of faith. No taxes on the churches because that would be an unchristian thing to do because it might offend god. Plus a little bit of self serving.

Its that way when talking about the amazement and poetry of science. I get high on astronomy and space and its so hard to relate to others who get their kicks out of rolling themselves down a hill in a big rubber tire or take in narcotics. Sometimes they even treat me with hostility.

The people didn't care and the teacher didn't care, we watched hollywood movies like the Core (an inceredibly stupid scifi film) 50% of the time.

Are you an intellectual?". I wasn't sure how to respond, so I said "Uh, I guess - " to which she immediately and hatefully snapped "I hate intellectuals."

Well that's about the same amount of time i was talking about.

But that's insane! How could anyone think that giving more money to rich people could in any way benefit the poor?

Well i guess Reagan was just the type of idiot to come up with something that stupid. More probably he didn't even invent it, but was tricked into approving it by the rich tycoons.

Backs up my theory that the president doesn't really hold the power in the US, but is rather a puppet of the 1%.

I intend to hike(backpack) the full 2100 miles of the Appalachian Trail sometime,

Ronald Reagan was many things, but he was no puppet. His agendas were his own, or were only things he strongly agreed with. Whatever else he may have been, he was a strong leader.

The Republican party, that's who...

Picture i took atop a massive rock.

I've actually been to the southern terminus of the Trail, at Amicalola Falls in Georgia. Having seen the desert Southwest and the mountains of Alaska, however, the Appalachians hold no allure for me

Like I said, 2-party system makes no sense.

Well i'm really not very educated on the presidents of your country, so i really don't know about their policies.

Look at that monster, its amazing what time can do.

Neither do most Americans dry

I wish we could be a country like Sweden, where a political party can come into existence and rise to have a large influence in only a few years (bonus points to whoever can guess which specific party I'm referring to).

Neither do most Americans

But hey, at least you have Obama. I think he has had some of the best ideas in improving your country in a long time.

Its amazing the amoutn of hostiltiy he gets from certain people, some of the bumper stickers around here are barbaric. Also, there is a guy who comes into the grocery store I work at who literally rants about the evil socialist muslim terrorist traitor Obama and leaves propaganda around the place when hes taking to people. Its like his life purpose now to get Obama out of office. I really didnt belive people like that existed in the real world till i met him.

But hey, at least you have Obama. I think he has had some of the best ideas in improving your country in a long time.

Seriously? Wow. That amount of idiocy hurts my brain.