Science Blogs - ProPublica has a really interesting article about a Canadian woman who just received American citizenship -- but only because she gave answers she knew to be wrong on the citizenship test...Some examples:
Take Question 36. It asks applicants to name two members of the president's Cabinet. Among the correct answers is "Vice President." The vice president is a cabinet-level officer but he's not a Cabinet member. Cabinet members are unelected heads of executive departments [4], such as the Defense Department, or the State Department.
I also wasn't asked Question 1: "What is the supreme law of the land?"
The official answer: "the Constitution." A friend and legal scholar was aghast. That answer, he said, is "no more than one-third correct." He's right.
Article VI, clause 2 in the Constitution, known as the Supremacy Clause [9], explicitly says that three things -- the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties -- together "shall be the supreme law of the land."
No shit we put the wrong answers on our citizenship test. Our unofficial motto is fake it till you make it. If you don't know that much you're clearly not ready to gain entry into our prestigious and exclusive club.
We don't just accept any old scrub who's worked hard and obeyed the laws, if that's all you got then congrats, you can stay here like the rest of the illegal immigrants but you'll never be an American. Spare me the Ellis Island bullshit about your tired, hungry, your poor. America wasn't built on that shit.
America is built on generations of braggarts and loud mouths, faking their ways to the top, running this country from positions we're not nearly qualified for. You don't know jack about foreign policies? Who cares? Say you do, lean on the experience of your rich father and run the country. Want to run the investment office for a Fortune 500 office but you're not quite sure what you're getting yourself into? Big deal, buy now, and explain later that you never fully understood the investments you got everyone into, after you've lost millions of other peoples money and ruined an entire countries economy, no biggie.
