Epic post from a friend - i dont agree with every tiny last detail but i do agree with the broad vast majority of it - and it all bears reading. Heres what he wrote: Its very hard to have a conversation about shifting our society when the conclusion to every argument must be Americas number One! Relevant statistics: Healthcare: 37th (World Health organization) Education: 17th (Economist Intelligence Unit) Math and Science Education: 25th (Harvard) Economic Freedom: 12th (Heritage) Happiness: 17th (United Nations) Freedom: 7th (Frasier institute, yay a top ten!) We are number one in a number of highly pertinent categories: GDP(Is this a good thing given the exploitative context of the C-corp? Im not sure..) Largest percentage of GDP spent on healthcare (given the context of the largest GDP and being ranked 37th by the WHO, are we really going to keep trying to argue that we dont have to overhaul our healthcare system? All of the top 5 have at least a low or zero cost government option for insuring the populace.) guns per capita (Some of you may think this is a good thing, Im not convinced. 89/100 people is a lot. And its readily evident that the oligarchic powers that be are not afraid of the people. i would like to think that wed revolt over infringement of civil liberties but it mostly seems to be whack jobs who dont want to pay taxes.) school shootings Number of prisoners and incarceration rate Illegal drug use (supports the previous item) We are the Fattest Most hours watching TV... Teen pregnancy Car thefts Credit card debt Credit car fraud Mortgage debt military bases arms exports money spent on elections Military spending student loan debt years spent in school Laws and lawyers... These are our results. Do you see why this country is perceived as fat, selfish, stupid and belligerent? We are the Eric Cartman of the world.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:48:08 +0000