Posted on 03/04/2005 9:42:33 AM PST by TWohlford
"I am not a number! I am a free man!"
This post was #2.
we just need to keep saying it. america is #1. we know it's true. screw facts.
They've used this same list for the past 30 years or so for showing how the USA sucks.
"Survival of the fittest" - what constitutes "fit" rarely is what ivory-tower types think it is.
What a bunch of BS.
You mean aside from quoting only the leftist pollsters?
Why don't they ask about things like oh, I don't know, immigration?
Where are more jobs created each year?
Who patents more?
The poverty rates, are they of people living here legally?
Where does the US rank in bringing democracy to other countries?
Where does the US rank in it's overall power in the world?
How come the US is the ONLY superpower left?
How much debt have we forgiven in our history? How many lives were saved due to our involvement in warfare?
If the EU is so freakin' great at producing "quality" teachers, why do half of my teachers come here for their masters?
Why do we produce nearly a quarter (more?) of the worlds' food supply when China, Europe, and Africa have MUCH more farm space?
But that is all aside the point.
Point is, we're number 1. I dare anyone outside of the US to challenge that point.
Michael Ventura sucks!
• Twenty-five percent of Americans (liberals) think their lives revolve around the government every day (This Week, Mar. 4, 2005).
I want my 5 minutes of life back from reading this crap and doing this post.
He quotes the NYT, The European Dream, the AP, USA Today. Has he every read anything informative?
My gracious, somebody's grip of the facts seems to have slipped from precise citation to idiotic hyperbole throught the long and somnolent course of this little rant. It seems interesting that he commits the very sin in the last sentence of which he accuses others in the preceding.
It's the old straw man ploy - does anyone imagine when he says "The U.S. is number one" that it includes all of the categories mentioned? That the speaker is claiming total superiority in every respect measured by the depressing list enumerated above? Ridiculous.
And by the way, anyone quoting West Wing and Jeremy Rifkin as gospel is simply not to be taken seriously. On the whole, I'd give this one a two.
These numbers are MUCH better than I would have guessed.
Yeah, screw the NYT facts.
If it SUCKS so badly here, WHY OH WHY does EVERYONE keep coming here, even people who profess to HATE it here?
Also, those stats on infant mortality are complete BS. There is no uniformity in the standard by which it is measured. Cuba, which has a vested interest in having a "low" infant mortality rate so it can trumpet how good socialized medicine is. They are accused, accurately I suspect, of fudging their stat, underreporting deaths, etc.
In other parts of the world (probably including Cuba, though I don't have that data at my fingers) they define deaths of "viable" infants differently. Some places only count an infant as viable when they can survive "unassisted" outside the womb. The US counts deaths of live infants who may be born alive very prematurely and would never survive on their own.
It is all complete and unadulterated BS. We can do better in many areas, but I think we are doing pretty darn well regardless. How many people leave here to go elsewhere?
Gosh, with all those problems, I don't believe we'll be able to prop up the rest of the world like we always do - Attention, world: your check is NOT in the mail...
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