"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
...and the USA produces over 30% of all the world's product. That means the USA is energy efficient! You frikin' moonbat bozo!
If this is true then I would like for Mr. Weisberg to answer this question:
Then why are foreigners clamoring to get into this country? We can't keep them out. They die in the desert just for the chance to live here.
Okay, Barry, if you really believe this, then quit consuming grain, meat, oil, coal and steel. Try living on barley grass and walking, figure our how to warm yourself without coal, light your house without electricity and just say no to any building or machine that contains steel. This would of course include giving up your computer. Not only does this guy hate America, he hates every significant improvement since the bronze age.
"This national disaster has been made possible by the loyal American taxpayer"
Geez I can't win. The scumbags take all my money through taxes and then turn around and blame me for all the ill's of the country !!!
With 300 million people, we consume, and produce a lot of those commodities. With those commodities, we also produce about 75% of the wealth in this world.
This academic twit spouts custom-made statistical categories that emphasize the one word so dear to their tiny bleeding hearts, "collective". As a pampered socialist living off the American free enterprise system, I'm sure he consumes far more resources than the value he provides to the world.
"It leads the world in per capita consumption of five basic commodities: grain, meat, oil, coal and steel."
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And Mr. Weisberg...you don't help much. Why, your whole article just wasted quite a few trees, not to mention the utilities used to power your computer and printer, and heat the building where you wrote this twaddle.
Stuff your opinions where the sun doesn't shine, Mr. Weisberg. I love the United States and I'm proud of my country.
"37th in health care performance..."
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I assume what he's talking about is access to "free" health care. In most countries where socialized medicine prevails, there is little if any research or development...no new drugs, equipment or other treatment for disease and injury. This is why when people are seriously ill and they have the means to do so, they come to the U.S. for treatment.
It is not the business of government to be compassionate. It is the business of government to follow the Constitution and enforce property rights and equality under the law.
The ills that the author complains about are the result of the lefts efforts to deviate from that and put government where it doesn't belong.
I bet this guy's indicators put Cuba ahead of the US. Which is why so many people risk their lives to leave the US to get to Cuba. /sarcasm
The best indicator of a country's health are the lengths people are willing to go to either leave it or get into it.
"Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright"
Oh, the one who drank a toast with a representative of the worst regime in the World? She's our moral compass?
Typical. Concepts that won't fit onto a bumper sticker are too much for these guys to grasp.
Reading this tripe, you can just feel the blind, seething hatred the left has for this country. These people are mentally ill.
By what right does this elitist use the letterhead of a taxpayer-funded institution to promulgate his idiosyncratic views? Either he is elected to a position where that's appropriate, or he writes in as a private citizen just like gusopol3
Barry is disappointed that the US hasn't fallen to communism yet even though the communists were about dead last in every measurement.