Posted on 11/24/2012 11:45:48 AM PST by Olog-hai
We’ve finally emerged from the season in which Americans were asked by the pollsters and politicians: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” But sometimes it’s important to contemplate the question of progress from a longer view: How are we doing on the scale of a generation?
To answer that question, take this brief quiz.
Over the past two decades, what have the U.S. trends been for the following important measures of social health: high school dropout rates, college enrollment, juvenile crime, drunken driving, traffic deaths, infant mortality, life expectancy, per capita gasoline consumption, workplace injuries, air pollution, divorce, male-female wage equality, charitable giving, voter turnout, per capita GDP and teen pregnancy?The answer for all of them is the same: The trend is positive. Almost all those varied metrics of social wellness have improved by more than 20% over the past two decades. And that’s not counting the myriad small wonders of modern medicine that have improved our quality of life as well as our longevity: the anti-depressants and insulin pumps and quadruple bypasses. …
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Yup, lust suffices.
Following important measures of social health:
1)high school dropout rates—Not for the blacks or Latino’s
2) college enrollment—We place the SAME high school dropouts in remedial college classes and Voila: call it increased college enrollment
3)juvenile crime-—whites have dropped: blacks rate is so high the media hides the stats
4) drunken driving—for whites it;s down—for illegals it has skyrocketed
5) traffic deaths—once again, illegals and minorities have a higher rate
6) manufacturing infant mortality—does this include the aborted?
7) life expectancy—For whites it’s gone up, minorities are falling, and the Homo’s have a MUCH shorter life expectancy then the media will admit,
8) workplace injuries...fewer workers in dangerous jobs due to increased productivity via technology; lawyers are still suing the sh!t out of companies for hot coffee etc.
9) divorce-—fewer marriages, more cohabit due to higher tax rates and generous social benifits for unwed mothers.
10) male-female wage equality—fewer blue collar jobs for men,
11) charitable giving-—ALWAYS more conservatives than lefties
12) voter turnout-—illegal and multiple votes cast by the dead ,
13) teen pregnancy-—please, MTV has shows about the joys of teen pregnancy.
the kids will NEVER understand it. Not even when it happens after the child is an adult.
NEVER. They just don’t have the language to articulate it.
It is ultimate abuse and neglect.
Pretty telling that anti-depressants are first on the liberal list. That's what makes liberals all so highly subject to suggestion.
You must go vote for the Democrat ... must vote Democrat ...
Evil is good ... evil is good ... evil is good ...
What??? Racist!!!
Fantasy island. The plane boss, the plane. Uh, oh ... boom.
It is short for "Ministry of Truth", from Orwell's 1984, I believe.
It's worthwhile to remember that in the Fall of 2001, an earthquake of 6.X hit the San Fransisco area, and 3 people died (from heart attacks, but they were counted as caused by the earthquake.) A few days later, a slightly less powerful earthquake hit Iran, and 30,000 people died as a result, mostly because their mud hut crushed them when it fell down.
Moral of the story; there is an enormous social value in the existence of building codes and the accumulated wealth and social will to comply with those building codes.
A lesson lost of the morally bankrupt social engineers who fail to recognize that one true law exists in nature; the parasite must be smaller than the host. If there are no Sharks, there are no Pilot Fish.
The Ministry of Truth—Minitrue, in Newspeak—was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 meters into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:I always wondered what a failure of technology would have done to the Party’s power. But Orwell never went there . . .
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size. So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from the roof of Victory Mansions you could see all four of them simultaneously. They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided. The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.
The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons. …
Good point, biologically speaking. :)
As the majority white middle class population decreases, the social statistics are only going to get worse and worse.
Had boomers kept the American cultural melting pot in institutions and culture, that would be different.
But we permitted liberals to ghettoize minority and white youth with the socialist slogan “don’t act white.” We permitted them to feminize and drug males. Well then, expect statistics to match the ghetto culture that has been imposed upon American children.
As go white males, so goes America.
We are in a nightmare....from which we can not awaken.
“sure you can lower high school drop out rates when the curriculum is dumbed down and students with failing grades are still issued diplomas”
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Of course and even more so when college graduates are incapable of passing a tenth grade final exam from a public school circa 1960. I am serious when I write this, it is no joke, we would have a real need for only a tiny percentage of the current number of university classrooms if K-12 education was anything like what it used to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XScQCaLmtAw
“The barbarians are inside the gate.”
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I wish it could be no worse than that. The fact is that the barbarians entered the gate long ago, they now occupy the palace and rule over the rest of us.
“As go white males, so goes America.”
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Then we’re headed for hell on greased skids! The average young white male is about as mature at 30 as the average ten year old was before 1950. Even less so in some ways.
Yep. The human brain on drugs...starting at age six. That’s a lot of it. They were acting up in the femenazi schools.
Are you better off than you were 20 years ago? For me, no. Not even close.
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