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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. …
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Hee hee...these cretins actually believe ‘science’ and ‘medicine’ advancements will be focused on prolonging their miserable worthless, non-contributing lives, don’t they? At present with the re-election of their Messiah, they are living a fool’s dream that is at best a couple of weeks deep with regard to the support structure that continues their oblivious existence. It’s a pity they’ll be the first to get ‘voted off the island’ in the death panel game.
In a word....bullsh!t.
The answer for all of them is the same: The trend is positive.
It sounds like he may get his statistics from CNN.
statistics can be manipulated according to one’s own bias quite easily
and the so called indicators of societal health are beyond suspect.
divorce rates are low because people are shaking up and women are choosing single motherhood over stable two parent relationships
is it really good for society when a large portion of society is currently ingesting anti-depressants?
sure you can lower high school drop out rates when the curriculum is dumbed down and students with failing grades are still issued diplomas
the chinese also thought things were great under Mao when 60million people starved to death... do not believe the hype
I don’t have stats off the top of my head, but this report is saying that teen pregnancy is down. Okay, maybe it is. However, we have in the last couple of generations completely institutionalized the concept of out of wedlock pregnancy and broken homes and single mothers and other ad hoc living arrangements.
It’s not PC to talk about how we are raising so many of our children in less than ideal circumstances nowadays. So while teen pregnancy may be down, far more of the kids being born are not being raised in the best circumstances, with both mother and father in the home.
I know I just made a number of value judgements which you aren’t supposed to do in these politically correct times. Flame away.
What about the trend towards people in their 20s having massive student debt and no useful job skills to show for four more years of doing nothing but letting someone else take care of them, yet still feel entitled to the fruits of others’ labor?
That’s a statistic that can be manipulated, especially if the percentage of population that are in their teens in the country is lower than in the past. I wouldn’t worry about what Minitrue has to say about it; they’re counting on people having voluntary “memory holes” . . . the Innerparty doesn’t need to work as hard.
The answer for all of them is the same: The trend is positive.
It sounds like he may get his statistics from CNN. He left out voter fraud, class warfare, anti-Caucasionism, unemployment, taxes, DUIs, "missing" and murdered children, loss of freedoms and liberties, communism, no jobs for college graduates, loss of useful college degrees, autistic-acting children who are fixated on their cellphones, children without two parents, illegal immigration and anti-Christian bigotry.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. --Ronald Reagan
Like Face in the A-Team movie, when he’s about to be set on fire?
If they mean THAT kind of “living the dream”, well then, yeah.
minitrue? is that something truthy, but in a small way?
It breaks my heart every time I see or hear about broken homes and the kids involved. I really just want to strangle the so called adults.
I just cant understand how two people were in love enough to produce a child and now they can’t stand to live on the same planet with that person. Does the ex represent all the bad choices they have made?
Yes, life in the United States, for now, remains better than much of the rest of the world, but still, many insist on following one who has vowed to 'fundamentally transform' the nation.
and hos much of this is momentum from more conservative times?
love is not required to produce a child
Comes from 1984; it’s the Newspeak abbreviation for “Ministry of Truth”.
I would wager all of it is.
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