Posted on 07/12/2016 5:12:09 AM PDT by expat_panama
It is the worst of times — well no, not really. This past week we had shootings of police and shootings by police. The world economy and political situation is a mess. It is a time of crisis — without an apparent Churchill, Thatcher or Reagan. Yet, in many ways, things have never been better.
In 1930, 304 American police officers were killed in the line of duty; last year it was 122. In 1930, the U.S. population was a little over one third of what it is today, so, on a population adjusted basis, there were about seven times as many policemen being killed per year 85 years ago compared to recent years...
...in the shootings of police in Dallas, and that is that the killer was taken out by a robot... ...robots will take over the function of obtaining the driver’s license, car registration, and looking into the pulled-over car while the police officer does the questioning from the safety...
...homicide rates in the United States have been falling for decades and currently are about half what they were 50 years ago...
...advances in food science have enabled mankind to grow far more and better food in far less space...
...those who say the end of the world is close — often religious figures, fortune tellers and wayward scientists. As an economist, I predict that the continuous debt buildup... ...not be the end of the world.
And finally, one item of very good news is that the climate alarmists have been wrong. Their predictions of big rises in sea levels, the end of Arctic sea ice, and the end of polar bears, which were also supposed to have occurred by now, didn’t happen...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Only the 28 gunfire deaths and the 9 vehicular assault deaths are the result of criminal action with the intent to harm the officer—so an average of one every five days. The Dallas incident and the Michigan dustup yesterday are two of only four incidents involving multiple deaths, with Dallas being the only one resulting in more than two deaths.
Stood alone? Where were they when Hitler took Austria? Poland? That Little brave country to their north?
To compare Churchill and England to Mr. Trump and the USA, is not only foolish it is truly asinine.
So, got nothing on the Cuban Missile Crisis?
I’ll let others judge the merits of our Churchill/Trump comparison.
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