Posted on 08/19/2009 1:58:52 PM PDT by safetysign
According to the CDC, 66% of adults over the age of 20 are overweight or obese. That is approximately 140 million adults. Somewhere between 15 and 20 million Americans can be classified as alcoholics. As many as 50% of those on welfare are alcoholics. There are 225 million people over 18 years old and 32 million of them do not have a high school degree. There are 32 million adults or 14% who are illiterate (23% in California, 22% in New York, 20% in Florida, 17% in New Jersey). The United States’ spending per pupil in public schools at $9,266 is in the top 5 in the world. New York and New Jersey spend $14,000 per pupil and one-fifth of their adults are illiterate.
Forrest Gump, when asked “Are you stupid or something”, responded “Stupid is as stupid does”. A person’s appearance does not prove they are stupid. It is their deeds and actions which prove whether they are stupid or not. The terms stupid and idiot are not politically correct in today’s America. Intellectually challenged, IQ disadvantaged, aptitude deficient, brain power wanting, and acumen poor might satisfy the PC police. Let’s take a look at their definitions according to Webster’s Dictionary and assess whether they might apply to anyone in the increasingly socialized United States of today.
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Television.
Video games too.
Nanny state results...to be expected...
Synergy: putting liberals in charge of education. Keep the populous stupid and needy. The Democrats need the votes.
And yet we’re still the richest, most innovative, most powerful nation and have the largest manufacturing base in the world, even with a neophyte at the helm. Does the rest of the Earth suck, or what?
Is a person considered literate if they can read and write in Spanish but cannot read or write in English? Those high illiteracy rates in Cali, NY, NJ, and Fla got me wonderin’.
I was going to reference what passes for education in America anymore, but as usual, Twain nails it far better than I ever could.
Whoose he callin stoopid? My mother and father were twins but I don’t look alike.
My 15-year-old watches lots of TV and plays lots of video games. She also reads more than any kid I’ve ever seen. It’s parenting (or lack of) and motivation that make the difference.
Wonder if the apparent AI bloom is not a change in the number of idiots, so much as it reflects the ease at which contemporary idiocy can be realized and amplified and propagated in so many public ways. That is, in the old days, a lot of intemperance and bad ideas were too inconvenient, impractical or expensive to realize. There was scant time and money for more than idiot basics. Now there’s a wealth of idiot choices. Idiot thick crust. Idiot artisinal organic cut with extra room in the seat. Idiot polls indicating belief in an idiot population spike. Unless I miss my guess, this idiot stuff is strictly steady state.
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