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Obviously!! That's why the U.S. has the best research universities in the world, by far the highest GDP, with the highest - by far - private per capita expenditure in charities, highest rates of volunteering per capita...because we are so irresponsible, selfish, unaware and uneducated.
Stupid in America
For "Stupid in America," a special report ABC will air Friday, we gave identical tests to high school students in New Jersey and in Belgium. The Belgian kids cleaned the American kids' clocks. The Belgian kids called the American students "stupid."
We didn't pick smart kids to test in Europe and dumb kids in the United States. The American students attend an above-average school in New Jersey, and New Jersey's kids have test scores that are above average for America.
The American boy who got the highest score told me: "I'm shocked, 'cause it just shows how advanced they are compared to us."
The Belgians did better because their schools are better. At age ten, American students take an international test and score well above the international average. But by age fifteen, when students from forty countries are tested, the Americans place twenty-fifth. The longer kids stay in American schools, the worse they do in international competition. They do worse than kids from countries that spend much less money on education.
The study shows that, dollar for dollar, European pharmaceutical researchers outdo their American colleagues in "innovative performance or the introduction of first-in-class, biotech, and orphan products," a finding that could have enormous implications for the current debate over the cost of reforming health care in the United States.
I haven't seen to much charity in the hearts of the people that are jumping up and down like chimps to deny affordable health insurance to their fellow Americans. When I said selfish, I was not even referring to charity. There is no denying that this is a nation of gluttony.
THE WORLD'S EXPERTS AT WASTE
The daily waste generated by an American's lifestyle amounts to twenty times his or her body weight. In fact, Americans are ten times more efficient at wasting resources than at using them. The average American uses more than twice as much fossil fuel as the average Briton or Japanese. The United States alone consumes one third of the world's paper, even though it has only 6% of the world's forests, and it recycles only half as much waste paper as does Germany. The typical American discards nearly one ton of trash per person per year, two to three times as much as by a typical West European. Every three months Americans junk enough aluminum cans to replace all the country's commercial aircraft.
The biggest waste sector is probably energy. True, things improved quite a bit in the wake of the 1973 and 1979 oil price hikes, when Americans learned to get more work out of every drop of oil and lump of coal. According to energy expert Amory Lovins, Americans now save $200 billion worth of energy per year-but they still waste $300 billion worth. Nor is the waste binge confined to individual citizens. Big business competes well in the waste stakes. U.S. power plants waste energy equal to Japan's total energy use.
The World's Experts At Waste by Norman Myers (http://www.populationpress.org/publication/2002-7-myers.html - broken link)
Did you deliberately ignore the fact that Kobe has been served in the White House by previous admininstrations?
Where is the link showing that the temp as being kept at 80 to remind him of Hawaii? Is that just suposition?
Did you deliberately ignore the fact that the man who ran on the platform of "change" is doing the same thing as previous adminstrations and that's the defense you use?
For "Stupid in America," a special report ABC will air Friday, we gave identical tests to high school students in New Jersey and in Belgium. The Belgian kids cleaned the American kids' clocks. The Belgian kids called the American students "stupid."
We didn't pick smart kids to test in Europe and dumb kids in the United States. The American students attend an above-average school in New Jersey, and New Jersey's kids have test scores that are above average for America.
The American boy who got the highest score told me: "I'm shocked, 'cause it just shows how advanced they are compared to us."
The Belgians did better because their schools are better. At age ten, American students take an international test and score well above the international average. But by age fifteen, when students from forty countries are tested, the Americans place twenty-fifth. The longer kids stay in American schools, the worse they do in international competition. They do worse than kids from countries that spend much less money on education.
The study shows that, dollar for dollar, European pharmaceutical researchers outdo their American colleagues in "innovative performance or the introduction of first-in-class, biotech, and orphan products," a finding that could have enormous implications for the current debate over the cost of reforming health care in the United States.
I haven't seen to much charity in the hearts of the people that are jumping up and down like chimps to deny affordable health insurance to their fellow Americans. When I said selfish, I was not even referring to charity. There is no denying that this is a nation of gluttony.
THE WORLD'S EXPERTS AT WASTE
The daily waste generated by an American's lifestyle amounts to twenty times his or her body weight. In fact, Americans are ten times more efficient at wasting resources than at using them. The average American uses more than twice as much fossil fuel as the average Briton or Japanese. The United States alone consumes one third of the world's paper, even though it has only 6% of the world's forests, and it recycles only half as much waste paper as does Germany. The typical American discards nearly one ton of trash per person per year, two to three times as much as by a typical West European. Every three months Americans junk enough aluminum cans to replace all the country's commercial aircraft.
The biggest waste sector is probably energy. True, things improved quite a bit in the wake of the 1973 and 1979 oil price hikes, when Americans learned to get more work out of every drop of oil and lump of coal. According to energy expert Amory Lovins, Americans now save $200 billion worth of energy per year-but they still waste $300 billion worth. Nor is the waste binge confined to individual citizens. Big business competes well in the waste stakes. U.S. power plants waste energy equal to Japan's total energy use.
The World's Experts At Waste by Norman Myers (http://www.populationpress.org/publication/2002-7-myers.html - broken link)
No doubt American Public schools are a disgrace.
What is Obama and his cronies doing about it besides giving a Daddy like lecture to do your homework?
Maybe if the NEA was dissolved we would get somewhere. Maybe if we dissolved the pathetic greedy selfish teachers unions our schools will actually catch up.
Maybe if parents had a choice as to where their children go to school there would be improvement via competition.
Maybe if we had a voucher program so inner city students do not have to attend the worst public schools in the nation there would be progress in education.
Last edited by cleanhouse; 09-22-2009 at 12:37 PM..
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Did you deliberately ignore the fact that Kobe has been served in the White House by previous admininstrations? Where is the link showing that the temp as being kept at 80 to remind him of Hawaii? Is that just suposition?
Here's the link, and from the Huffing and Puffing left wing side, no doubt, so you can't accuse me of getting it from Fox news.
For "Stupid in America," a special report ABC will air Friday, we gave identical tests to high school students in New Jersey and in Belgium. The Belgian kids cleaned the American kids' clocks. The Belgian kids called the American students "stupid."
Who's to say they didn't pit a underserved class of students from Newark against an aristocratic class of Belgian students?
Regardless, the U.S. offers new innovations, intellectual contributions and research to the world year after year; the iPod, the CAT scan, the Internet.
Can you name one Belgian invention or contribution to the world besides waffles?
When Secretary of Energy Steven Chu thinks of the American people, he apparently sees a bunch of unruly teenagers who need to be told how to act.
Asked at a seminar on reconstructing America's electrical grid about the Obama administration's efforts to persuade people to conserve energy, Chu said “the American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act. The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
Obama energy secretary to Americans: Stop acting like teenagers! | Washington Examiner (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-energy-czar-to-you-Stop-acting-like-teenagers-60057097.html - broken link)
Great example of they have forgot they work for us
Who's to say they didn't pit a underserved class of students from Newark against an aristocratic class of Belgian students?
Regardless, the U.S. offers new innovations, intellectual contributions and research to the world year after year; the iPod, the CAT scan, the Internet.
Can you name one Belgian invention or contribution to the world besides waffles?
It's right in the article. I think I included that particular paragraph in my post.
We didn't pick smart kids to test in Europe and dumb kids in the United States. The American students attend an above-average school in New Jersey, and New Jersey's kids have test scores that are above average for America.
Last edited by sickofnyc; 09-22-2009 at 01:23 PM..
I agree - Americans need to stop acting like teenagers. Stop relying on mom and dad (government) to give you everything and go get a job. If you can't make ends meet, work harder. That is what adults do...
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