Many of the best and brightest I know are from the States. The best Gymnastics club. The best Gymnastics equipment company.
Apple and Google are from the USA.
Americans are the most innovative.
But my best guess is that the USA will go down the crapper fast, rather than have a graceful decline as did Great Britain.
There’s a fair bit of truth in this graphic.
The U.S. government gridlock looks to be continuing for at least the next 6 years.
Republicans are not going to change fast enough to make major improvement.
The Democrats seem to want to copy Republican policy, for the most part. There’s been no serious attempt to improve anything under Obama, aside from a very slight fix of Health Care.
… have wealth equal to that of half the population: report
Just how rich are they? According to a new report by Oxfam, their total fortunes are equal to as much as half of that of the world’s population.
The report, which analyzes a number of studies to highlight the world’s growing economic inequality, was intended as a precursor to the World Economic Forum, which begins in Switzerland this week.
… the wealth of the richest keeps growing, while the bottom 90 per cent (i.e. most of the rest of us) keeps shrinking. …
This kind of headline is bad news for the Tea Party crowd. It’s damage control time for the extreme right wing. Drudge linked to a conservative site claiming the actual statistic is that the 85 richest people own about 0.7% of the world’s wealth.
A perfect world would not have socialism, unions nor minimum wage legislation.
But it seems to me that there is a time and place for each in the development of a society. Take CHINA, for example. Communism to Capitalism is the road map. En route the Chinese people would benefit from Unions and minimum wage laws.
At some point, they’d no longer be needed.
If I want to volunteer (as I am right now) — why should any Government stop me?
If I want to be an unpaid intern — why should any Government stop me?
That must change if they hope to regain the Presidency.
In 2009, 54% of Republicans and 64% of Democrats said humans have evolved over time, a difference of 10 percentage points. Today, 43% of Republicans and 67% of Democrats say humans have evolved, a 24-point gap.
Only 43 percent of Republicans believe in evolution compared with 72 percent for American college graduates. Scientists overwhelming accept evolution as the dominant scientific theory of biological diversity.
You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world.
Professor Bill Sands recommended to me this unbelievably likable educator from Sweden.
Rick McCharles 
