USA! USA! USA! WE'RE NUMBER 48!!!
USA TODAY united states is fattest among advanced countries.
USA TODAY united states students ranks 48th in math and science.
USA TODAY 49% of americans don't know how long it takes the earth to circle the sun.
"if the usa's students matched finland analysis suggests the us economy would grow 9-16 percent"
so, it turns out that our problems are what i have always feared: we are fat and stupid.
on cnn this morning they had a piece about farm workers in california's grape orchards, the workers, who are all mexicans, make 8 dollars per hour but they take taxes out though most of the workers are illegal. they asked the farm's labor manager how many 'americans' have ever applied for the work. answer.. NONE. so many we can add lazy to fat and stupid.
those statistics should stun and dismay all of you. we are going to end up a second rate country if we don't a. improve our educational system (and i don't have the slightest idea of how to do that since, i feel, the real problem lies with the parents who do not get involved in their childrens education .. oh the schools could be better, the teachers better trained but if parents aren't involved then kids will continue to fall way behind the rest of the world) and at the same time b. get americans off their fat asses and take some of the shit jobs that are out there. hey go pick some grapes for three months and you will lose some weight..
over the years on my blogs and in private letters to various people i have espoused the idea that americans don't really want to get rich because that requires way too much work, they just want to live like they are. during boom times, americans buy more and bigger STUFF. a bigger car, though they don't need it, a bigger house, though they don't need it, new furniture, though they don't need it, another tv, another gaget or gizmo and at the same time, save nothing. facts bear me out: during the bush years we went on a shopping spree but wages remained FLAT. so, we weren't earning more, we were just buying more. and, of course, eating more.
the jobs of the future are going to require specialized knowledge and our kids aren't getting that. you know where more people speak english than any other country? CHINA. how many of our kids are learning chinese? people in europe speak 5 or more languages and here we don't even speak english properly much less be fluent in others.
fat, stupid, lazy and poorly educated. dat's us.
USA TODAY united states students ranks 48th in math and science.
USA TODAY 49% of americans don't know how long it takes the earth to circle the sun.
"if the usa's students matched finland analysis suggests the us economy would grow 9-16 percent"
so, it turns out that our problems are what i have always feared: we are fat and stupid.
on cnn this morning they had a piece about farm workers in california's grape orchards, the workers, who are all mexicans, make 8 dollars per hour but they take taxes out though most of the workers are illegal. they asked the farm's labor manager how many 'americans' have ever applied for the work. answer.. NONE. so many we can add lazy to fat and stupid.
those statistics should stun and dismay all of you. we are going to end up a second rate country if we don't a. improve our educational system (and i don't have the slightest idea of how to do that since, i feel, the real problem lies with the parents who do not get involved in their childrens education .. oh the schools could be better, the teachers better trained but if parents aren't involved then kids will continue to fall way behind the rest of the world) and at the same time b. get americans off their fat asses and take some of the shit jobs that are out there. hey go pick some grapes for three months and you will lose some weight..
over the years on my blogs and in private letters to various people i have espoused the idea that americans don't really want to get rich because that requires way too much work, they just want to live like they are. during boom times, americans buy more and bigger STUFF. a bigger car, though they don't need it, a bigger house, though they don't need it, new furniture, though they don't need it, another tv, another gaget or gizmo and at the same time, save nothing. facts bear me out: during the bush years we went on a shopping spree but wages remained FLAT. so, we weren't earning more, we were just buying more. and, of course, eating more.
the jobs of the future are going to require specialized knowledge and our kids aren't getting that. you know where more people speak english than any other country? CHINA. how many of our kids are learning chinese? people in europe speak 5 or more languages and here we don't even speak english properly much less be fluent in others.
fat, stupid, lazy and poorly educated. dat's us.
posted by Ron Shock | 10:16 AM
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