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Third world status is defined by a wide separation of the rich and the rest of us. In that sense America is already a third world nation.
the public option in this health care plan. 72% of Americans want the remainder of the stimulus money taken back to pay down the debt. It's not working.
Take that money and apply to the debt - that would provide a stimulitive effect in showing the world we are getting serious about putting our own house in order...
I thought the term was now obsolete.
Third world status is defined by a wide separation of the rich and the rest of us. In that sense America is already a third world nation. The New Deal and Great Society for fifty plus years moved us forward, it wasn't till Reagan that the slide backward began.
Inequality on the March by J. Bradford DeLong
Project Syndicate
Amazon.com: The United States since 1980 (The World Since 1980) (9780521677554): Dean Baker: Books
OpEdNews - Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
the public option in this health care plan. 72% of Americans want the remainder of the stimulus money taken back to pay down the debt. It's not working.
Some comments really jumped out at me. I wish I had a better understanding considering how bold they are:
Ringel05
Thankfully there has been a resurgence by some higher educational providers during the past two decades to apply a much more rounded "classical" education (including our economic system), the type of education that taught people how, not what to think.
Classical education? Not sure what that means. Any examples?
The arts and humanities were the primary undergraduate fields of study prior to the turn of the century. After the 1930s and 40s more concentration was given to the technical areas of education while reducing the required A & H course loads. This trend continued to such a degree that in the 1980s & 90s most (non-humanities) undergraduate majors became in essence glorified vocational training, prep schools for more focused graduate (technical/scientific/business) courses.
Yes, the US is a third world nation.Is America becoming a “Third World” country? I believe it is.
1. After Sputnik, America became concerned that a Soviet Satellite was right over our heads and moved towards and promoted science as a way to fight back. It was vital to our future as a country. Sputnik was a danger that was "right there" and over us day and night.
Well, lately, it hasn’t worked out very well. Many areas of science are no longer taught in lower and middle schools because the schools just don't have the money to "fight the controversy". By ridiculing entire branches of science, some have created a "controversy" out of "mysticism" and made scientists seem either untrustworthy, lying or some kind of "elitist" with an "agenda".
Many don’t see the need for higher education because they believe that "Jesus" will save us. Sounds very “Third World”. Religion is replacing education.
2. Check out the free health clinic setting up shop in LA at the Forum that lasted for a few days. The organizers of this event usually set up shop in Africa or India. But in LA? In California? Who would show up? Turns out thousands. Turns out they had to turn people away.
People spending the night sleeping on sidewalks to get free medical care? In America?
Seeing a little girl getting free glasses. If she didn't get for free there, she wouldn't get any? People saying that the alternative to this health care is "pain"? In America?
This wasn’t “illegals”. This was American families. Many have jobs. They just can’t afford insurance. Some people were seeing the dentist for the first time in years. Even though many were turned away because there were so many, they didn’t scream. They didn’t call names. They were polite and orderly and thankful.
But the question is, "Why would we need to set something up like this in the first place"?
3. Many of our jobs have moved overseas. We are becoming this huge, uneducated labor pool.
So yes, I believe that we are becoming a Third World country. I wish someone could explain how we aren’t.
Yes, the US is a third world nation.Is America becoming a Third World country? I believe it is.
1. After Sputnik, America became concerned that a Soviet Satellite was right over our heads and moved towards and promoted science as a way to fight back. It was vital to our future as a country. Sputnik was a danger that was "right there" and over us day and night.
Well, lately, it hasnt worked out very well. Many areas of science are no longer taught in lower and middle schools because the schools just don't have the money to "fight the controversy". By ridiculing entire branches of science, some have created a "controversy" out of "mysticism" and made scientists seem either untrustworthy, lying or some kind of "elitist" with an "agenda".
Many dont see the need for higher education because they believe that "Jesus" will save us. Sounds very Third World. Religion is replacing education.
2. Check out the free health clinic setting up shop in LA at the Forum that lasted for a few days. The organizers of this event usually set up shop in Africa or India. But in LA? In California? Who would show up? Turns out thousands. Turns out they had to turn people away.
People spending the night sleeping on sidewalks to get free medical care? In America?
Seeing a little girl getting free glasses. If she didn't get for free there, she wouldn't get any? People saying that the alternative to this health care is "pain"? In America?
This wasnt illegals. This was American families. Many have jobs. They just cant afford insurance. Some people were seeing the dentist for the first time in years. Even though many were turned away because there were so many, they didnt scream. They didnt call names. They were polite and orderly and thankful.
But the question is, "Why would we need to set something up like this in the first place"?
3. Many of our jobs have moved overseas. We are becoming this huge, uneducated labor pool.
So yes, I believe that we are becoming a Third World country. I wish someone could explain how we arent.
The wealth is in the hands of a few.