Define success? Military success? If bullying is an indicator of success. Mind you how's Afghanistan coming along?
Economic? Social? Proportionately there are more poor in the US and more children who go hungry at night than the other industrialized nations. According to the OECD educational ranking in educational performance, the US doesn't even make the top 20 for reading, maths or sciences for the 8th grade - the best ranking was in science 22nd. http://www.geographic.org/country_ranks/educational_score_performance_country_ranks_2009_oecd.html American 15-year-olds scored at the international average of industrialized nations in science and reading and below the international average in math on the most recent Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, released last year. (http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/pisa2009keyfindings.htm) BTW notice how those nasty countries defined as socialist seem to be doing much better on the measures of Science, Maths and Reading. After all who needs thinking, the party of god will tell you want to think via Faux. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:56 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well...I know the US economy dwarfs the rest of the civilized world so > yeah....you are right...we are out of step with them. > > You could argue that we do so IN SPITE of our politics...but the success of > the American system simply cannot be denied. > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The US is just so much out of step with the civilized world. >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:355863 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
