On Jan 25, 2009, at 5:09 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On 25-Jan-2009, at 14:26, Chris Gehlker wrote: >> There are some areas where the US is clearly behind many other >> countries in the developed world. These include health care, >> education >> and nutrition. Crime control and intellectual property law are also >> areas where the US needs to do some catch up. In these areas the >> rational course of action for the US is to follow. > > > I disagree. These are precisely the sorts of the areas where the US > is ready to lead (well, at least where Obama wants to put the US into > a position of being able to lead). Our health care sucks, our > education system is one of the best in the world, but only at the top > levels (yes, it is, there's a reason people come here for their > graduate studies). We used to have excellent food-safety before we > gutted the USDA inspection programs under Reagan, etc. etc.
Hmm, You say you disagree but then you proceed to agree. -- Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. -Steven Wright, comedian (b. 1955) _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
