Originally Posted by filtherton

Something surprisingly interesting from a local weekly paper. Now, before the more simplistic of you brand me an america hater i just want to point out that i'm not the problem here.




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Something to think about. Cuba scores better in infant mortality. We're 37th in terms of overall health performance. Hooray. How does this happen?

I notice that many of the facts are culled from a book entitle "The European Dream". I admit that i know nothing about the book or its author.

It seems that many americans just assume that america is the worldwide leader in everything worthwhile. I'm pretty sure that at one point we were a world leader in many things worthwhile. This list just seems to hit home the idea that our country is in a state of decline.