I love my country, I have served my country, I served twenty years in the U.S. army Reserve. I worked for a living for over 50 years. I have traveled eight times to Germany, seven times to Canada, twice to Japan and once to Honduras. I have seen the exquisite beauty of Hokkaido and the Winter Ice Festival. I have seen the abject poverty of the mountains of Honduras. Many times I have stayed in the small villages in beautiful Bavaria. I have walked the walls and streets of Rothenburg and Dinkelsbuhl and Nuremburg in Germany. I have shopped the alleys in downtown Tokyo. I have strolled down six foot deep tunneled snow sidewalks in Sapporo, Japan.
I always welcomed coming home to the USA, except for the drive from one airport to the next in New York City, where the expressway was a guantlet of old sofas, burned out cars, old tires and blowing litter. I hope that has changed.
Now I sit through endless Congressional hearings on C-Span and have to listen to the endless drivel about how our country is the greatest this and the greatest that. Usually the reference is to our Healthcare System or our Education System. Neither of these declarations are true. Our Healthcare is the most expensive in the world. I will concede that. Our Education system is the most expensive in the world. I will concede that also. However, when facts are facts, the outcomes of our Healthcare System and our Education System are NOT exceptional.
The brilliant article on the Huffington Post expands this realistic truth to other aspects of our exceptional country.
READ IT AND WEEP.
I CANNOT MAKE THESE THINGS UP,
ED
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/american-exceptionalism_n_4170683.html?ref=topbar&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
I always welcomed coming home to the USA, except for the drive from one airport to the next in New York City, where the expressway was a guantlet of old sofas, burned out cars, old tires and blowing litter. I hope that has changed.
Now I sit through endless Congressional hearings on C-Span and have to listen to the endless drivel about how our country is the greatest this and the greatest that. Usually the reference is to our Healthcare System or our Education System. Neither of these declarations are true. Our Healthcare is the most expensive in the world. I will concede that. Our Education system is the most expensive in the world. I will concede that also. However, when facts are facts, the outcomes of our Healthcare System and our Education System are NOT exceptional.
The brilliant article on the Huffington Post expands this realistic truth to other aspects of our exceptional country.
READ IT AND WEEP.
I CANNOT MAKE THESE THINGS UP,
ED
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/american-exceptionalism_n_4170683.html?ref=topbar&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
