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Tuesday, July 14th, 2015

Here are 11 things other countries do way better than America

Author:     Larry Schwartz
Source:     The Raw Story/Alternet (U.S.)
Publication Date:     10 Jul 2015 at 00:05 ET
Link: Here are 11 things other countries do way better than America
Stephan:   On the basis of data everything in this report is true, and there is much more that could have been said along these lines. And I just can't express how much I hate saying that. Increasingly I have come to see this as a question of citizen involvement, and the choices made: whether to vote, and for whom to vote. We are a dysfunctional society, and we are going to keep getting worse until more people vote, and vote for wellness. The decline of an empire is not pretty. History is very clear on that point.
Credit: 20th Century Fox/Everett

Credit: 20th Century Fox/Everett

America! Land of the free, home of the brave, and the greatest country on the face of the planet, right? A country with seemingly limitless natural resources, and according to many politicians, anointed by God herself to lead the world out of the wilderness and into a bright new age of liberty and justice for all. Too bad the road to that vision is pockmarked with so many potholes, because we haven’t raised enough taxes on people who can afford to pay to fill them.

Americans, maybe more than anyone on Earth, are guilty of the sin of hubris and excessive pride. As the great Greek poets of the ancient world have taught us, hubris can lead to some really bad outcomes.The reality is that a good portion of the rest of the world has far outpaced the United States in things like healthcare. While the U.S. has painstakingly cobbled together a convoluted insurance-friendly monster called Obamacare (remarkable mostly for how much better it is than […]

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