want the real news? check page A30.
Today, as usual, the most important news pieces, and the ones that should be given a great deal of attention for the next several weeks (or months, or years) can be found on pages A30 and A46 in Newsday. Not sure about the New York Times. They don't carry it at the Dominican deli acorss the street.
The first is entitled, "North Korea Rejects Nuclear Talks". If there is a forceful international (not economic) threat facing our nation, North Korea must be in the top five, if not number one. Forget Iraq. North Korea not only actually (not fictionally, as was the case with Iraq), but actually has WMDs. And they have the gall to use them. According to the article, North Korea says the United States wants to rule the world. I won't take sides, but I must agree with their opinion that we have an unspoken desire for at least below-the-surface world domination. If the American media would report on such important things a little more often, maybe we could all formulate a better opinion as to how important these talks are to our future.
The Second is: "U.S. Falls In Global Competitiveness Ranking". Apparently, we don't want anybody to realize that we are, in fact, becoming less educated, less innovative, and as a nation we are rapidly embracing an attitude of not worrying about the future. Either that, or the media knows Americans don't care, and won't believe it anyway (we'll just think that the people who said we aren't competitive don't know what they're talking about). So they put the cover-story worthy information, downgraded to nothing more than a blurb, on page A46.
My step-father hit the nail on the head when he called the United States, in its present form, "a lumbering giant". Who is number one in the World Economic Forum's 2006 global competitiveness ranking? Switzerland. Followed by Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Singapore. In 2005, the United States was on top. One year later, and we're dropped to number six.
The WEF decided that our huge spending on the war and "homeland secutiry" added to the GOP's plans for continued tax cuts, mounted on top of the rising and long-term economic strain of sky-rocketing health care costs and pensions that will ultimately be covered by tax payers is... well... driving our future economy into a gigantic Texas-shaped tar-pit. I'm sure that our increasing dependance on decreasing oil supplies didn't help us either.
They didn't need a whole forum to decide that one. They could have just sent one guy (or girl!) to Long Island and asked me, and I could have told them. But they love to have their meetings and their pitchers of water in from of them while they discuss things like this. So we let them.
It's amazing what a great education you can get just by listening, reading, and having some logic in your brain.
The first is entitled, "North Korea Rejects Nuclear Talks". If there is a forceful international (not economic) threat facing our nation, North Korea must be in the top five, if not number one. Forget Iraq. North Korea not only actually (not fictionally, as was the case with Iraq), but actually has WMDs. And they have the gall to use them. According to the article, North Korea says the United States wants to rule the world. I won't take sides, but I must agree with their opinion that we have an unspoken desire for at least below-the-surface world domination. If the American media would report on such important things a little more often, maybe we could all formulate a better opinion as to how important these talks are to our future.
The Second is: "U.S. Falls In Global Competitiveness Ranking". Apparently, we don't want anybody to realize that we are, in fact, becoming less educated, less innovative, and as a nation we are rapidly embracing an attitude of not worrying about the future. Either that, or the media knows Americans don't care, and won't believe it anyway (we'll just think that the people who said we aren't competitive don't know what they're talking about). So they put the cover-story worthy information, downgraded to nothing more than a blurb, on page A46.
My step-father hit the nail on the head when he called the United States, in its present form, "a lumbering giant". Who is number one in the World Economic Forum's 2006 global competitiveness ranking? Switzerland. Followed by Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Singapore. In 2005, the United States was on top. One year later, and we're dropped to number six.
The WEF decided that our huge spending on the war and "homeland secutiry" added to the GOP's plans for continued tax cuts, mounted on top of the rising and long-term economic strain of sky-rocketing health care costs and pensions that will ultimately be covered by tax payers is... well... driving our future economy into a gigantic Texas-shaped tar-pit. I'm sure that our increasing dependance on decreasing oil supplies didn't help us either.
They didn't need a whole forum to decide that one. They could have just sent one guy (or girl!) to Long Island and asked me, and I could have told them. But they love to have their meetings and their pitchers of water in from of them while they discuss things like this. So we let them.
It's amazing what a great education you can get just by listening, reading, and having some logic in your brain.
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