News: Manufacturing Failure
Posted on Friday, February 16 @ 12:54:25 PST by John Evans |
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By Christopher Chantrill
It was twenty years ago that we learned of "A Nation at Risk." The problems in our education system were imperiling our national future, wrote the National Commission on Excellence in Education. Since then nothing much has happened. If anything, the education system is worse. Yet the US economy has kept its place as the most productive in the world.
It's the same with government welfare. Ten years ago the nation drastically reformed welfare, setting strict time limits for welfare recipients. Liberals fainted all over the place in Victorian hysterics, yet the welfare caseload dropped by 50 percent and the social fabric was demonstrably strengthened.
Then there is health care. We spend about 50 percent more on "bio-medicine" than our European friends, yet life expectancy in the United States is, if anything, lower.
What is going on?
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