Umm. . .

Maybe Gandhi Was On To Something...

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”

By the reactions of the GOP’s right-wing pundits, we’re at the “fight you” stage now?
Or at least they, the sycophantic propaganda-spewing pundits of the right, are.


Well - That just about ‘says it all’ about the past eight years, and what Obama’s administration is trying to correct...  Even as the-very-few’s paid collaborative sycophants, the GOP’s “pundits,” that are still allowed to spew their hate-filled propaganda of. . .  “It’s all the liberals’ fault!”

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A “Below The Fold” bonus article...
That exposes the ‘effects’ of the above chart’s facts.

U! S! A! We’re Number .... 15?
by Dalton Conley, The Nation

In the ticker tape of economic bad news, there is perhaps one dire statistic that has not gotten as much attention as it deserves: the American Human Development Index (HDI), released for the first time last year.  The American HDI is especially troubling because it puts all this economic gloom and doom in stark human terms.  And the results are somewhat surprising: in good times as well as bad, in terms of aggregate health, education, purchasing power, security and general well-being, we have been in decline.