Comments on: Does America Need More Neighborhood Pubs?

By: Bakari

Bakari — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:25:27 +0000

Social connections and a rich social environment has been a key in keeping me happy and satisfied with my life…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:38:01 +0000

Sounds like an interesting study. I’d like to read it myself, where can I find it?

By: f hay

f hay — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:08:40 +0000

Just to clarify a point - everyone in Britain does NOT have a company and state pension! It depends on personal circunstances. Due to changes few people have good compnay pension schemes and government pensions rely on you National Insurance contributions. For women who have career breaks to raise their children and for people caring for relatives this often mens little or no pension. Please don’t think all pensioners in Britain are better off!

By: Jake Kirchhoff

Jake Kirchhoff — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:10:07 +0000

Reading this being an a college student in America really strikes a cord in my heart because it is exactly what I’ve been thinking and it makes it hard to take an exam about some useless class when I know there are much greater needs in America. Its a system in which we have laws that are taking money from the working pockets when McDonalds and other large cooporations are allowed to sell food that is clearly a helping factor contributing to obesity and heart disease which causes healthcare system to rise to unaffordable rates and continues down the line. A huge step in the bettering of America is definatley out diet and there should be some responsibllity and legal issues to things that are clearly harming America even thought it may not have been known at the point in time when they opened. I’m representing a new change in America and its needs if anyone is interested contact me a 22ndCenturyNutrition to fight the cause.

By: Chris Batto

Chris Batto — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:44:03 +0000

The reasons are clear to everyone who lives outside America.
Your people are poorly educated and oppressed by the industrial military complex and corporate power stranglehold that is radically unbalanced with the human rights of your own citizens. People that are in prison and have no opportunity for unbiased education…have no chance to succeed.

This brings into question the value of leadership education when we see it coming to us from an American Perspective. What little basic education that is provided to your people is at best weak, insular indoctrination. What do they know of the world. Thinking themselves better and better off. The Russians were smart enough to know they were being lied to!

Your people face an endless onslaught of corporate propaganda and flag waving that would make Hitler envious. He managed to align the goals of his people toward the task of conquering nations and exterminating races. Your corporate rulership has used its brainwashing to kill its own people. “Proud” to create a nation of fat, diabetic idiots eating sugar coated shit and believing they are sitting on top of the world.

The rest of the world has a hard time finding any logic, reason, compassion, or vision in American leadership. America sits on top of a precipice…. Leadership….who are you fooling!

By: Donald Hoover

Donald Hoover — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:00:52 +0000

Darwin was wrong. It is Not the survival of the fitest.

It is the survival of those who have learned to live with others.

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By: Andrew Gilmartin

Andrew Gilmartin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:56:07 +0000

Modern Americans display success. Financial success brings on one kind of display — the house, the car, the better cut of the suit, etc. Pumping iron brings on another. And WalMart (or perhaps it is China) enables even the unsuccessful their display. As long as we parade our success we doom our children to perpetuate the situation.