Ventura musta read Emanuel Todd's book

[Igor Loving]

Ventura says nothing about how to change this situation?

Two things he did not mention...
The percentage of people in the US who do not believe in evolution.
The ranking of the US of people in prison (I think we rank number one, ahead

of China,
Russia, Iran, Cuba, and all those other "bad" countries).

Now, I need to comment on two of Ventura's items...

* "U.S. childhood poverty now ranks 22nd, or second to last, among the
developed nations. Only Mexico scores lower" (The European Dream, p.81).
Been to Mexico lately? Does it look "developed" to you? Yet it's the only
"developed" country to score lower in childhood poverty.

Of course, the main reason we have so much childhood poverty is
due to the massive influx of Mexicans, trying to escape even worse
conditions in Mexico.

* Bush: 62,027,582 votes. Kerry: 59,026,003 votes. Number of eligible voters
who didn't show up: 79,279,000 (NYT, Dec. 26, 2004). That's more than a
third. Way more. If more than a third of Iraqis don't show for their
election, no country in the world will think that election legitimate.

So true. Just think what would happen if those 79 million voters all voted
for a third party candidate!
Where do we rank among democracies in voter turnout? Last?

And as for Bush's inauguration speech on opposing tyranny and lack of
liberty in the world...
I wonder if he's going to start at Guantanamo?? Pretty hypocritical...