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You'd be surprised.
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
OpinionJournal - Outside the Box
Well, it would appear things really aren't as bleak as the liberals would have us believe.
"Optimists have turned out to be fully correct; pessimists alarmingly misguided:" -- seriously!
Here are a few highlights for those of you too lazy to read.
Life expectancy in America has increased ...
Incomes are up. Inflation-adjusted per capita income has doubled since 1960. And we're working less for more money. -- I can attest to that!
Poverty is down. Twenty-two percent of Americans lived in poverty in 1960; by 2001 that rate had declined to 11.7%
We are not running out of any resource--oil, natural gas, copper, aluminum or anything else. Pollution is down; today's new cars emit "less than 2% as much pollution per mile as a car of 1970."
The goods available to us are overwhelming, and getting cheaper all the time
All this progress is not just in America or wealthy nations. Middle-class men and women in Europe and America live better than 99.4% of humans who have ever lived
"Rather than nasty, brutish and short, 21st century life is good, comfortable and long, and getting better all the time.
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Give it a read you won't be disappointed and it might keep you from pulling that trigger tonight.
Well, it would appear things really aren't as bleak as the liberals would have us believe.
"Optimists have turned out to be fully correct; pessimists alarmingly misguided:" -- seriously!
Here are a few highlights for those of you too lazy to read.
Life expectancy in America has increased ...
Incomes are up. Inflation-adjusted per capita income has doubled since 1960. And we're working less for more money. -- I can attest to that!
Poverty is down. Twenty-two percent of Americans lived in poverty in 1960; by 2001 that rate had declined to 11.7%
We are not running out of any resource--oil, natural gas, copper, aluminum or anything else. Pollution is down; today's new cars emit "less than 2% as much pollution per mile as a car of 1970."
The goods available to us are overwhelming, and getting cheaper all the time
All this progress is not just in America or wealthy nations. Middle-class men and women in Europe and America live better than 99.4% of humans who have ever lived
"Rather than nasty, brutish and short, 21st century life is good, comfortable and long, and getting better all the time.
"
Give it a read you won't be disappointed and it might keep you from pulling that trigger tonight.
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