seagullbeagle
07-24-2002, 06:41 PM
Something to think about - If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human rations remaining the same, it would look like this:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere
8 Africans
52 female
48 male
70 non-white
30 white
70 non-Christian
30 Christian
89 heterosexual
11 homosexual
6 people possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the U.S.
80 live in substandard housing
70 are unable to read
50 suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death
1 would be near birth
1 has a college education 1 owns a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
Phillip M. Harter, MD, FACEP, Stanford University, School
Clearly, Americans are members of a small advantaged minority in the world. If we woke this morning in tolerable health, we are more fortunate than the million who will perish this week.
If we have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, we are ahead of half a billion people in the world.
If we have food in the refrigerator, clothes on our back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, we are richer than three-fourths of humanity.
Because we Americans can worship God publicly without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, we are more fortunate than 3 billion people in the world.
Well, thank God for the American Dream! Still, we are not a shining example to the world. Today the United States leads the developed world in divorce, single-parent families, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, child poverty, incarceration and executions, as well as drug abuse and out-of-wedlock births.
We deny health care to a larger percentage of our citizens than any other developed nation. Although we spend more on the education of our children than any nations except Austria and Switzerland, by the time they graduate from high school, their math and science skills are worse than in other developed nations.
Today in America, our institutions - education, health care, affordable housing, secure employment, marriage and family among them - are in free-fall. We have shut the doors of our mental health facilities, schools for orphans, settlement houses and institutions for troubled youth and cut back on public housing.
Is it any wonder that the poor, the homeless, the mentally ill and the alienated roam our streets? The only public institution enjoying healthy growth in America is prison construction.
David Yount
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"For those who fought for our rights, and for those that gave their lives.And for the families who's loved ones died.Its Their honor for which we still fight." HATEBREED
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere
8 Africans
52 female
48 male
70 non-white
30 white
70 non-Christian
30 Christian
89 heterosexual
11 homosexual
6 people possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the U.S.
80 live in substandard housing
70 are unable to read
50 suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death
1 would be near birth
1 has a college education 1 owns a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
Phillip M. Harter, MD, FACEP, Stanford University, School
Clearly, Americans are members of a small advantaged minority in the world. If we woke this morning in tolerable health, we are more fortunate than the million who will perish this week.
If we have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, we are ahead of half a billion people in the world.
If we have food in the refrigerator, clothes on our back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, we are richer than three-fourths of humanity.
Because we Americans can worship God publicly without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, we are more fortunate than 3 billion people in the world.
Well, thank God for the American Dream! Still, we are not a shining example to the world. Today the United States leads the developed world in divorce, single-parent families, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, child poverty, incarceration and executions, as well as drug abuse and out-of-wedlock births.
We deny health care to a larger percentage of our citizens than any other developed nation. Although we spend more on the education of our children than any nations except Austria and Switzerland, by the time they graduate from high school, their math and science skills are worse than in other developed nations.
Today in America, our institutions - education, health care, affordable housing, secure employment, marriage and family among them - are in free-fall. We have shut the doors of our mental health facilities, schools for orphans, settlement houses and institutions for troubled youth and cut back on public housing.
Is it any wonder that the poor, the homeless, the mentally ill and the alienated roam our streets? The only public institution enjoying healthy growth in America is prison construction.
David Yount
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"For those who fought for our rights, and for those that gave their lives.And for the families who's loved ones died.Its Their honor for which we still fight." HATEBREED