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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
Improvements in anything thru science is a good thing. It is time for wealthy nations like China to step up and invest in the future of the earth. Some day with research and working for the same goals it will no longer be them and us. I hope for that no matter what language it comes in.
Yea China.
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I m not sure what this post means, nor do I think the full understanding of how this country is falling further and further behind the world has sunk in.
This from my earlier post in this thread...
"A particularly alarming report on working-age adults was published earlier this month by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a coalition of mainly developed nations. The research focused on people ages 16 to 65 in 24 countries. It dealt with three crucial areas: literacy — the ability to understand and respond to written material; numeracy — the ability to use numerical and mathematical concepts; and problem solving — the ability to interpret and analyze information using computers. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/op...ng-behind.html
China is taking us over and quickly. We borrow money from them in order to pay them for manufacturing good for us. We now root for them to take away any tech advantage we ever had by scrapping NASA and just not caring anymore. We continue to go even deeper in debt and seem to have completely lost sight of the big picture. I keep referring to our society as one that feels it should "get a trophy for just showing up"....unrealistic for sure. We argue over things and forget not only are our children falling behind but as the above report shows, the adults are doing the same and meanwhile we entertain ourselves with such trite "problems".