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Just something I found on the net and thought we would enjoy reading it. 
A country where CEOs are paid 500 times their workers, and 600 times a high school teacher is not a model of progress or enlightenment.
Where 1 in 75 males is in prison.
A country where 750 thousand people are arrested every year for possession of marijuana, and one million people are in prison for victim-less crime, is still in the dark ages.
A country where health insurance is too expensive for more than half the population, and where hospital errors cause a million serious casualties a year, is not an advanced country.
A country where 2/3 of death row inmates in Illinois whose guilt or innocence could be proved by DNA testing turned out to be innocent. Where men who proclaimed their innocence are more likely to end up on death row than those who 'confessed' and 'showed remorse', and where a state establishment can refuse to review condemnations even when exculpatory evidence is on record.
Europeans still enjoy free health care for all, cradle to grave; free education through university level; comparatively generous retirement for their elderly; an average of five weeks paid annual vacation, more sick leave, parental leave, and a shorter work week with comparable wages for their workers (French workers, with their 35-hour work week, work nearly a full day less per week than American workers, who now work on average 42 hours per week). Social spending in Europe runs some 50 percent above that in the United States. Environmental, food safety and labor laws are the envy of activists in the U.S.
A country where CEOs are paid 500 times their workers, and 600 times a high school teacher is not a model of progress or enlightenment.
Where 1 in 75 males is in prison.
A country where 750 thousand people are arrested every year for possession of marijuana, and one million people are in prison for victim-less crime, is still in the dark ages.
A country where health insurance is too expensive for more than half the population, and where hospital errors cause a million serious casualties a year, is not an advanced country.
A country where 2/3 of death row inmates in Illinois whose guilt or innocence could be proved by DNA testing turned out to be innocent. Where men who proclaimed their innocence are more likely to end up on death row than those who 'confessed' and 'showed remorse', and where a state establishment can refuse to review condemnations even when exculpatory evidence is on record.
Europeans still enjoy free health care for all, cradle to grave; free education through university level; comparatively generous retirement for their elderly; an average of five weeks paid annual vacation, more sick leave, parental leave, and a shorter work week with comparable wages for their workers (French workers, with their 35-hour work week, work nearly a full day less per week than American workers, who now work on average 42 hours per week). Social spending in Europe runs some 50 percent above that in the United States. Environmental, food safety and labor laws are the envy of activists in the U.S.
