Mika From Sweden, joined Jul 2000, 2788 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 1224 times:
Like buying books for the $39 million that Bush cut on the federal spending on libraries, litteracy numbers for the US really dont look good. Out of 191 million adults in the US, 44 million cannot read a newspaper or fill out a job application. Another 50 million more cannot read or comprehend above the eighth grade level.
Maybe the money could have been put there instead? Who knows.
L410Turbolet From Czech Republic, joined May 2004, 5395 posts, RR: 19 Reply 3, posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1166 times:
Out of 191 million adults in the US, 44 million cannot read a newspaper or fill out a job application. Another 50 million more cannot read or comprehend above the eighth grade level.
With the president himself serving as prime example...
AAplatnumflier From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 1132 times:
George W. Bush may be smart but he isnt a public speaker and that is for sure....also I think these numbers are inaccurate...as people here watch the news and only here the bad things...actually most of them are happy that we are there
StowAway From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 640 posts, RR: 5 Reply 6, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1098 times:
>>Out of 191 million adults in the US, 44 million cannot read a newspaper or fill out a job application. Another 50 million more cannot read or comprehend above the eighth grade level.
With the president himself serving as prime example...<<
DL021 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 11433 posts, RR: 81 Reply 7, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1091 times:
Guys...don't believe everything you read about how stupid we are over here. Please remember that much is written about the US with a view to making us fit into whatever particular mold the writer and editor has decided we should occupy.
B757300 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 4114 posts, RR: 25 Reply 8, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 1082 times:
Yeah and just 2 months ago the polls told us that John Kerry was going to win the election. If 56% of the population thought the war was a mistake than Bush should have gone down in flames as bad as Carter and Mondale.
This is nothing but a poll taken (with the results already determined before the poll was even completed) in order to give the Washington Compost something to write about and bash the President over.
JetService From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4798 posts, RR: 13 Reply 10, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 1073 times:
Out of 191 million adults in the US, 44 million cannot read a newspaper or fill out a job application. Another 50 million more cannot read or comprehend above the eighth grade level.
Where in the hell did you get those numbers? What is the source the article pulled this from? According to the U.N. the USA (and Canada FYI) has an illiteracy rate of around 1%.
Vafi88 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 3116 posts, RR: 18 Reply 13, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 1055 times:
Saw it on CNN dude - try finding it, but even if that 12% was cut in half, that would mean only 38% are for it - and yet the indifference percentiles are usually at about 10% anyway.
Couldn't find it.
I'd like to elect a president that has a Higher IQ than a retarted ant.
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