Lies, damned lies and statistics: American kids are the dumbest on earth

In general, kids from wealthy families perform well in school - better, in fact, than almost anywhere else in the world - but poor students rarely succeed.

In less politically correct words: kids from decent middle-class American families outperform kids everywhere in the world. It's the under-achieving black and white trash on welfare who drag our statistics down.

It's the same with the murder rate. Ghetto blacks killing ghetto blacks makes our murder rate high. Ditto with all the other statistics. Middle-class Americans are the most civilized people in the world. And anyone can become middle-class in America unlike anywhere else in the world.

As the Silky Pony says: there are two Americas. There are the Americans who work hard and pay taxes and then there are the bums who pay no taxes and suck off the government tit.

Socialism/welfarism has not solved any problems but it has created a huge one. We're stuck with a bunch of bums who would have died of starvation generations ago in a world without "from each according to his ability; to each according to his need" Marxist bullshit.

I'm an unapologetic Spencerian. Good old-fashioned Christian charity would have helped those who were willing to help themselves.