Comments on: Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson on Congress’ Lack of Vision, Science, Education (+ Top Politics Stories)

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:31:00 +0000

Well that is the Global (Political) Elite’s plan…they already state that overpopulation is unsustainable.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:28:00 +0000

Interesting that this Neil Degrasse Tyson video is shown dated August 11, 2011 and this same video is being shown on YouTube dated March 7, 2012. Two separate events?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:18:00 +0000

Well put

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:18:00 +0000

So true.

By: Durt Bagg

Durt Bagg — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:36:00 +0000

What is SO sad is the wasted potential in America if it wasn’t for greed. Guess the goal is to be the richest one in the cemetery.

By: Who Are Our Politicians? | Planetsave

Who Are Our Politicians? | Planetsave — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:29:37 +0000

[…] in general (in the U.S. at least, but many other countries as well). I think it was triggered by this video of astrophysicist Dr. Neil Degrasse and the comments a few people left on that […]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:33:00 +0000

And i think Degrasse’s point that lawyers are trained to argue, that’s the essence of their job, is important. plus, they aren’t really trained to have an moral concern for what the underlying truth is behind their arguments

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:16:00 +0000

The point is that 99% give the 1% a bad name. We have term limits under the premise that they are likely guilty of corruption after being in the job too long. Some are just fine. We assume more are bad than good so we make that policy. Lawyers are mostly bad and few dispute this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:26:00 +0000

Some attorneys are brilliant and well-informed outside the area of law.

Just because some people elect some attorneys who are stupid and ideologically-blinded does not mean that all are. Our problems lie more with voters than with elected officials. We need to step up our educational efforts.

By: catman 306

catman 306 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:36:00 +0000

I once purposed an amendment to the Constitution
“No one who as ever passed a state bar exam in any of the states can hold elected public office in the US.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:04:00 +0000

i support that!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:28:00 +0000

totally agree

By: sola

sola — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:16:00 +0000

Well, he is completely right.

However, this problem plagues not only the US but the whole Western block, including the EU and other democracies.

It is extremely hard to make progress on the RIGHT THINGS when decision makers are completely incapable of understanding it.

I am not sure if democracy in its western form is beyond repair but it is pretty clear that it is not capable of handling large, not-so-visible-from-the-start problems.

The US political elite will start working on solutions of Global Warming when it will be WAY too late, when people and the economy start dying at such rates that it becomes politically uncomfortable.