Attibution of evolutionary cause is dubious at best. Since evolutionary biology is almost alway based on preexisting correlation rather than comtrolled experimentation, it is not possible to say where the resistance plasmids arose.
Vancomycin resistant S. aureus has been isolated in areas outside the US where it has been ascribed http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol3no3/mcdonald.htm to the use of vancomycin analogues and homologue in the poultry industry
Lets just say that I didn't get it in a country where pre law graduates can be amazed that someone from Australia speaks English. - True story.
The average level of education in the US appeared to me while I was there to be about that of Mexico, but the majority I met in Mexico had left school at 15!
But is it the best one we've-- as a species, I mean-- come up with so far? Yes, definitely. Name one government that has worked as long or as well as the United States
Worked for whom? Not the African or native Americans or the poor or the recent migrants - or for that matter the rest of the world who have to put up with the crap that the US government foists on us.
I never cease to be amazed at the self-congratulatory arrogance of the common American citizen. A single fool who can veto an entire elected body is rediculous (When Washington et al. were deciding on a governmental model, they only had monarchies to examine - so it's not surprising that they pick a system like this, but to stick with such an obviously flawed system for such a long time just harks of inertia, laziness and ineptitude).
You have a two party system because it's modeled on Westminster.
The Wesminster system has nothing to do with two parties - it is a system in which there is a separation of the executive, legislative and judicial arms of the government. The American system is very clearly not modelled on this given the degree of meddling that the government does in selecting police and the judiciary.
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Attibution of evolutionary cause is dubious at best. Since evolutionary biology is almost alway based on preexisting correlation rather than comtrolled experimentation, it is not possible to say where the resistance plasmids arose.
Vancomycin resistant S. aureus has been isolated in areas outside the US where it has been ascribed http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol3no3/mcdonald.htwhere did you get your education?
Lets just say that I didn't get it in a country where pre law graduates can be amazed that someone from Australia speaks English. - True story.
The average level of education in the US appeared to me while I was there to be about that of Mexico, but the majority I met in Mexico had left school at 15!
But is it the best one we've-- as a species, I mean-- come up with so far? Yes, definitely. Name one government that has worked as long or as well as the United States
Worked for whom? Not the African or native Americans or the poor or the recent migrants - or for that matter the rest of the world who have to put up with the crap that the US government foists on us.
I never cease to be amazed at the self-congratulatory arrogance of the common American citizen. A single fool who can veto an entire elected body is rediculous (When Washington et al. were deciding on a governmental model, they only had monarchies to examine - so it's not surprising that they pick a system like this, but to stick with such an obviously flawed system for such a long time just harks of inertia, laziness and ineptitude).
You have a two party system because it's modeled on Westminster. The Wesminster system has nothing to do with two parties - it is a system in which there is a separation of the executive, legislative and judicial arms of the government. The American system is very clearly not modelled on this given the degree of meddling that the government does in selecting police and the judiciary.