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Is the United States "number
one"? Many Americans take deep
pride in their nation and the truth is
that the U.S. has a lot going for
it. The United States has the
largest economy in the world. The
United States also has the most powerful
military on the entire planet. The
United States has produced most of the
greatest movies that the world has ever
seen.
But the United States is also
number one in a lot of categories that
are not go great. If we ever want
to turn this country around, we need to
be very honest with ourselves. We
need to take a long, hard look in the
mirror and realize that it is not a good
thing that we are number one in divorce,
drug addiction, debt, obesity, car
thefts, murders and total crimes.
We have become a slothful, greedy,
decadent nation that is exhibiting signs
of advanced decay. Until we
understand just how bad our problems
really are, we won't be able to come up
with the solutions that we
need.
A lot of people that write
articles like this have a deep hatred for
America. But that is not the case
with me. I love the United
States. I love the American
people. America is like an aging,
bloated rock star that has become
addicted to a dozen different
drugs. America is a shadow of its
former self and it desperately needs to
wake up before it plunges into
oblivion.
If you do not believe that
America is in bad shape, just read the
list below. The following are 20
not so good categories that the United
States leads the world in....
#1 The United
States has
the highest incarceration rate
in the world and the
largest total prison population
on the entire globe.
#2 According
to
NationMaster.com, the
United States has the highest percentage
of obese people in the world.
#3 The United
States has
the highest divorce rate on the
globe by a wide margin.
#4 The United
States is tied with the U.K. for
the most hours of television watched per
person each week.
#5 The United
States has
the highest rate of illegal drug use
on the entire planet.
#6 There are
more car thefts in the United States each
year than anywhere else in the
world
by far.
#7 There are
more
reported rapes in the
United States each year than anywhere
else in the world.
#8 There are
more
reported murders in the
United States each year than anywhere
else in the world.
#9 There are
more
total crimes in the
United States each year than anywhere
else in the world.
#10 The United
States also has
more police officers than
anywhere else in the world.
#11 The United
States spends much more on health
care
as a percentage of GDP than
any other nation on the face of the
earth.
#12 The United
States has
more people on pharmaceutical drugs
than any other country on the
planet.
#13 The
percentage of women taking
antidepressants in America
is higher than in
any other country in the world.
#14 Americans
have
more student loan debt than
anyone else in the world.
#15 More
pornography is created in the United
States than anywhere else on the entire
globe.
89 percent is made
in the U.S.A. and only 11 percent is made
in the rest of the world.
#16 The United
States has the largest trade deficit in
the world every single year.
Between December 2000 and December 2010,
the United States ran a total trade
deficit of 6.1 trillion
dollars with the rest of the
world, and the U.S. has had a negative
trade balance every single year
since 1976.
#17 The United
States spends
7 times more on the
military than any other nation on the
planet does. In fact, U.S. military
spending is greater than the military
spending of China, Russia, Japan, India,
and the rest of NATO
combined.
#18 The United
States has
far more foreign military bases
than any other country
does.
#19 The United
States has
the most complicated tax system
in the entire world.
#20 The U.S.
has accumulated the biggest
national debt that
the world has ever seen and it is rapidly
getting worse. Right now, U.S.
government debt is expanding at a rate
of
$40,000 per second.
So are you convinced that the
US in trouble yet?
The truth is that America has
changed. Most of us don't even say
hello to our neighbors anymore.
In fact, we have become so
self-involved that many of us don't even
notice when someone around us
dies.
Just consider the following two
examples.
*USA
Today recently reported on the
body of a dead woman that was not found
for approximately a year even though a
whole bunch of people walked right past
the car where she died....
Bank contractors,
inspectors and even the new owner of a
foreclosed home walked past the silver
Chevy Nova in the garage numerous times
before discovering the former homeowner
— dead on the front seat.
*In an even more shocking
case,
the CBS affiliate in Boston
recently reported that a dead
woman was lying on the bottom of a public
pool for two days while large numbers of
people swam right over her. How in
the world could something like this
possibly happen?....
It’s a mystery as murky as
the water at Veteran’s Memorial
swimming pool in Fall River public
pool: how did swimmers, lifeguards, or
inspectors not notice a woman’s body at
the bottom of the pool for a few
days?
Marie Joseph, 36, was last
seen at the pool on Sunday. The pool
was open to the public Monday and
Tuesday with six lifeguards on duty,
and no one noticed the body under 12
feet of water.
Most Americans have become so
self-involved that they barely even
notice anyone other than their family and
close friends.
The love of most Americans is
growing cold and when
the collapse of the U.S. economy
happens it is just going to
make things worse. Instead of
working as a community, most Americans
will only be concerned with making sure
that their own needs are taken care
of.
The United States was once the
most blessed nation on the face of the
earth, but now we are literally falling
to pieces.
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