#1 The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and the largest total prison population on the entire globe. Thanks to the "War on Drugs" one half of Americas prisoners are incarcerated for Marijuana use.
#2 According to NationMaster.com, the United States has the highest percentage of obese people in the world. Thanks to our fast food and zero healthy eating instructions.
#3 The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin. We just can't live up to that stylized TV and movie lifestyles.
#4 The United States is tied with the U.K. for the most hours of television watched per person each week. Reding iz fundermantial.
#5 The United States has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet. When people are told they can't, they will plus we can afford it.
#6 There are more car thefts in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world by far. A lot more cars to steal and unemployed people with nothing to do.
#7 There are more reported rapes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world. That's reported. Many country do not keep adequate records. Still no excuse for rape , anytime, anywhere, either sex.
#8 There are more reported murders in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world. Shot first and run.
#9 There are more total crimes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.It's a job these days.
#10 The United States also has more police officers than anywhere else in the world. We need to be kept in line for the wealthy.
#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. And we rank 37th in the world?
#12 The United States has more people on pharmaceutical drugs than any other country on the planet. A happy population is a docile population.
#13 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world. Stepford wives wanted.
#14 Americans have more student loan debt than anyone else in the world. You need a job to pay your loan.
#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. Go listen to ♪♫ California Girls ♫♪ by the Beachboys.
#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. This is where your job went.
#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. Lets see, we spend $4Trillion off the books for wars and now we are in debt for $4Trillion so logically the poor and middle class are being made to pay for Republican hostility.
#18 The United States has far more foreign military bases than any other country does. We leave a piece behind after every war. I project that in 100 years, we will have a military base in every country.
#19 The United States has the most complicated tax system in the entire world. Tax loop holes for the rich and for corporations. Every one including corporations would pay a simple 5% tax, we would have no deficit.
#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. It was not this way in the Clinton era.
Bush spent it.
Obama is blamed for it.
So are you convinced that we are in trouble yet?
Steve
