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America Isn't The Greatest Country Anymore
Topic Started: Nov 16 2012, 12:16 AM (323 Views)
Zechariah
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America Isn't The Greatest Country Anymore

By Lance Roberts

Via Lance Roberts of Street Talk Live - This weekend I had my first opportunity to watch "Newsroom," an HBO series, and I was struck by the opening sequence of the show as Jeff Daniels, aka Will McAvoy, discusses why America WAS the greatest country in the world - but no longer is. Here are the stats as he breaks them down:

The U.S. is:

7th in literacy
27th in math
22nd in science
49th in life expectancy
178th in infant mortality
3rd in median household income
4th in labor force
4th in exports
But here are some other stats where the U.S. ranks as well:

19th is State success
3rd in oil production
12th in prosperity
22nd in freedom of the press
2nd in child poverty
30th in nocturnal safety
3rd in "liking" the United Sates (behind Japan and Kenya)
11th in "happiness"
22nd in freedom from corruption
24th in "perceived" honesty
39th in income inequality
4th in employees "faking" illness
3rd in human development
10th in economic freedom
17th in credit "worthiness"
4th in global competitiveness
47th in infant survival
38th in trade freedom
8th in researchers
12th in thriving population
34th in the Children's index
61st in monetary freedom
and, most depressingly, 50th in erection length.
You get the idea. The rise of economic strength was built on the backs of hard working Americans who built stuff from skyscrapers to railroads. We farmed, we produced and we raised families. The pride of "built in America" was the flag that we waved.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33014.htm
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72MiMi
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America has been losing in many categories for years. The selfishness of the leaders has created a crater that will never close in fact it keeps growing bigger and bigger....with the craziness exhibited by racist imbeciles.
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72MiMi
Nov 16 2012, 07:17 PM
America has been losing in many categories for years. The selfishness of the leaders has created a crater that will never close in fact it keeps growing bigger and bigger....with the craziness exhibited by racist imbeciles.
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72MiMi
Nov 16 2012, 07:17 PM
America has been losing in many categories for years. The selfishness of the leaders has created a crater that will never close in fact it keeps growing bigger and bigger....with the craziness exhibited by racist imbeciles.
ARE THE "RACISTS ANY MORE CRAZIER THAN PAST DESPOTS LIKE IDI AMIN AND EMPEROR BOKASSA WHO WERE TRIBALISTS?
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But, even now, it is still one of the few places in the world where a person can rise above their circumstances. Go abroad and you can see how difficult this is in other places.
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UTB

Delta is ready when they are!

BYE!
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72MiMi
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Nov 17 2012, 01:58 PM
72MiMi
Nov 16 2012, 07:17 PM
America has been losing in many categories for years. The selfishness of the leaders has created a crater that will never close in fact it keeps growing bigger and bigger....with the craziness exhibited by racist imbeciles.
ARE THE "RACISTS ANY MORE CRAZIER THAN PAST DESPOTS LIKE IDI AMIN AND EMPEROR BOKASSA WHO WERE TRIBALISTS?
I'm not concerned with those idiots, I live in America that's where my concern is. And to answer your question yes they are crazier.
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kennyinbmore
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I'd still rather live here than anywhere else in the world :)
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n.W.o.
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In some places of Malaysia the poor have no shoes, walk everywhere, and live on rafts floating in the damn swampy water with no electricity or sewage. I've seen homeless in New Orleans living 20 times better than that.
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Nov 17 2012, 11:43 PM
In some places of Malaysia the poor have no shoes, walk everywhere, and live on rafts floating in the damn swampy water with no electricity or sewage. I've seen homeless in New Orleans living 20 times better than that.
Exactly.
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