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Posted: 10 Mar 2014 05:31 PM PDT
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Is America the greatest nation on the planet? Before you answer that question, you might want to check out the statistics that I have shared in this article first. The reality is that the United States is in a deep state of decline, and it is getting harder to deny that fact with each passing day. Mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually and financially we are a train wreck. Many that are “patriotic” attempt to put a happy face on our growing problems, but the truly patriotic thing to do is to admit just how bad things have gotten so that we can start finding solutions. If you truly love this country, then you should know that this nation needs a huge wake up call. We have abandoned the values and the principles that early Americans held so dear, and as a result our society is a giant mess. The following are 55 things about America that you may not know…
#1 We are supposed to have a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”, but only
25 percent of all Americans know how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years), and only
20 percent of all Americans know how many U.S. senators there are.
#2 Americans spend more on health care per capita than anyone else in the world by far, and yet we only
rank 35th in life expectancy.
#3 Only
one state in the entire country has an obesity rate of under 20 percent.
11 states have an obesity rate of over 30 percent.
#4 Of all the major industrialized nations, America is
the most obese. Mexico is #2.
#5 Back in 1962,
only 13 percent of all Americans were obese, but it is being projected that
42 percent of all Americans could be obese by the year 2030.
#6 According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
31 percent of all food in the United States gets wasted. In case you were wondering, that amounts to approximately 133 billion pounds of food a year.
#9 According to a
Newsweek survey taken a few years ago, 29 percent of all Americans could not even name the vice president.
#11 60 percent of Americans report feeling “angry or irritable”. Two years ago that number was at 50 percent.
#12 36 percent of Americans admit that they have yelled at a customer service agent during the past year.
#13 Only
30 percent of all Americans can tell you in what year the 9/11 attacks happened.
#15 Right now,
29 percent of all Americans under the age of 35 are living with their parents.
#17 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly
70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.
#20 Children in the United States are
three times more likely to be prescribed antidepressants than children in Europe are.
#23 According to the federal government, the number of heroin addicts in the United States
has more than doubled since 2002.
#24 It is hard to believe, but
56 percent of all Americans now have “subprime credit”.
#29 In 2008, 53 percent of all Americans considered themselves to be “middle class”. In 2014, only
44 percent of all Americans consider themselves to be “middle class”.
#30 70 percent of Americans do not “feel engaged or inspired at their jobs”.
#31 40 percent of all workers in the United States actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968 after you account for inflation.
#33 The marriage rate in the United States has fallen to an all-time low. Right now it is sitting at a yearly rate of
6.8 marriages per 1000 people.
#34 In the United States today,
more than half of all couples “move in together” before they get married.
#35 America has the highest
divorce rate in the world by a good margin.
#37 100 years ago, 4.52 were living in the average U.S. household, but now the average U.S. household only consists of
2.59 people.
#38 According to the Pew Research Center, only
51 percent of all American adults are currently married. Back in 1960,
72 percent of all adults in the United States were married.
#41 In 1970, the average woman had her first child when she was
21.4 years old. Now the average woman has her first child when she is
25.6 years old.
#43 Approximately
one out of every four teen girls in the United States has at least one sexually transmitted disease.
#45 According to the latest figures released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, there are
20 million new sexually-transmitted infections in the United States every single year, and Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age range account for
approximately 50 percent of those new sexually-transmitted infections.
#49 If you choose to be a “Constitutionalist” in America today, you may get labeled as
a potential terrorist by the U.S. government.
#50 America has the largest national debt in the history of the world. Back in 1980, the U.S. national debt was
less than one trillion dollars. Today, it is over 17 trillion dollars.
#51 According to the Congressional Budget Office, interest payments on the national debt
will nearly quadruple over the next ten years.
#52 Americans spend more money
on elections than anyone else does in the world by a very wide margin.
#53 65 percent of Americans are dissatisfied “with the U.S. system of government and its effectiveness”. That is the highest level of dissatisfaction that Gallup has ever recorded.
#54 Only
8 percent of Americans believe that Congress is doing a “good” or “excellent” job.
#55 70 percent of Americans do not have confidence that the federal government will “make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014.”
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