Make America "GREAT"? We couldn't even hit "average"

POSTED BY: Wishimay
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WISHIMAY

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 10:32 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/american-exceptionalism_n_417
0683.html

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-11/55-things-about-america-you-m
ay-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.

#7 America has the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in the entire world by a wide margin.

#8 In America, we even put 81-year-old women in prison for feeding the birds.

#9 According to a Newsweek survey taken a few years ago, 29 percent of all Americans could not even name the vice president.

#10 Americans spend more time sitting in traffic than anyone else in the world.

#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.

#14 There are more “deaths by reptile” in America than anywhere else in the world.

#15 Right now, 29 percent of all Americans under the age of 35 are living with their parents.

#16 Average SAT scores have been falling for years, and the level of education that our kids are receiving in most of our public schools is a total joke.

#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.

#18 Americans spend more than 280 billion dollars on prescription drugs each year.

#19 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors in the United States write more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants each year.

#20 Children in the United States are three times more likely to be prescribed antidepressants than children in Europe are.

#21 In the United States today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined.

#22 America has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet.

#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”.

#25 America exports more weapons to other countries than anyone else in the world.

#26 The United States has the most complicated tax system on the entire planet.

#27 Corruption is rampant throughout our society. In fact, America leads the world in money given to fake charities.

#28 America leads the world in soft drink consumption by a wide margin. Today, the average American drinks more than 600 sodas a year.

#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

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 10:45 AM

WE are diseased, fat, over medicated, paranoid, armed, substance abusing, poisoned by our own food supply, illiterate, illegitimate, mental, overworked TWATS.

Now, scream about personal responsibility when it's CRYSTAL CLEAR NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE HELL THAT MEANS.

Gahhhh.

OONJERAH

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 2:02 PM

Honesty & Commitment.

I turn around, look in the mirror, and take my own inventory Honestly.
Own the good & own the bad.

Don't stop to wallow in guilt & self-pity. Get to work becoming someone
I could like and respect.

It's good to join a group that is about this.

We can all work honestly on ourselves.

There are various philosophies about this.

{ The above apparently does not apply to an around-the-bend Sociopath. }

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

The meaning of life is outlined above.

See Richard Bach's Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

JO753

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3:09 PM

Look to Switzerland. Thats suppoz to be the best counrty in the world.

Lets copy them.

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http://www.7532020.com

6STRINGJOKER

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Honesty & Commitment.

I turn around, look in the mirror, and take my own inventory Honestly.
Own the good & own the bad.

Don't stop to wallow in guilt & self-pity. Get to work becoming someone
I could like and respect.

It's good to join a group that is about this.

We can all work honestly on ourselves.

There are various philosophies about this.

{ The above apparently does not apply to an around-the-bend Sociopath. }

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

The meaning of life is outlined above.

See Richard Bach's Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

I was going to leave a little snark here, but then I read your post O.

I agree 100% with your message, and there's really nothing more to say.

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3:37 PM

Made it to the moon and back decades before anyone else, so yeah... Great applies.

6STRINGJOKER

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 7:04 PM

The blame for what?

By saying "We Suck" as a spectator at a sporting event, you were saying "We", but you were insulting them. You weren't part of the team. You weren't playing or coaching. All you were really doing was saying "You Suck".

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 11:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:

Made it to the moon and back decades before anyone else, so yeah... Great applies.

That was almost 60 yrs ago, bucko... How long can you ride the coattails of something your generation wasn't even involved in??? And do you really believe that one thing can invalidate all the other horrible things??

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 11:46 PM

Also, I'd just like to say our medical hell has continued...

Hubby was finally stable with his psych meds, so we went ahead and had him put on a BP med. A couple weeks later he started to cough and by a month later he was wretching up a lung 10-15 times a DAY. We went through 3 F'N ROUNDS of anti-biotics and got sent to a specialist who said, quote "Well, you aren't my typical patient so I don't really know what to do with you."

What you don't see males? Males with Neuro disorders??? WHAT???

By the time we saw the specialist, he had been choking even in his sleep for two and a half months. When we got home from the specialist I kept thinking about the nurse when she specifically asked if he was on BP meds, and went home and looked up Lisinopril and TAH-DAH it causes chronic severe dry cough. Apparently it is SOOOO COMMON it is the first thing they teach them about Ace inhibitors, but this dumbass missed it FOUR TIMES, and even the specialist DIDN'T HAVE A FUCKING CLUE.

*I* took him off the meds and two weeks later he's almost ok, but the kicker is when we went back to the damn doc (just because we needed a refill for his thyroid med) the asshole finally figured out how incredibly negligent he had been and told US to find another doc, AND refused to fill the thyroid med!!! Now we've got two weeks to find another and get his meds.

WE SUCK, WE SUCK, WE SUCK!!!!!

FUCK USA, FUCK USA!!!!

DREAMTROVE

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 1:02 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:

Made it to the moon and back decades before anyone else, so yeah... Great applies.

I spy a Rap who is not necroposted.

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