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By Terry
America is not the greatest country in the world, hard to swallow huh? A glass of water may come in handy here. In an HBO series, The Newsroom, the main character, Will McAvoy, confirmed what we have long suspected. Here is a reply from him after an obviously ill informed student asked him to explain why America was the greatest country.
「There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we’re the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, No. 4 in labor force and No. 4 in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies...」
My first reaction to watching the clip was 『this guy can’t be right』, but a little research proved that the guy was in fact very correct. America’s greatness is a creation of the media which by the way is controlled by America and its allies. So I see it as my responsibility as a truth loving citizens of this Earth to expose this LIE that many have lived with for so long.
Here are few rankings that go further to buttress my point in my bid to debunk the lie of America’s greatness.
• The U.S. ranks 47th in press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders. So much for freedom of the press.
• The U.S. is ranked 10th in economic freedom, according to The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal.
• The U.S. is only the 11th happiest country in the world, according Columbia University's Earth Institute.
• There are 21 countries better than America in freedom from corruption, according to Heritage.org.
• The U.S. was ranked 24th in perceived honesty, according to Transparency.org.
• America is ranked 39th in income inequality according to the CIA World Factbook.
• The U.S. is only 47th in infant survival? That's true, according to the CIA World Factbook.
• Want to live a long life? Don't live in the U.S., which is 50th in life expectancy according to the CIA World Factbook.
• The U.S. GDP growth rate is ranked 169th out of 216 countries, according to the CIA World Factbook.
• GDP per capita is only 12th in the world, behind Qatar and Liechtenstein, says the CIA World Factbook.
• Unemployment percentage is worse than 102 of the 200 countries listed by the CIA World Factbook.
• America's budget deficit is ranked 192nd in debt relative to GDP, according to the CIA World Factbook.
• The growth rate of our industrial production is ranked 79th, according to the CIA World Factbook.
• The U.S. is ranked 192nd, dead last, in the net trade of goods and services, according to the CIA World Factbook.
• Our reserve of foreign exchange and gold is ranked 19th, according to the CIA World Factbook, right behind Indonesia.
• In terms of the percentage of women holding public office, the U.S. ranks 79th out of 147 countries, says the IPU.
Where America leads
All is not doom and gloom for those daydreamers who still believe that America is the greatest country.
Here are areas which America comes first:
• America has the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in the entire world by a good margin.
• There are more car thefts in the United States than anywhere else in the world by far.
• Of all the major industrialized nations, America is the most obese. Mexico is #2.
• Nobody watches more television per week (28 hours) than Americans do.
• The United States leads the world in credit card fraud.
• The United States has the highest divorce rate in the world by a good margin.
• The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the world by far.
• There are more school shootings in America than anywhere else in the world.
• The United States has the highest child abuse death rate in the world.
• The United States produces more pornography than any other nation in the world.
• The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.
• More people have been diagnosed with mental disorders in America than anywhere else on earth.
• The United States has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire globe.
• U.S. citizens spend more time in school than anyone else in the world. So why are so many of them dumb as a rock?
• Nobody in the world gets more plastic surgery done than Americans do.
• The United States leads the world in eating disorder deaths.
• According to NationMaster.com, the United States has the most total reported crimes in the world by far.
• Nobody has more airport security thugs groping women and children than America does.
• The United States exports more arms to other countries than anyone else in the world.
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