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| Anthony Freda Art |
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Every single year, Americans take the day off on July 4th and they celebrate everything that is good about America. We tend to be very proud of our achievements and we generally are not shy about talking about them. For example, today CNN is running a piece entitled "100 great things about America".
And you know what? There are a lot of great things about this country. I am not afraid to say that I love America. In many ways it has been a great light for the rest of the world since it was founded.
However, things have changed. The United States has greatly fallen from where it once was. The truth is that America is rotting and decaying in thousands of different ways. We need to repent and go back to doing the things that once made this country great. The road that we are currently on is a path that leads to national suicide.
So, to be honest, now is not really the time for happy celebrations. Rather, now is the time for weeping, mourning and deep reflection. We need to turn from our profligate ways and we need to return to the fundamental principles that the early Americans understood so well. As a nation we need to look into the mirror and understand just how bad our decline has been. We are a complete and total mess, and it is time to admit that.
The following are 70 reasons to mourn for America....
1. Most Americans know much more about Kim Kardashian than they do about the Federal Reserve.
2. The way that the TSA abuses travelers is a national embarrassment. One TSA agent recently sifted her finger through the ashes of someone's dead grandfather and then spilled his ashes all over the airport floor.
3. Many young people in America are willing to wait in line to pay a 400% markup on new Kanye West sneakers, but most of those same young people cannot even tell you how many members of Congress there are.
4. Many Americans seem to be far more interested in American Idol and Dancing With The Stars than they are in dealing with the very serious economic, political and moral problems facing this nation.
5. A recent survey found that 61 percent of all Americans believe that "paying your fair share of taxes" is being patriotic.
6. We currently have the worst president in U.S. history, and there is a chance that we may have to endure another 4 years of his insanity.
7. We have a Supreme Court that appears to have very little respect for the U.S. Constitution.
8. The financial center of our country, Wall Street, is full of psychopaths.
9. America has the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in the entire world by a very wide margin.10. The highways of America are rapidly being turned into a high tech prison grid.
11. American children today are very spoiled, very undisciplined and most of them wouldn't know a day of hard work if it came up and bit them on the behind.
12. Today, approximately 25 million American adults are still living with their parents.
13. Back in 1962, only 13 percent of all Americans were obese. Today, approximately 36 percent of all Americans are obese.
14. Of all the major industrialized nations, America is the most obese. Mexico is in second place.
15. According to one recent survey, only 25 percent of all Americans have 6 months of emergency savings stored up.
16. The United States leads the world in credit card fraud.
17. You know that things are bad in America when even the U.S. Secret Service has developed "an Animal House reputation" for partying wildly while guarding Barack Obama during his vacations on Martha's Vineyard.
18. In many areas of the country crime is getting worse and thieves are stealing just about anything that is not bolted down.
19. One recent poll found that only 70 percent of Americans agree with the Declaration of Independence.
20. The average American watches 28 hours of television every week.
21. There are more school shootings in America than anywhere else in the world.
22. Authorities are warning that ATM thefts are on the rise again.
23. Incredibly, 85 percent of the stuff sold at the biggest retailer in the United States is made outside of the country.
24. The average American drinks more than 600 sodas every single year. That is by far the most in the world.
25. The United States has the most lawyers per capita in the entire world.
26. Approximately 50 million babies have been slaughtered in hospitals and abortion clinics in America since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973.
27. The media is now trying to convince us that killing off our elderly grandparentswhen they get sick is the "right thing" to do.
28. According to one survey, 50 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 cannot find the state of New York on a blank map.29. Americans take more prescription drugs than anyone else on the planet.
30. The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.
31. The United States has the highest rate of illegal drug use in the entire world.
32. Faith in almost every major American institution is near an all-time low.
33. The U.S. healthcare system is a complete and total mess, and now Obamacare is going to make things much, much worse.
34. Our food is rapidly being transformed into absolute garbage. As I wrote about the other day, at this point more than 70 percent of all processed foods sold in the U.S. contain at least one ingredient that has been genetically modified.
35. More people have been diagnosed with mental disorders in America than anywhere else on earth.
36. Our federal government refuses to secure our borders and has decided that most illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay inside the country.
37. Our public schools have become horribly repressive indoctrination centers.
38. The United States produces more pornography by far than any other nation in the world does.
39. According to the Pew Research Center, only 51 percent of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all U.S. adults were married.
40. The United States has the highest divorce rate in the world by a very wide margin.
41. American families are rapidly getting poorer. According to the Federal Reserve, the median net worth of families in the United States declined "from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010".
42. According to one study, one out of every four teen girls in the United States has at least one sexually transmitted disease.
43. The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate on the entire globe.
44. The United States leads the world in eating disorder deaths.
45. Nobody has more airport security thugs groping women and children than America does.
46. Many Republicans still believe that George W. Bush was a "conservative" and that he was a "good president".
47. The Obama administration is considering plans to unilaterally slash the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal by up to 80 percent.
48. The United States has the most complicated tax system on the entire planet.
49. All over the United States, chaplains are being banned from praying in the name of Jesus.
50. The United States exports more arms to other countries than anyone else in the world.
51. The United States has the highest child abuse death rate on the entire globe.
52. Every single year, the United States has the largest trade deficit in the world by far.
53. The United States was once ranked #1 in the world in GDP per capita. Today wehave slipped to #12.
54. One of the most popular movies in America right now is about men dancing around and taking their clothes off.55. Americans spend more time sitting in traffic than anyone else in the world.
56. According to Forbes, the 400 wealthiest Americans now have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans combined.
57. The percentage of Americans that consider the Bible to be important continues to fall.
58. Some schools in America have decided to start using RFID tracking chips to monitor the movement of their students.
59. Society is starting to collapse all around us and it seems like the number of psychos in America is multiplying.
60. The poverty rate for children living in the United States is now 22 percent.
61. Nobody in the world gets more plastic surgery done than Americans do.
62. Many young people in America today are not afraid to viciously verbally abuse those that are elderly.
63. Today, 53.6 percent of all children in the city Detroit are living in poverty and 47 percent of all people living in the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.
64. The U.S. government wastes more money than any other government on earth does by far.
65. All over America, people are being attacked by mobs simply because of the color of their skin.
66. Today, the United States actually has a higher percentage of workers doing low wage work than any other major industrialized nation does.
67. America has pushed God out of every corner of public life and now we are really starting to really feel the consequences of that.
68. In Colorado, many people returned home after the recent wildfires only to find that their homes had been looted.
69. There is more hate and division in America today than at any other time in recent memory.
70. The U.S. national debt is rapidly approaching 16 trillion dollars and the total amount of debt in the country is rapidly approaching 55 trillion dollars.
So what do you think about the current state of America?
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This article first appeared here at the American Dream. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here.
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8 comments:
#26: Are you trying to claim that abortions of foetuses are similar in any way, shape, or form as murdering children?
#32: Are you saying that 'faith', which is the belief in something without evidence for its existence, is a good thing? Are you daft?
#34: Do you know anything about genetic modification? We have been doing it since we are a species! How do you think bananas came to be the way that they are now? Because we CHOSE, we SELECTED the superior breeds.
#36: All Americans ARE IMMIGRANTS! You took the land from the Natives. Have you ever studied history before?
#39: Yeah, and the women were completely oppressed. Marriage is NOT inherently good. Domestic abuse still happens, a LOT.
#40, 42, 43: The problem is the educational system, as has been pointed out. However, abstinence is a position upheld by the religious right and that pedagogy is the reason for these problems.
#47: That's a GOOD thing. Nuclear weapons, and the amount that America already has, can destroy the ENTIRE planet. Why would we want them around if their only purpose is destruction?
#57: The Bible is still considered to be important, but mostly in the ways that it indoctrinates youth and the ways in which it justifies hatred (against homosexuals, for example - hope you haven't shaved your beard any time recently).
#67: Wrong. God was never there to begin with. Has "HE" ever been observed or measured? No? Then he wasn't influencing anything to begin with! Haven't you heard of the Age of ENLIGHTENMENT?
So, you managed to point out some problems with your country to get some internet traffic. *Slow Clap* Maybe you should try posting SOLUTIONS instead of complaining. Take a stand on the Occupy Movement, take a stand on Wikileaks, on the useless War on Terror, on Drugs, on Black Youth.
(Thanks for allowing anonymous posting, however. That is a GOOD thing otherwise you wouldn't be forced to defend your opinions :P)
Personally, I'm ok with #49, #57, and #67. Religion is a tool that allows for those in power to maintain power. Most are also egotistical claiming their God is better than any other. All religions can't have the #1 God, somebody has to be right somebody has to be wrong. For the most part it's only naive people who do not wish to believe they have the power to succeed or make things happen in this life that cling to religion. They want someone else to decide their life instead of thinking for themselves.
Saying God has never been there to begin with is absolutely Crap! There is Higher Power. Great Conciousness that is all around everything and everyone. If you focus on it you can feel it.
It doesn't matter what your religion is.
Actually you missed a ton of things on why US sucks ass now! But you already know them or you wouldn't have this page.
The person up above with the Thanks for allowing anonymous poster sounds like troll!
Yes America Controlled by Israel and the UK Crown is going towards there Agenda, it always has since Washington and the Freemasons.
America has been controlled by Israel since Washington? We are getting a bit loose with our facts here, are we not?
Yes you are correrct! Killing fetuses is the SAME as murdering children! SMH!!!
First annonymous (re: inexistence of God):
With intelligence like that, no wonder America is dead.
The Media made a war between homosexuality and God to the forefront as every SIN is mentioned in the bible before hand.....saying yes to Homosexuality is like say yes to EVERY sin....Plus speaking of hatred I see the million killed in IRAQ and million more in vietnam what about their RIGHTS...... in response to the 1st Anonymous. S
Lets be honest, a lot of these problems are in the "vibrant diversity" communities. Not saying it doesn't happen in American homes but the problem is mainly with the minorities. And we all know that they refuse all attempts to be civilized so what are we supposed to do? Keep throwing money at the problem and impoverishing ourselves and punishing our children (you send your kids to school with them, I dare you)? How much longer are we going to keep our heads in the sand and pretend that they're "just like us" and can be good upstanding citizens?
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