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Monday, March 5, 2012</p>
<p>Is the USA still #1?&nbsp; Well, there are many things that America is still the best in the world at, but unfortunately a lot of those categories are nothing to be proud of.&nbsp; Once upon a time the United States was the greatest nation on earth, but now we are a nation that is in a horrific state of decline.</p>
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<p>Just consider a few of the embarrassing things that America leads the world in: obesity, crime, divorce, teen pregnancy, child abuse deaths and government debt.&nbsp; The statistics that you are about to read below are incredibly disturbing.&nbsp; Most people that write these kinds of articles about the decline of America hate this country.&nbsp; But that is not the case with me.&nbsp; I was born and raised in America and I love this nation deeply.&nbsp; It is time to realize that we will never be able to start fixing our problems until we take a really good look in the mirror and realize just how far we have fallen.&nbsp; America is not the country that it once was.&nbsp; America is a complete and total mess and just “tweaking” a few things here and there is not going to return this nation to its former glory.&nbsp; We have forgotten the things that once made us great, and if we do not return to them we will continue to fall apart as a nation.</p>
<p>With that being said, the following are 40 embarrassing things that America is the best in the world at….</p>
<p><strong>#1</strong> America has&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri ... risoners-per-capita" title="the highest incarceration rate">the highest incarceration rate</a> and the largest&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/wor ... .12253738.html?_r=1" title="total prison population">total prison population</a> in the entire world by a good margin.</p>
<p><strong>#2</strong> There are more car thefts in the United States than anywhere else in the world&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri ... he-crime-car-thefts" title="by far">by far</a>.</p>
<p><strong>#3</strong> Of all the major industrialized nations, America is&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity" title="the most obese">the most obese</a>.&nbsp; Mexico is #2.</p>
<p><strong>#4</strong> The average American drinks&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.everyday-wisdom.com/soft-drink-consumption.html" title="more than 600 sodas">more than 600 sodas</a> a year – the most in the world.</p>
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<p><strong>#5</strong> U.S. corporations sell more fast food and more soda than anyone else in the world&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food" title="by a wide margin">by a wide margin</a>.</p>
<p><strong>#6</strong> Nobody watches more television per week (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/med ... -television-viewing" title="28 hours">28 hours</a>) than Americans do.&nbsp; Although to be honest, people living in the UK are tied with us.</p>
<p><strong>#7</strong> The United States leads the world&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nilsonreport.com/pdf/news/112111.pdf" title="in credit card fraud">in credit card fraud</a>.</p>
<p><strong>#8</strong> The United States has the highest percentage of&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo ... e-person-households" title="one person households">one person households</a> on the entire planet.</p>
<p><strong>#9</strong> The United States has the highest&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo ... people-divorce-rate" title="divorce rate">divorce rate</a> in the world by a good margin.</p>
<p><strong>#10</strong> The United States has the highest&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea ... age-pregnancy-share" title="teen pregnancy rate">teen pregnancy rate</a> in the world by far.</p>
<p><strong>#11</strong> There are more&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.c ... n-school-shootings/" title="school shootings">school shootings</a> in America than anywhere else in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#12</strong> The United States has the highest&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/V ... e_Death_Rate_111018" title="child abuse death rate">child abuse death rate</a> in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#13</strong> There are more “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10 ... le=Death_By_Reptile" title="deaths by reptile">deaths by reptile</a>” in America than anywhere else in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#14</strong> The United States has the most&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_countr ... _lawyers_per_capita" title="lawyers per capita">lawyers per capita</a> in the entire world.</p>
<p><strong>#15</strong> The United States produces&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2007/05/12/internet-pornography-stats/" title="more pornography">more pornography</a> than any other nation in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#16</strong> Americans take more&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/arch ... lebrities-have-been" title="prescription drugs">prescription drugs</a> than anyone else in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#17</strong> More is spent on&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/arch ... lebrities-have-been" title="prescription drug advertising">prescription drug advertising</a> in America than anywhere else in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#18</strong> The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/art ... medicated-americans" title="is higher">is higher</a> than in any other country in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#19</strong> More people have been diagnosed with&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/arc ... else/246035/#slide3" title="mental disorders">mental disorders</a> in America than anywhere else on earth.</p>
<p><strong>#20</strong> The United States has the highest rate&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/0 ... d/main4222322.shtml" title="of illegal drug use">of illegal drug use</a> on the entire globe.</p>
<p><strong>#21</strong> There is more&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mybudget360.com/endgame-cr ... d-bull-market-over/" title="credit card debt">credit card debt</a> in America than anywhere else in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#22</strong> There is more&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/30-cha ... ng-a-home-2011-4#-8" title="mortgage debt">mortgage debt</a> in America than anywhere else in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#23</strong> There is more&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.finaid.org/loans/studentloandebtclock.phtml" title="student loan debt">student loan debt</a> in America than anywhere else in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#24</strong> The United States spends more money on&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/arch ... -government-schools" title="government schools">government schools</a> than any other nation on earth does.</p>
<p><strong>#25</strong> U.S. citizens spend more time in school than anyone else in the world.&nbsp; So why are so many of us&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/arch ... tudents-do-not-know" title="dumb as a rock">dumb as a rock</a>?</p>
<p><strong>#26</strong> Nobody in the world gets&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php" title="more plastic surgery done">more plastic surgery done</a> than Americans do.</p>
<p><strong>#27</strong> The United States leads the world&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mor ... ty-eating-disorders" title="in eating disorder deaths">in eating disorder deaths</a>.</p>
<p><strong>#28</strong> According&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri ... -crime-total-crimes" title="to nationmaster.com">to nationmaster.com</a>, the United States has the most total reported crimes in the world by far.</p>
<p><strong>#29</strong> Nobody has more airport security thugs&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012 ... ntent=Google+Reader" title="groping women and children">groping women and children</a> than America does.</p>
<p><strong>#30</strong> The United States spends much more on health care&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.alternet.org/story/150691/ ... ptional?page=entire" title="as a percentage of GDP">as a percentage of GDP</a> than any other nation on the face of the earth.</p>
<p><strong>#31</strong> The United States has&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States" title="the most complicated tax system">the most complicated tax system</a> on the entire planet.</p>
<p><strong>#32</strong> The United States has&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/arch ... erything-is-illegal" title="the most laws">the most laws</a> on the entire planet.</p>
<p><strong>#33</strong> The United States spends more on the military than&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.globalissues.org/article/7 ... d-military-spending" title="the next 12 nations combined">the next 12 nations combined</a>, and yet the Obama administration is considering plans to unilaterally slash the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/arch ... -another-80-percent" title="by up to 80 percent">by up to 80 percent</a>.</p>
<p><strong>#34</strong> The United States has the most foreign military bases in the world&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_ ... f_the_United_States" title="by far">by far</a>.</p>
<p><strong>#35</strong> The United States&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mil ... -developing-nations" title="exports more arms">exports more arms</a> to other countries than anyone else in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#36</strong> Americans spend more time&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cost-o ... about-101-billion-9" title="sitting in traffic">sitting in traffic</a> than anyone else in the world.</p>
<p><strong>#37</strong> Americans spend more money&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/arch ... will-blow-your-mind" title="on elections">on elections</a> than anyone else does in the world by a very wide margin.</p>
<p><strong>#38</strong> Every single year, the United States has&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/s ... istorical/gands.pdf" title="the largest trade deficit in the world">the largest trade deficit in the world</a> by far.</p>
<p><strong>#39</strong> The U.S. government&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/arch ... s-spending-money-on" title="wastes more money">wastes more money</a> than any other government on earth does.</p>
<p><strong>#40</strong> The United States has accumulated the biggest mountain&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/national-debt" title="of government debt">of government debt</a> in the history of the world.</p>
<p>So is the USA #1?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the answer way too often is yes.</p>
<p>The goal of this list of embarrassing things is not to trash America.</p>
<p>Rather, the goal is to wake Americans up and to get them to realize what has happened to us.</p>
<p>We should be deeply humbled and embarrassed as a nation.&nbsp; We were once the best in the world and the envy of the entire globe, but now the whole world is laughing at us.</p>
<p>America is supposed to be a beacon of liberty, freedom and prosperity for the entire planet.</p>
<p>Instead, we are rapidly turning into a horror show.</p>
<p>Wake up America.&nbsp; The condition of our country is absolutely shameful, and every single day it gets even worse.</p>
<p>Please share this list with as many people as you can.&nbsp; The American people need a massive wake up call, and it is up to those of us that are awake to share the truth while we still can.</p>
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