Woo Hoo! America is Number One!

[Z06PDQ]

Tracking Our Downward Spiral
The Ways in Which America Still “Leads’ the World
By Richard Clark
March 29, 2011 "Information Clearing House" ----
  The Ways in Which America Still “Leads’ the World   :      Information Clearing House: ICH

According to Yes Magazine, amongst 20 of the world’s wealthiest countries, America now has:

* the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children;

* the greatest inequality of incomes;

* the smallest amount of government spending (as a percentage of GDP) on social programs for the disadvantaged;

* the lowest number of paid holidays, annual leave days and maternity leave days;

* the lowest score on the UN’s index of material well-being of children;

* the worst score on the UN’s gender inequality index;

* the lowest social mobility (i.e. in America, more members of the lower and middle class remain stuck in that class than ever before);

* the highest public and private expenditure on health care (as a portion of GDP), and yet accompanied by:

- the highest infant mortality rate

- the greatest prevalence of mental health problems

- the highest obesity rate

- the largest percentage of people going without health care due to cost

- the greatest number of low birth weight children per capita

- the greatest consumption of anti-depressants per capita

- the shortest life expectancy at birth (except for Portugal);

- the largest amount of carbon dioxide emissions and water consumption per capita;

- the lowest score on the World Economic Forums Environmental Performance Index and the largest Ecological Footprint per capita (except for Belgium);

- the highest rate of failing to ratify international agreements;

- the lowest amount of spending on international development and humanitarian assistance as a percentage of GDP;

- the largest amount of military spending as a portion of GDP;

- the largest amount of international arms sales;

- the largest negative balance of payments (except New Zealand, Spain and Portugal);

- the lowest scores for student performance in math (except for Portugal and Italy) (and far down from the top in both science and reading);

- the highest high school drop out rate (except for Spain);

And now, to top it off, America is leading all other industrialized democracies by bringing back debtors’ prisons!

Millions of folks around the good ol’ USA have been screwed over by predatory lenders and fine-print credit card contracts, and now, partly because of that, many of them are swimming in debt. And now, some of these people are actually being thrown in prison for going into debt. That’s right, America in the 21st century is bringing back debtors’ prisons! People who can’t pay off their credit cards can now be thrown in jail in a third of the states in our nation — and since the start of 2010, over 5,000 arrest warrants have been issued against people who owe as little as $1,000 to massively profitable corporations like Capital One. (Source: Thom Hartmann’s emailed newsletter)

So let me get this straight. A few years after the financial crisis, where massive fraud was perpetrated by Wall Street, not one bankster is in jail, but 5,000 lower- or middle-class Americans, who were screwed over by these banksters, could be sent to debtors’ prison??!
be proud ,America.

[Exotix]

[Z06PDQ]

YouTube - Thom Hartmann exposes the new debtor's prison?

[Scissors]

Freedom comes at a price.

[RetiredSFC 97]

appears like all the socialism since the sixties has been a failure.

thanks for posting this information!

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by RetiredSFC 97

appears like all the socialism since the sixties has been a failure.

thanks for posting this information!

So let's go back to the 50s, where it was all good.

[Luetic]

highest gdp takes work

most of those stats are iffy at best

[Entropy]

Originally Posted by Luetic

highest gdp takes work

most of those stats are iffy at best

[Z06PDQ]

Originally Posted by Luetic

most of those stats are iffy at best

that may be so,but until you disprove them they will stand.

[Z06PDQ]

Originally Posted by ChasC5

So let's go back to the 50s, where it was all good.

Why the Economy Grows Like Crazy Amid High Taxes | Economy | AlterNet

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Z06PDQ

that may be so,but until you disprove them they will stand.

WHY is that?? because the UN said so?? or some other liberal think tank??

you assume there is NO political crap position behind the generation of that report?? REALLY??....SERIOUSLY???

Bullshit.....

[Entropy]

Originally Posted by Z06PDQ

that may be so,but until you disprove them they will stand.

So what plans do you want to implement to improve these statistics?

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Entropy

So what plans do you want to implement to improve these statistics?

More .gov spending and taxing, and a decline in the living standard....

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by Entropy

So what plans do you want to implement to improve these statistics?

Anything different than the choices employed for the last two Wars or start!

If we don’t learn anything from past mistakes … the we’re stupid.

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by ChasC5

Anything different than the choices employed for the last two Wars or start!

If we don’t learn anything from past mistakes … the we’re stupid.

I happen to agree with you about the stupidity of our .gov in DC and the war power use......since WW2, it's been nothing but a **** up....



with ONE possible exception, when Dutch went into Grenada.....

and even then his failure to follow up with another bomb on queerdaffy duck there.....so that's a 50-50 record at best.....

I blame the PROGRESSIVES which dominate both parties....in fact there is only really ONE party, the Progressives....

[Z06PDQ]

Originally Posted by mrvette

WHY is that?? because the UN said so?? or some other liberal think tank??

you assume there is NO political crap position behind the generation of that report?? REALLY??....SERIOUSLY???

Bullshit.....

bring your facts to refute them or STFU. it's simple & it's the way things work.

[Z06PDQ]

Originally Posted by Entropy

So what plans do you want to implement to improve these statistics?

see post #10. it's a good place to start.

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Z06PDQ

bring your facts to refute them or STFU. it's simple & it's the way things work.

So the author/s of that list don't have to prove a damn thing??

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by mrvette

So the author/s of that list don't have to prove a damn thing??

Worked for the Republicans for a Decade .

[The_Dude]