USA is #1 in 20 different categorys...all bad.

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Well said. :D

Thats the problem with big government, as soon as people make one place productive, they follow in behind and bleed the people try until they destroy it and force people to build up another area, and the cycle repeats itself.
 
Just glancing at this list, and noting, for example, that the US is supposedly #1 for rape, I immediately suspect totals are being used for some items on the list, and rates are being used for other items on the list, and so we're not making apple to apple comparisons. It's enabled a longer list, but it's not valid.

Edit: I do note the use of "reported", which I think is unfair. We have a better reporting infrastructure than, say, the DRC. But I think the estimates of the DRC (for rape) are probably correct, they do come from more than one source.
 
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Well said. :D

Thats the problem with big government, as soon as people make one place productive, they follow in behind and bleed the people try until they destroy it and force people to build up another area, and the cycle repeats itself.
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Of course, if we're "#1" in all these things, then we're naturally "winning" over nations with even bigger governments than ours. According to your assertion that should not be the case.
 
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... so we're not making apple to apple comparisons. It's enabled a longer list, but it's not valid.
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Just glancing at this list, and noting, for example, that the US is supposedly #1 for rape, I immediately suspect totals are being used for some items on the list, and rates are being used for other items on the list, and so we're not making apple to apple comparisons. It's enabled a longer list, but it's not valid.

Edit: I do note the use of "reported", which I think is unfair. We have a better reporting infrastructure than, say, the DRC. But I think the estimates of the DRC (for rape) are probably correct, they do come from more than one source.
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Yeah, your right, i doubt we have a higher rape rate than afghanistan or somalia, for example, because no women out there report it when it happens.

You said you think it is unfair, but how do you propose they track stats on all rapes when the unreported ones, by definition, are not known about.
 
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Yeah, your right, i doubt we have a higher rape rate than afghanistan or somalia, for example, because no women out there report it when it happens.

You said you think it is unfair, but how do you propose they track stats on all rapes when the unreported ones, by definition, are not known about.
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Aid workers, and the CIA, both track these things through interviews. They can only estimate from those, but with enough data you get a pretty good idea of the scope of the problem.

Anyway, the US has problems for sure, but to say it's the worst country in every way is just an excuse for (or the cause of?) more handwringing.
 
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/...ies-that-the-united-states-leads-the-world-in

#1 The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and the largest total prison population on the entire globe.

#2 According to NationMaster.com, the United States has the highest percentage of obese people in the world.

#3 The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin.

#4 The United States is tied with the U.K. for the most hours of television watched per person each week.

#5 The United States has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet.

#6 There are more car thefts in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world by far.

#7 There are more reported rapes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.

#8 There are more reported murders in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.

#9 There are more total crimes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.

#10 The United States also has more police officers than anywhere else in the world.

#11 The United States spends much more on health care as a percentage of GDP than any other nation on the face of the earth.

#12 The United States has more people on pharmaceutical drugs than any other country on the planet.

#13 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.

#14 Americans have more student loan debt than anyone else in the world.

#15 More pornography is created in the United States than anywhere else on the entire globe. 89 percent is made in the U.S.A. and only 11 percent is made in the rest of the world.

#16 The United States has the largest trade deficit in the world every single year. Between December 2000 and December 2010, the United States ran a total trade deficit of 6.1 trillion dollars with the rest of the world, and the U.S. has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976.

#17 The United States spends 7 times more on the military than any other nation on the planet does. In fact, U.S. military spending is greater than the military spending of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined.

#18 The United States has far more foreign military bases than any other country does.

#19 The United States has the most complicated tax system in the entire world.

#20 The U.S. has accumulated the biggest national debt that the world has ever seen and it is rapidly getting worse. Right now, U.S. government debt is expanding at a rate of $40,000 per second.

So are you convinced that we are in trouble yet?
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cause or effect?

#21 80% of american believe there is an invisible man in the sky who created or designed humans.
 
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cause or effect?

#21 80% of american believe there is an invisible man in the sky who created or designed humans.
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Yeah, that must be it, because you see a disproportionate number of bible thumpers, who attend church every sunday, raping, murdering, and stealing from people.
 
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