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My wife was doing her daily flipping around the new channels today and in the two hours she was moving between them (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, etc) I heard talking head pundits (mostly conservative) stating that we live in the greatest country on earth. For some reason this kind of pissed me off today. Probably because I hear it said so often that I don't even pay attention any more, but today it just rubbed me the wrong way so I went and looked around a bit and here is my list of why the US is the greatest country on earth!
1) We have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Compared to the rest of the first world, our incarceration rates are obscene. Though I'm sure it has nothing to do with privatization (or prison for profit).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
2)From an earlier thread. We also have more deaths in school shootings than the rest of the world combined. Another number to be proud of. WE ROCK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#1990s
3) We are the 52nd worst country for income inequality. We hang out in the list with great countries like Cambodia, Mozambique and Turkmenistan.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_inc_equ_un_gin_ind-income-equality-un-gini-index
4) We have the greatest healthcare system in the world.
We put out the most per captia for health care but are 36th in life expectancy and 37th in efficiency.
http://lauraschneider.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/where-does-america-rank-in-healthcare-quality-and-efficiency/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
5) We are 20th in the education index behind such power houses as Cuba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Slovenia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index
6) Our #1 export is Jobs and our #1 import is cheap foreign labor, legal or illegal.
Now on to some things that you can't really quantify through statistics.
Entertainment:
Jersey Shore, Survivor, Apprentice / Celebrity Apprentice, American Idol, Anything on TruTV, etc, so on and so forth.
Corporatism, Consumerism, and the plain old fact that everything we see or hear is geared to either extract more money from us, or gather information on how to better extract money from us. This also includes the waste brought on by planned obsolescence because you need to keep sales numbers at a certain level. Running a profitable business isn't good enough. It has to be OBSCENELY profitable.
Like our freedom of choice in politics, our freedom of speech is just an illusion.
We are the most policed and monitored nation ever to exist. We have no privacy because someone is always watching and someone is always listening. Some governments and agencies sell private information to public companies.
"Free Market Capitalism" is good until the "Free Market" screws us all, then we bail it out and its good again.
You can spend more time in prison for downloading a song than you can for raping your neighbor.
We, as Americans, are not measured by what we accomplish in life, but by what we accumulate.
If this is truly the best we can do we are surely and completely fvcked.
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What can you add to our list of great crowning achievements.
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Whoa, dude! Chill!
Drink some Bud. Catch a game on the tube.
Relax...
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Perhaps you should consider becoming an expatriate.
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Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Whoa, dude! Chill!
Drink some Bud. Catch a game on the tube.
Relax...
No thanks to the bud. American lagers taste like shit.  I'll have a homebrew if you don't mind.
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Szerek posted:
Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Whoa, dude! Chill!
Drink some Bud. Catch a game on the tube.
Relax...
No thanks to the bud.
Commie.
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Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Szerek posted:
Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Whoa, dude! Chill!
Drink some Bud. Catch a game on the tube.
Relax...
No thanks to the bud.
Commie.
Pft, I prefer a variety of microbrews and I like experimenting on my own. I like beer that is made with BARLEY and not rice and potato peels.
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America was only great by accident
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Well America was built by the blood, sweat, and tears of our anscestors. They had great vision and they all came here to make better lives for themselves than they had back home. They even went to explore the dangerous frontier in America for those same reasons.
When an organism stops growing it begins to die. America is dying
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 Relax chief.
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smellymotor posted:
America was only great by accident
And Australia was only a country by the grace of the Queen.
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Szerek posted:
Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Szerek posted:
[quote=Abaddon_Ambrosius]Whoa, dude! Chill!
Drink some Bud. Catch a game on the tube.
Relax...
No thanks to the bud.
Commie.
Pft, I prefer a variety of microbrews and I like experimenting on my own. I like beer that is made with BARLEY and not rice and potato peels.[/quote]
cheers brother!
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Szerek posted:
1) We have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
So, we punish people who break the law?
This is a bad thing in your world?? WTF?
Szerek posted:
3) We are the 52nd worst country for income inequality.
This is not a metric anyone should give a rats ass about. Seriously.
Szerek posted:
4) We have the greatest healthcare system in the world.
People on socialized medicine routinely come to this country to get their medical needs taken care of... so yea, we do.
Szerek posted:
5) We are 20th in the education index behind such power houses as Cuba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Slovenia.
Obviously we need to throw more money at it?
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We punish too many people too severely to the detriment of our society.
That is a fact.
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The greatest in terms of rape, murder, divorce and marriage. The rest meh, only a few things. Military and..... military and... military and.... Guns maybe, cheese burgers....
I got nothing else
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Might I get on my soapbox and suggest you get involved in the political process Szerek?
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Shame on you.
You should get down on your hands and knees and kiss the ground you stand on.
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Allstarslacker posted:
smellymotor posted:
America was only great by accident
And Australia was only a country by the grace of the Queen.
no accidents here 
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We are great at teenage pregnancy and drug addiction!
We're #1
We're #1
USA
USA
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Koneg posted:
Szerek posted:
1) We have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
So, we punish people who break the law?
This is a bad thing in your world?? WTF?
Szerek posted:
3) We are the 52nd worst country for income inequality.
This is not a metric anyone should give a rats ass about. Seriously.
Szerek posted:
4) We have the greatest healthcare system in the world.
People on socialized medicine routinely come to this country to get their medical needs taken care of... so yea, we do.
Szerek posted:
5) We are 20th in the education index behind such power houses as Cuba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Slovenia.
Obviously we need to throw more money at it?
Most Americans are like Koneg unfortunatly. Most Americans aren't like some of the finer ones on this board. They are Koneg or less intelligent then he. It's a damn unfortunate thing, but most Americans deserve the mess the future children will die in.
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If USA used more money on its people, less on strategically meaningless foreign wars everyone in USA would be living in an utopia by now.
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You know they could still have these pointless wars and an enormous military and still have enough money left over to run their country well..... If they weren't so retarded
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Preach it Szerek!
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I wish USA never changes! Canada makes billions on poor Americans coming to Canada to buy same meds but with half the price and rest of us get our money from selling USA bits & bobs for their war machine.
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Sean Hannity posted:
The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.
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I need to add to the list:
Killing brown people
and
Sniffing out WMD, wherever they may, or may not exist.
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The US fails, at removing electricity, internet, and freedom of speech from morAns that think they are oppressed and impoverished.
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"Why do you hate America" is a rhetorical question noob.
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Yes it is, even though we all have had different experiences in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE63k4KxwCI&feature=related
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