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AMERICA DOWN THE TOILET

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Global Rankings Study Depicts an America in Warp Speed Decline

 

If America needed a reminder that it is fast becoming a second-rate nation, and that every economic policy of the Republican Party is wrongheaded, it got one this week with the release of the Social Progress Index (SPI).

 

The writing is on the wall. 

 

If Americans continue to ignore what is going on under their own noses (especially in Congress and SCOTUS)

it’s likely that the end will come sooner than later and it won’t be from climate change.

 

Government which at one time was established to “govern” has transformed into a 3-ring circus where clowns compete for the spotlight. Even the old timers are heading for the nearest exits as they are being replaced by nothing more than political whores; bought and packaged by their John’s to do their bidding.  

 

A place that was once ruled by the power of the vote and a commitment to our Constitution is now ruled by a small number of people obsessed with power and flush with money all in service to feeding their own self-interests. 

While the U.S. enjoys the second highest per capita GDP of $45,336, it ranks in an underperforming 16th place overall.  

 
The U.S. ranks 70th in health, 69th in ecosystem sustainability, 39th in basic education, 34th in access to water and sanitation and 31st in personal safety.
 
The U.S. ranks a disappointing 23rd in access to the Internet. “It’s astonishing that for a country that has Silicon Valley, lack of access to information is a red flag,” notes Michael Green, executive director of the Social Progress Imperative, which oversees the index.

The U.S. remains in first place for the number of incarcerated citizens per capita, adult onset diabetes and for believing in angels.

New Zealand is ranked in first place in social progress. Interestingly, it ranks only 25th on GDP per capita, which means the island of the long white cloud is doing a far better job than America when it comes to meeting the need of its people. In order, the top 10 is rounded out by Switzerland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Denmark and Australia.

These nations ranked high in the 2013 U.N. World Happiness Report with Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden among the top five.

The U.S? In terms of happiness, we rank 17th, trailing neighboring Mexico.

We find ourselves languishing for the very fact we have allowed corporate America to hijack the entire Republican Party, and some parts of the Democratic Party. This influence has bought corporations and the rich a rigged tax code that has redistributed wealth from the middle class to the rich over the course of the past three decades. This lack of shared prosperity and opportunity has retarded our social progress.

America’s rapid descent into impoverished nation status is the inevitable result of unchecked corporate capitalism. By every measure, we look like a broken banana republic. Not a single U.S. city is included in the world’s top 10 most livable cities. Only one U.S. airport makes the list of the top 100 in the world. Our roads, schools and bridges are falling apart, and our trains — none of them high-speed — are running off their tracks.

With 95 percent of all economic gains funneled to the richest 1 percent over the course of the last decade, and a tax code that has starved the federal government of revenues to invest in public infrastructure, America will be a country divided by those who have and those who have not. 

 
InThe World As It Is, Chris Hedges writes, “Our anemic democracy will be replaced with a robust national police state. The elite will withdraw into heavily guarded gated communities where they will have access to security, goods, and services that cannot be afforded by the rest of us. Tens of millions of people, brutally controlled, will live in perpetual poverty.”



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    • omatron

      I am not sure where you get your stats but some of what you say is off. First, the entire two party is a privately controlled fraud and illegal scam set up and controlled by the illuminati. Secondly, in a 2000 World Health Organization study Amerika ranked 37th in Health Care, one place ahead of Slovenia; which represents a complete free fall today. Third, U.S. is a third rate country which creates no real wealth and 88 MM people are employed supporting a population of 320 MM. If you factor out the net loss of wealth of the burdonsome government employees you can subtract 30-40% of that work force and the “service sector”, which represents a non real wealth creating convience factor, you are left with a mere 9 MM people “creating” wealth through manufacturing. Of course everyone likes to pretend their job is essential an indispensible but the notion is self righteous arrogant nonsense. Amerika has collapsed but as with The Titanic, it failed when it hit the iceberg; not when the bilge pumps quit and it slipped under the water for the last. Your warning is too little too late as it can never recover. Sorry people, but you did it and/or let it happen through tolerance of organized crime and corruption in government.

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