Saturday, August 20, 2011

Decline and Rebirth

world-shaker:

To our great shame, among the 20 major advanced countries America now has

  • the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children;
  • the greatest inequality of incomes;
  • the lowest government spending as a percentage of GDP on social programs for the disadvantaged;
  • the lowest number of paid holiday, annual, and maternity leaves;
  • the lowest score on the United Nations’ index of “material well-being of children”;
  • the worst score on the United Nations’ gender inequality index;
  • the lowest social mobility;
  • the highest public and private expenditure on health care as a portion of GDP,

yet accompanied by the highest

  • infant mortality rate;
  • prevalence of mental health problems;
  • obesity rate;
  • portion of people going without health care due to cost;
  • low-birth-weight children per capita (except for Japan);
  • consumption of antidepressants per capita;

This is why I drink in the morning.

And the stats get worse:

along with the shortest life expectancy at birth (except for Denmark and Portugal);

  • the highest carbon dioxide emissions and water consumption per capita;
  • the lowest score on the World Economic Forum’s environmental performance index (except for Belgium), and the largest ecological footprint per capita (except for Belgium and Denmark);
  • the highest rate of failing to ratify international agreements;
  • the lowest spending on international development and humanitarian assistance as a percentage of GDP;
  • the highest military spending as a portion of GDP;
  • the largest international arms sales;
  • the most 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 from the top in both science and reading);
  • the highest high school dropout rate (except for Spain);
  • the highest homicide rate;
  • and the largest prison population per capita.

Posted at 11:23 AM 96 notes Reblogged from allisonunsupervised Tags: America news politics statistics

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    *Sigh* glad to be Canadian (no offense), universal healthcare, man
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    I wish I could start a program to force people to spend their money wisely. Like buy food from a grocery store rather...
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  17. mymercurialmusings reblogged this from compositional and added:
    Just depressing.
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    GOOD OL MURKA
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  20. sludgewaveofficial reblogged this from friscotsc and added:
    And people wonder why I want out of America so badly. Stop being ignorant fucks about this shitty country.
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    We’re no. 1.
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    ( I just think stay positive and live life)
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