America #1? 36 Facts That Prove That The United States Is An ‘Exceptional’ Nation

End Of The American Dream

The American Dream Is Becoming A Nightmare And Life As We Know It Is About To Change

By Michael Snyder, on October 13th, 2015

 

Is the United States an “exceptional” nation?  Well, the facts show that we are, but not for the reasons that you may think.  Now that it is election season, we have all sorts of politicians running around proclaiming that America is the greatest nation on the entire planet.  And just this week, Warren Buffett stated that “America’s great now — it’s never been greater“.  But is it actually true?  Is the United States still a great nation?  I would submit that the numbers suggest otherwise.  I love America, and in my opinion there is not much hope for us until we are willing to admit to ourselves just how far we have fallen.  The following are 36 facts that prove that the United States is an “exceptional” nation…

#1 According to a brand new report that was just released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States has the fattest population in the entire industrialized world by a wide margin.

#2 That same report from the OECD also found that we are number one in child obesity.  In fact, at 38 percent our rate of childhood obesity is even higher than our overall rate of obesity.

#3 According to USA Today, the obesity rate in the United States has more than doubled over the past 25 years.

#4The Washington Post has reported that Americans spend an average of 293 minutes a day watching television, which is the most in the world by a wide margin.   And as I have discussed previously, more than 90 percent of the “programming” that we absorb is created by just 6 enormously powerful media corporations.

#5 One study found that the average American spends more than 10 hours a day using some sort of electronic device.

#6 By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.

#7 The average young American will spend 10,000 hours playing video games before the age of 21.

#8 Out of 22 countries studied by the Educational Testing Service, Americans were dead last in tech proficiency, dead last in numeracy and only two countries performed worse than us when it came to literacy proficiency.

#9 In more than half of all U.S. states, the highest paid public employee in the state is a football coach.

#10 The percentage of wealth owned by middle class adults is lower in North America than it is anywhere else in the world.

#11 Almost half of all Americans (47 percent) do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings.

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Economic Recovery has come to the White House, according to the speculated $1.2 Billion in costs for the latest planned upgrade for presidential helicopters announced by the Defense Department.

Official U.S. Marine Corps photo 050521-N-0295M-097 [1] from the USMC website [2]
A U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky VH-3D Sea King helicopter, assigned to Marine Helicopter Squadron 1 (HMX-1), in flight over Washington D.C. on 21 May 2005.
By  :  PH2(AW) Daniel J. McLain
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• The New American

Monday, 12 May 2014 09:47

$1.2 Billion for New White House Helicopters Just the Beginning

Written by  Bob Adelmann

 

It didn’t take long for critics to scoff at the costs of the latest effort to upgrade the fleet of presidential helicopters announced by the Defense Department on Wednesday, May 7. They say the $1.2-billion contract awarded to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation will be just the beginning.
There are at least two reasons to be skeptical: the open-ended nature of the White House requirements, and recent history.
The Department of Defense outlined its requirements, stating that Marine Helicopter Squadron One, which currently operates 19 presidential helicopters, must provide "safe and timely transportation for the President and Vice President of the United States, heads of state and others as directed by the White House Military Office."

In addition, each aircraft must be equipped with various self-defense features such as bulletproof glass and body panels, as well as specialized communications equipment that allows the president to maintain “critical command functions” while airborne. Each helicopter must be large enough to carry up to 14 passengers and several thousand pounds of baggage while being small enough to operate from the White House lawn.

Each must have a minimum range of 300 miles and carry a full complement of defensive countermeasures to thwart heat-seeking and radar-directed missiles and also be hardened against an EMP (electromagnetic pulse), either from an enemy or from the sun. It must be able to send and receive encrypted communications and hold secure teleconferences while in flight.
And each must have air-conditioning and a toilet.
Under the contract Sikorsky promises to deliver two prototypes by 2016, with another 21 fully operational aircraft six years later.
Several questions arise. First, why so many? After all, there’s just one president and one vice president. According to Helimart.com, anytime the president flies somewhere by helicopter, four other helicopters are alongside him. They fly in varying formations to keep the president's aircraft as disguised as possible. This is often referred to as the presidential “shell game.” In addition, with a helicopter's range of just 300 miles, a longer trip must “cache” additional aircraft along the route.

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Government Selling Off America : The standoff between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy is about much more than grazing rights. It’s really about sweetheart deals for federal land.

BLM Selling Out America-Fabian Calvo

By Greg Hunter On April 13, 2014

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   (Early Sunday Release)
Real estate expert Fabian Calvo thinks the recent standoff between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy is about much more than grazing rights.  Even though this standoff is over, we find out It’s really about sweetheart deals for federal land.  Calvo says, “The hair on the back of my neck stood up when I was doing research for this and speaking to some of my contacts on Wall Street.  The BLM is part of the Department of the Interior, and look at what they have been doing?  Through the BLM, the Department of the Interior has been confiscating land and going after land, for example, in the high desert in California and all over the place.  What I am hearing is they are categorizing this land for future collateralization or to sell off.  In the Weimar (Germany) hyperinflation, after the hyperinflation, what did they back their currency with?  They backed it with mortgages and they backed it with land.  This is a total possibility here in America, but here’s the part that is more sinister and crazy.  The Department of the Interior and BLM have been providing sweetheart deals for Chinese investors.  I have a laundry list of deals that have been approved just in the last year.  Whether it’s Smithfield, a giant hog producer in America, and all of the farm land, overnight, the Chinese became the number one employer in a ton of cities across the U.S., but it doesn’t stop there.  Chinese investors are getting approval for solar fields.  There are battery companies they have taken over, and the list goes on and on.  The USDA gave the Chinese approval to import their chickens.  Why is this happening?  It is an end of the road situation.  It is just like where America was with England when we were exercising leverage over them around WWII because we were the largest creditor nation.  Now, we are the largest debtor nation, and we owe all this money to the Chinese.  In order to not have them dump our debt, we’re basically allowing them, through the Department of the Interior who is stealing rancher land and killing their cattle, they are selling out America.” 

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Fabian Calvo: BLM and Deals for Chinese Investors, Imploding Dollar and Housing Market Crash

Greg Hunter

Published on Apr 13, 2014

Fabian Calvo from TheNoteHouse.us says, "Real investors are scared to death of the imploding U.S. dollar. . . . Not everybody is a gold investor, and real estate is a tangible hard asset that can be rented out. I think home prices could go up until we have another full blown collapse. I think the collapse of the housing market will be coupled with the stock market collapse, the bond market collapse and the dollar collapse. Everything will blow at once."

As far as the recent crisis between the federal government and the Bundy ranch in Nevada, Calvo says, "I think this Bundy ranch situation could be the Lexington and Concord of the Second American Revolution. Through the BLM, the Department of the Interior has been confiscating land and going after land . . . The Department of Interior and BLM has been providing sweetheart deals for Chinese investors."

Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Fabian Calvo from TheNoteHouse.us.

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Economic and Political News Feb. 28th, 2012

 

Emerging economies to challenge US hold on World Bank

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/emerging-economies-to-challenge-us-hold-on-world-bank/articleshow/12061556.cms

Berkshire Hathaway selects Warren Buffett successor

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/berkshire-hathaway-selects-warren-buffett-successor/articleshow/12050303.cms

Wall Street closes at highest since mid-2008

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/global-markets/wall-street-closes-at-highest-since-mid-2008/articleshow/12063267.cms

Oil price rise raises spectre of global recession

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/oil-price-rise-raises-spectre-of-global-recession/articleshow/12058490.cms

Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, EU among 231 candidates for Nobel Peace Prize

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/Bill-Clinton-Helmut-Kohl-EU-among-231-candidates-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize/articleshow/12062398.cms

Risk On: Was 2008 Just a Bad Dream?

With volatility back to low, pre-crisis levels, safety is being shunned for excitement

http://www.businessweek.com/finance/risk-on-was-2008-just-a-bad-dream-02262012.html

FHA to Increase Cost of Up-Front Mortgage Insurance Premiums

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-27/fha-to-increase-cost-of-up-front-mortgage-insurance-premiums.html

State Street Investigated by New York, U.S. on Foreign Exchange

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-27/state-street-investigated-by-new-york-u-s-on-foreign-exchange.html

Buffett Says Banks Victimized by Excesses of Evicted Homeowners

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-27/buffett-says-banks-victimized-by-excesses-of-evicted-homeowners.html

A Ponzi Scheme That Never Gets Dull

Scott Rothstein relied on bribes and a “rock star” lifestyle to keep his $1.2 billion scam rolling along

http://www.businessweek.com/finance/a-ponzi-scheme-that-never-gets-dull-02272012.html

Why investors should be prepared for violent market swings

http://www.firstpost.com/investing/why-investors-should-be-prepared-for-violent-market-swings-224875.html

Silver faces last hurdle before blast off, but there’s a caveat

http://www.firstpost.com/investing/silver-faces-last-hurdle-before-blast-off-but-theres-a-caveat-224862.html

Occupy London protest camp eviction under way

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17187180

U.S. intelligence agencies agree: no evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons program

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/02/us-intelligence-agencies-agree-no.html

MSM says just a small amount of children killed by Drone attacks… So its OK?

http://deadlinelive.info/2012/02/26/msm-says-just-a-small-amount-of-children-killed-by-drone-attacks-so-its-ok/

 

Wikileaks Reveals Possible Israeli Covert

Action Campaign Against Iran

http://www.worldjewishdaily.com/wikileaks-iran.php

Hillary Clinton Urges Muslims To ‘Not Pay Attention’ To Republicans

http://nation.foxnews.com/muslim/2012/02/26/hilary-clinton-muslims-dont-pay-attention-republicans#ixzz1ndVTbkxn

Hauling hedge funds into the 21st century

By Jay Eisenhofer, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/212827-jay-eisenhofer-grant-a-eisenhofer-pa

Comprehensive approach is the only way to control gas prices

By Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii)

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-a-environment/212773-rep-colleen-hanabusa-d-hawaii

H.R. 7 – more than just roads and bridges

By Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.)

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/212751-rep-randy-hultgren-r-ill

Protecting the Homeland, Safeguarding Privacy

By Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.)

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/212531-rep-patrick-meehan-r-pa

Fiddlers, foreign oil and failed policy

By Lt. Col. Steve Russell, US Army (Ret.)
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-a-environment/212487–lt-col-steve-russell-us-army-ret

Anonymous targets lawmakers for defeat

By Brendan Sasso

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/212793-anonymous-targets-lawmakers-for-defeat

News bites: WikiLeaks publishes intelligence firm’s emails By Brendan Sasso

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/212685-news-bites-wikileaks-publishes-intelligence-firms-emails

FTC chief: Google forcing consumers to make ‘brutal choice’ with privacy changes

By Brendan Sasso

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/212741-ftc-chief-google-forcing-consumers-to-make-brutal-choice-with-privacy-changes

George Osborne: UK has run out of money

The Government ‘has run out of money’ and cannot afford debt-fuelled tax cuts or extra spending, George Osborne has admitted.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9107485/George-Osborne-UK-has-run-out-of-money.html