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The New Definition Of “American Exceptionalism”

USA!!! USA!!! We’ve featured Michael Snyder‘s stuff on FITS before because we believe the guy to be a genius.  And a prophet.  He’s blunt, but his posts are always chock full of data supporting his core beliefs. And what are those? Well, the names of Snyder’s top two blogs are Economic…

USA!!! USA!!!

We’ve featured Michael Snyder‘s stuff on FITS before because we believe the guy to be a genius.  And a prophet.  He’s blunt, but his posts are always chock full of data supporting his core beliefs.

And what are those?

Well, the names of Snyder’s top two blogs are Economic Collapse and End of the American Dream, so yeah … it’s safe to say he’s not one of the “rainbows and unicorns” big government propagandists.

Anyway, this week Snyder tackled the topic of

“Is the United States an ‘exceptional’ nation?” he muses.  “Well, the facts show that we are, but not for the reasons that you may think.”

He then proceeds to launch into thirty-six categories in which America leads the world.

Ready?

Here they are …

#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.

#4 The 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.

#12 It turns out that Americans are very good at locking people away in prison.  At 716 per 100,000 members of the population, the United States has the highest incarceration rate on the entire planet by a very wide margin.

#13 Approximately one-fourth of the entire global prison population is in the United States.

#14 In 2014, police in the United States killed 1,100 people.  During that same year, police in Canada killed 14 people, police in China killed 12 people and police in Germany didn’t kill anyone at all.

#15 One recently published study found that one out of every six young Americans has stolen something during the past year.

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

#17 According to Fox News, approximately 70 percent of married men in the United States admit to having cheated on their wives.

#18 Americans spend far more on health care than anyone else in the world, and yet we only rank 26th in life expectancy and our entire health care system has been transformed into a giant money making scam.

#19 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and an astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.

#20 According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 31 percent of all food in the United States gets wasted.  In case you were wondering, that amounts to approximately 133 billion pounds of food a year.

#21 In 2013, women earned 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees that were awarded that year in the United States.

#22 A survey conducted by the Barna Group discovered that 77 percent of Christian men in America in the 18 to 30-year-old age bracket view pornography at least monthly.

#23 There are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.

#24 70 percent of Americans do not “feel engaged or inspired at their jobs”.

#25 When LBJ’s “War on Poverty” began, less than 10 percent of all U.S. children were growing up in single parent households.  Today, that number has skyrocketed to 33 percent.

#26 In 1950, less than 5 percent of all babies in America were born to unmarried parents.  Today, that number is over 40 percent.

#27 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are 20 million new cases of sexually-transmitted disease in the United States each year.

#28 Today, the United States has the highest STD infection rate in the entire industrialized world.

#29 According to a survey that was just released within the last 30 days, only 29 percent of Americans want to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood even after all of the shocking undercover videos that were released this year.

#30 America has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet.

#31 Doctors in the United States write more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants each year.

#32 One survey of 50-year-old men in the U.S. found that only 12 percent of them said that they were “very happy”.

#33 Every single year, the United States has the largest trade deficit in the entire world by a very wide margin.  But most Americans still don’t seem concerned that thousands of businesses and millions of good jobs have been leaving our country.

#34 As you read this article, there are 102.6 million working age Americans that do not have a job.

#35 We are supposed to have a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”, but only 25 percent of all Americans know how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20 percent of all Americans know how many U.S. senators there are in total.

#36 On average, we have been stealing more than 100 million dollars from future generations of Americans every single hour of every single day since Barack Obama entered the White House.

Say it with us, everybody: USA!!! USA!!

Now cue the “love it or leave it” commenters …

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64 comments

Soft Sigh from Hell October 14, 2015 at 5:51 pm

I blame Bush!

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Sic Semper Tyrannis October 14, 2015 at 5:57 pm

Ditto

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Frank October 14, 2015 at 6:40 pm

It’s been a loooooong slog crawling out of the flaming wreckage that lil Bush left us in. The next Democrat president will have an easier job getting us back were we used to be.

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Terry October 14, 2015 at 6:48 pm

Well he did not help when he doubled down on trickle down. Cut taxes on the rich, cut benefits for the middle class; then borrow and spend money the middle class will have to pay back. That is the Bush economy in a nutshell.

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Frank October 14, 2015 at 6:54 pm

But, he gave me a $300 check. That really helped in the long run. Especailly after he destroyed the economy several years later.

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Cream Pie October 14, 2015 at 10:55 pm

I ejaculate on bush!

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RogueElephant October 15, 2015 at 9:09 am

Might as well. Everyone else dose. LOL

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Soft Sigh from Hell October 14, 2015 at 5:55 pm

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

How could this possibly be anywhere remotely close to true?

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 6:07 pm

i hope it is true, and it would be a great thing, think of all the money trickling down all over the place

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Since The Eighties... October 14, 2015 at 6:10 pm

Ask Ron Reagan

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Terry October 14, 2015 at 6:14 pm

Because it is. You should have listened to the debate last night, You would know this. Wealth inequality in the US has reached the level of the years of the robber barons. Since 1980 90% of all gains in income have gone to the top 10% of Americans. In the US today the combined net worth of the top 10% is almost as much as the remaining 90%. All of this has largely happened since 1980. If you doubt that ask your buddy Ben Carson. He said the same thing.
What do you think the wealth disparity complaints are all about?

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Soft Sigh from Hell October 14, 2015 at 6:19 pm

The middle class is so much larger in proportion in the US than in many other nations. How possibly can the claim literally be true? “Anywhere else”

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 6:24 pm

http://billmoyers.com/2015/01/05/top-10-charts-2014/
read it and weep for the middle class

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guest October 14, 2015 at 6:24 pm

Click on the highlighted area and read the article. What is considered middle class here isn’t the same thing as in say, Egypt (only 5% are middle class).

To adjust for the different income and wealth levels around the world, there’s no single definition of “middle class,” but rather a big range. Just $13,662 in assets will get you into the middle class in India, but you’d need at least $50,000 to be considered for the category in the United States.

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Terry October 14, 2015 at 6:34 pm

Well of course. What is Middle class for a nation has to be relative. If the richest people in India make 50% of what the richest people in the US make, they are still the wealthy by India standards. You can quibble if you want, but what they are measuring is wealth disparity. Who controls the nations wealth.
What SSFH, is amazed at is that his perception that America has a larger middle class than anyone else is wrong. If we break any society into Rich, Middle Class and Poor, America is not faring well. The middle class in other countries, particular the Western Democracies other than the US, are doing much better than our middle class..
If our economy was working the way it did for most the 20th century, the wealth of the nation would be more widely disbursed, instead of being concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. The continued concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands and the shrinking middle class is what this shows.

guest October 14, 2015 at 6:40 pm

I am not disagreeing with you. Just pointed out to the poster the differences in middle class around the globe.

Jack October 14, 2015 at 6:35 pm

You believe that because of who you listen to.

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Slartibartfast October 14, 2015 at 7:14 pm

Please explain, then, the admission of error by Keynes in his distribution model, which he expressed just before he died.

The Buzzman October 14, 2015 at 9:34 pm

People also listen to who they listen to because of what they believe.

Slartibartfast October 14, 2015 at 7:12 pm

I heard a lot of re-writing of history. Is that what you meant? Fascism will never work in the future, just as it is not working, now.

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Terry October 15, 2015 at 11:21 am

I am not going to respond to the Nazi, crap. It just shows you are a party of duped old men. Because the only people I know who sound like Nazis are Republicans.

But I will say oligarchy sucked for the vast majority of Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries . That it sucks for most Russians today, and America is rapidly becoming an oligarchy again. So there is a lot more risk of America turning into Modern Russia than Nazi Germany.

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Slartibartfast October 15, 2015 at 12:50 pm

And Democrats and GOP elitists are aiding in the growth of that oligarchy. However democrats are turning Oligarchy into Fascism. It’s an easy step. Look at Rome, ca 44BCE.

Jack October 14, 2015 at 6:18 pm

Fox, Beck, Rush, etc didn’t prepare you for that one did they?

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Ronald Reagan October 15, 2015 at 10:18 am

Hey Georgie, can I borrow that Mission Accomplished banner of yours?

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Bible Thumper October 14, 2015 at 5:58 pm

Well sure if you want to look at the bad side.

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 6:18 pm

note to Thumper, probably a good idea not to mention barns in a post, lets just say it is leaving the barn door open for some pretty sharp zingers.

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Bible Thumper October 14, 2015 at 7:08 pm

That’s good advice from someone called Stumpknocker. I’m not sure that there are many left who know what a barn is, much less been in one.

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 7:14 pm

really sad too, playing in a hay barn is more fun than any video game ever made

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The Buzzman October 14, 2015 at 9:31 pm

Yep. True when you’re a kid, and innoscent. Then whenTrace Adkins – Brown Chicken Brown Cow – YouTube
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzQ4qdlhurc

huh? October 14, 2015 at 5:59 pm

This is suppose to be a bad thing?
#21 In 2013, women earned 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees that were awarded that year in the United States.

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They making more $ too October 14, 2015 at 6:49 pm

Yes. That’s threatening to woman hating ‘comservatives’. Wait they find out how many of them are……*gasp* MINORITY women!!!!

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 6:12 pm

after living in sc for most of my life, that list looks pretty damn good to me, what is he whining about?

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huh? October 14, 2015 at 6:14 pm

Believe I would fact check this claim. The person who wrote the article linked no source. She has no credentials, other than she started a love advice blog because her husband cheated on her.

#17 According to Fox News, approximately 70 percent of married men in the United States admit to having cheated on their wives.

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Limbaughsaphatkhunt October 14, 2015 at 6:25 pm

“Where my country gone?”

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Fart Blossom October 14, 2015 at 6:47 pm

Wasn’t Rush supposed to of expatriated himself by now?

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 6:48 pm

he did try, he got busted with a bottle of viagra and sent home

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Fart Blossom October 14, 2015 at 6:52 pm

I’m sure he had his ‘housekeeper’ go get him some more pills to ease the pain of staying in the USA. Wait! Rush fits nearly everyone of those categories above! Fat sick lazy white men are going to destroy America, I guess…

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 6:54 pm

the really sick thing is he was going to a third world country, the only reason i can see him doing that would be to sexually exploit dirt poor local girls

Fart Blossom October 14, 2015 at 6:56 pm

Bingo! He really hates women. Save him the air fair.

FatPoker October 14, 2015 at 8:32 pm

Boys, dummie.

the dem barnyard and ZOO October 14, 2015 at 6:59 pm

Hillary and Michelle both look like men-or some kind of animal. Your point?

Limbaughsaphatkhunt October 14, 2015 at 10:04 pm

Dude…it was Oxycodone.

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Limbaughsaphatkhunt October 14, 2015 at 6:29 pm

‘Murica

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huh? October 14, 2015 at 6:30 pm

This is based on individuals who have TRIED pot or coke in their lifetimes.
America has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet.

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 6:31 pm

we might, legalizing pot would remedy that over night

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Derp October 14, 2015 at 6:46 pm

No. Legalizing ALL drugs would get rid of that…..the category of statistic, that is.

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huh? October 14, 2015 at 6:36 pm

This list is so misleading. According to the source, 49% said they were generally happy. The survey was done in 2010, I’m shocked with the state of the economy they found that many happy 50 year olds.

#32 One survey of 50-year-old men in the U.S. found that only 12 percent of them said that they were “very happy”.

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 6:44 pm

that seems about right, only 12 percent of men over 50 are frigging hard bodied chics

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NuttersNews October 14, 2015 at 6:44 pm

The guy has a blog about a coming ‘end of America’. He knows how to keep the clicks coming from Libertarian Doomtard preppers. They live for this type of crap.

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Limbaughsaphatkhunt October 14, 2015 at 6:56 pm

Look at the comments on this thread, up till NOW.American hating socialists that seek not only the destruction of this country but the destruction of communities and families as well in this country.

Filthy perverts. America has rejected you.

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 6:59 pm

i’m an all american pervert and you are full of shit

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guest October 14, 2015 at 7:00 pm

your downloads tell us that.

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stumpknocker October 14, 2015 at 7:01 pm

pretty cool are’nt they

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Limbaughsaphatkhunt October 14, 2015 at 10:03 pm

Folks…we have an obvious impostor here. You’re not getting the real, 100%, genuine article like you do with me..this douche has made in Malaysia written all over him.

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Slartibartfast October 14, 2015 at 7:06 pm

(Sweeney) TODD: AH, these are desperate times,
Mrs. Lovett, and desperate measures are called for!

LOVETT: Here we are, now! Hot out of the oven!

TODD: What is that?

LOVETT: It’s priest. Have a little priest.

TODD: Is it really good?

LOVETT: Sir, it’s too good, at least!
Then again, they don’t commit sins of the flesh,
So it’s pretty fresh.

TODD: Awful lot of fat.

LOVETT: Only where it sat.

TODD: Haven’t you got poet, or something like that?

LOVETT: No, y’see, the trouble with poet is
‘Ow do you know it’s deceased?
Try the priest!

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Soft Sigh from Hell October 14, 2015 at 8:24 pm

I watched the DVD a year or so ago.
I loved this song.

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burningspear October 14, 2015 at 7:43 pm

Amerikkka was founded on genocide & racism. It has morphed into a Zionist experiment of world domination doomed to failure.This is a fact, there is no doubt.

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SteelPulse October 14, 2015 at 7:48 pm

Stay at the conspiracy sight you came from.

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The Buzzman October 14, 2015 at 9:24 pm

SITE, pogo, for God’s sake! It is spelled S-I-T-E!

Ignorant dipshit.

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Thomas October 14, 2015 at 8:26 pm

Mike Snyder has a few college degrees but knows very little.

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mamatiger92 October 15, 2015 at 8:56 am

How is #21 a negative?

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Tazmaniac October 15, 2015 at 9:31 am

The whole farce is for targeted click bait and comments between the far edges to get on here and call each other names while spouting cut and paste talking points from kool aide websites with no original thoughts. Working perfectly it seems.

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RogueElephant October 15, 2015 at 9:16 am

This article proves once again that the Great Society was the biggest mistake in history. Every statistic goes to hell after it was started.

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