50
Facts That Show How Far America Has Fallen In This Generation
It
almost seems fitting to follow-up the G20 and central banker summit with an
article about what has happened to the American Dream, doesn’t it? -LW
By Michael
Snyder, on September 18th, 2014
What has
happened to America? Please show these numbers to anyone that does not
believe that the United States is in decline. It is time for all of us to
humble ourselves and face the reality of what has happened to our once great
nation. For those of us that love America, it is heartbreaking to watch
the foundations of our society rot and decay in thousands of different
ways. The following are 50 facts that show how far America has fallen in
this generation, but the truth is that this list could have been far, far
longer…
- According to a
survey that was just conducted, only 36 percent of
all Americans can name the three branches of government.
- 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.
- Even if you
include same-sex couples in the numbers, the marriage rate in the United
States is at a 93 year low.
- For the first time ever,
single Americans make up more than half the U.S. population.
- 31.1 percent of
American young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently
living with their parents.
- One out of every ten teen
girls in America engages in “self-harm”. Cutting and burning are the
most common forms that this “self-harm” takes.
- One survey found
that 85 percent of
all young men in America and almost half of
all young women in America watch porn at least once a month.
- A different
survey discovered that 64 percent of
American men of all ages view pornography at least once per month.
- The Internet can
be used for great good, but it can also be used for great evil. It
is being reported that 83 percent of
U.S. boys and 57 percent of
U.S. girls have been exposed to group sex while on the Internet.
- One survey
discovered that 25 percent of
all employees that have Internet access in the United States visit
sex websites while they are at work.
- There is an
epidemic of porn watching among federal employees. For example, one
Treasury Department worker said that he viewed 13,000 pornographic images
within the span of six weeks because he did “not have enough work to do“.
- An
astounding 30 percent of
all Internet traffic now goes to adult websites.
- Right now, 30 million Americans are
on antidepressants.
- Americans account
for about five percent of the global population, but we buy more than 50 percent of
the pharmaceutical drugs.
- Americans consume
a whopping 80 percent of
all prescription painkillers.
- According to a
study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly70
percent of all Americans are on
at least one prescription drug, and 20 percent of all Americans are on at
least five prescription drugs.
- Approximately 60 million Americans have
a problem with alcohol addiction.
- Heroin traffic in
New York City is at a 20 year high.
- Of all the major
industrialized nations, America is the most obese.
Mexico is #.
- Back in
1962, only 13 percent of
all Americans were obese, but it is being projected that 42 percent of
all Americans could be obese by the year 2030.
- 70 percent of
Americans do not “feel engaged or inspired at their jobs”.
- 40 percent of
all workers in the United States actually make less than what a full-time
minimum wage worker made back in 1968 after you account for inflation.
- Small business
ownership in the United States is at the lowest level that has ever been
recorded.
- It is hard to
believe, but 56 percent of
all Americans now have “subprime credit”.
- The United States
has the most lawyers per capita in
the entire world.
- The United States
has the highest
incarceration rateand the largest total prison population in
the entire world by a wide margin.
- While Barack
Obama has been in the White House, the U.S. national debt has grown by more than 7 trillion
dollars.
- During the Obama
years, sexual assaults in the U.S. military have soared to an all-time high,
and most of the assaults have been male on male.
- According
to one absolutely shocking study,
22 military veterans kill themselves in the United States every single
day.
- The top Democrat
in the U.S. House of Representatives is Nancy Pelosi. The top
Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives is John Boehner.
More often than not, they seem to be working together.
Is this really the best that America can do?
- There are more than 3 million reports of
child abuse in the United States every single year.
- At this point,
approximately one out of every three
children in the United States
lives in a home without a father.
- 18 percent of
all women in the United States say that they have been raped at some point
in their lives.
- It is estimated
that one out of every four girls
will be sexually abused before they become adults.
- Approximately
one-third of the entire population of the United States (110 million people)
currently has a sexually transmitted disease according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
- Every single
year, there are 20 million new
STD cases in America.
- America has the
highest STD infection rate in the entire
industrialized world.
- Americans in the
15 to 24-year-old age group account forabout 50 percent of
all new STD cases each year.
- It costs our
nation approximately 16 billion dollars a yearto
treat our sexually transmitted diseases.
- According to one
survey, 24 percent of
all U.S. teens that have STDs say that they still have unprotected sex.
- In the United
States today, more than half of
all couples “move in together” before they get married.
- For couples that
have children that are just “living together”, two-thirds of them split up by the
time they have a child turn 10 years of age.
- For women under
the age of 30 in the United States, more than half of all
babies are being born out of wedlock.
- According to a
study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately two-thirds of
all Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket have engaged in oral
sex.
- Suicide has now
actually surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of
“injury death” in the United States.
- In a massacre
that is almost unspeakable, more than 56 million
American babies have been slaughtered in
this country since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973.
- Approximately 47 percent of
the women that get an abortion each year in the United States have also
had a previous abortion.
- The number of
American babies killed by abortion each yearis
roughly equal to the number of U.S.
military deaths that have occurred in all of the wars that the United
States has ever fought combined.
- About one-third of
all American women will have had an abortion by the age of 45.
- The United States
has the highest abortion rate in the western world.
