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So the United States doesn't lead the world in total numbers.
LOL. Sure it does. How about reading your article before making up stuff?
China = 19 million obese
U.S. = 72 million obese
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All that change has consequences. The Chinese are getting bigger, too, and fast. "The New England Journal of Medicine" reports that 19 million people in China are now obese
I think America leads the world in (legal) drug consumption, using natural resources, energy, and we're pretty damn near the top in creating pollution.
A few years back if anyone was asked to make a list of where America led the World, we could probably have no problem filling one or two pages.
America was looked upon as the Country of innovation, industry, free spirit and wealth.
We used to look at American Cars, buildings, products, food, music, clothing, health care, space programme even toys, comic books etc etc etc etc with awe.........and we knew more new ideas were on the way.
Today America makes nothing and has lost all of its innovation and the spirit to move forward.
Can anyone tell me what America leads the World with .....
NO partisan political B/S please....... just where do we now lead the world?
Too much spending a la social programs and military budget, not enough spent on education, technology, and scientific research.
Today, we are competing with countries that are willing to look forward, demonstrate pragmatism and have emphasized in key sectors that promote growth: the human resource. For most of the twentieth century, we benefitted with pretty much a lack of it, except on the incentive Cold War offered: A dependency on Military Industrial Complex. A consequence of that was drowning self with the idea of being the global police, engaging in matters we should have stayed out, along with the desire to promote oil addiction (which only provided another incentive to the whims of military industrial complex).
Japan and then Germany, for example, demonstrated the desire to rise, and succeeded. Brazil, China and India moved from developing to impact players beginning in the 1990s and continue to be mostly pragmatic about future growth. And we continue to glorify the past so much so that we want to go backwards. We spend more time worrying about political strategies and racial issues and blaming illegal immigration, and English for national language, and prefer achieving political goals and victories over what is right for the country and its people.
In short: We’re doomed. At least in the near future. We will eventually learn, I'm sure, but not before getting kicked in the rear... a lot and a lot of pain. And here is an example...
As if China, India, Germany, Brazil, Japan, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore... have little government.
Couldn't have said it better! I'm with EinsteinsGhost, it's like we are an Autistic country, unable to be social and smart in a narrow way, yet we look from the outside we should be able to function.
We just can't compete.
It's like the old football star hanging at the bar, fat, sad and angry, retelling that same old touchdown story. That was then, this is now regardless of how many times you tell people we use to be the best, they only care about now, and the future.
I have no idea if we can change it, it's like we were just born this way.
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