yeah, america does kick the crap out of other countries, in so many ways...here are 27 of them..
1) America is number one in millionaires.
2) America is number one in billionaires.
3) America is number one in military spending.
4) America is number one in firearm deaths.
5) America is number one in beef production.
6) America is number one in per capita energy use.
7) America is number one in carbon dioxide emissions (more than Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Germany, Italy, Mexico and the United Kingdom combined).
8) America is number one in total and per capita municipal waste (720 kilograms per person per year).
9) America is number one in hazardous waste produced (by a factor of more than twenty times our nearest competitor, Germany).
10) America is number one in oil consumption.
11) America is number one in natural gas consumption.
12) America is number one in the least amount of tax revenue generated (as a percentage of gross domestic product).
13) America is number one in the least amount of federal and state government expenditure (as a percentage of GDP).
14) America is number one in budget deficit (as a percentage of GDP).
15) America is number one in daily per capita consumption of calories.
16) America is number one in lowest voter turnout.
17) America is number one in number of political parties represented in the lower or single house.
18) America is number one in recorded rapes (by a factor of almost three times our nearest competitor - Canada).
19) America is number one in injuries and deaths from road accidents (almost twice as many as runner-up Canada).
20) America is number one in births to mothers under the age of twenty (again, more than twice as many as Canada, and nearly twice as many as number two New Zealand).
21) America is number one in the number of international human rights treaties not signed.
22) America is number one among countries in the United Nations with a legally constituted government to not ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
23) America is number one in number of known executions of child offenders.
24) America is number one in likelihood of children under the age of fifteen to die from gunfire.
25) America is number one in likelihood of children under the age of fifteen to commit suicide with a gun.
26) America is number one in lowest eighth-grade math scores.
27) America is number one in becoming the first society in history in which the poorest group of the population are children.
oh to be american...
