The truth of the matter is that America sucks in many ways

[talksalot]

My caveat is that America is also great in many ways. The best in the world for a few things.


However, a lot of things about this country really suck.

1) Our infrastructure system is one of the worst in the developed world.

2) Our child poverty rate is the worst among developed nations.

3) Our GDP spending per person on healthcare is high in comparison to other nations.

4) Our healthcare system is ranked among the worst of developed nations due to its high cost to consumers and ineligibility for millions of others.

5) Trump - an unprecedented embarrassment to governments everywhere - will be president. We are the laughing stock of the world (note: I wouldn't say this if ANY other republican had won instead).

6) We are the only country on earth that has an incoming government that denies the existence of climate change.

7) Water supplies across the country have dangerous amounts of lead in the water. It's the emergency that no one in the mainstream media will cover.

8) This country has the widest income disparity than any developed country on earth.

America kind of blows. The bad slightly outweighs all the good.

Large-scale, efficient infrastructure is a must-have for any economy to function competitively.

And that infrastructure needs to be maintained and even updated if a country wants its economy to run smoothly.

However, over the last few years since financial crisis, the infrastructure quality deteriorated in many developed countries, including the US, Germany, and France, according to the recent report by the World Economic Forum.

As a result, they're not leading the way in terms of infrastructure quality.

We took a closer look at the 11 countries with the highest quality infrastructure, according to data in the WEF's report. Check them out below:
The 11 countries with the best infrastructure around the world

 

[ScienceRocks]

I declare our founding father's were average strictly. Slave owners some were...cowards I call them.. Don't lime it? Deport me....go for it.

They lived before the lessons of industrialization and they had no way to see the huge changes that layed before them. Sadly, we still use something from that time and it just doesn't work well anymore as a tool of democratic world leadership or make much sense.

France, Germany and most of Europe are now far more democratic.

 

[initforme]

Ohhhhh but they were great....lmao

 

[sartre play]

I have been working my ass off for over 35 years, enough with the losers and lazy lard asses mooching off me. In fact don't get a job, get two jobs stop embarrassing real Americans.

None of that changes what the US economy is today. It isn't what it used to be. Low wage jobs greatly outnumber higher wage jobs.

Boo hoo life is hard boo hoo. Holy shit what are they teaching kids in school these days.

See you're so caught up in wanting to feel manly and superior to today's "snowflakes" that you're willfully ignoring the truth of today's economy. This has little to do with people "going soft" on self-sufficiency. Obviously it matters that we live in an economy where wages are way behind on inflation. That means millions of people have NO CHOICE but to accept shitty paying jobs.

I had no trouble at all making gobs of money all through Bush and Obama, but then I work hard. Hell its not rocket science. Go curl up in your safe space.

Christ my point is that a few decades ago, it was much easier for people to establish successful financial livelihoods.

this is very true. but tough to admit.

 

[The Great Goose]

Australia doesn't.

Australia is rated higher than the USA on the Heritage Index of Economic Freedom. It's not more leftwing.

Well why is life so much better here?

It's not. Have you ever been to Australia?

I'm there on the odd occasion.... I live in Australia

I've been there. Seems like paradise to me. Your standard of living is higher than ours.

That's what I thought. Then my car broke and I lost the power to get to beach every day

 

[whitehall]

At least we didn't hear the same old crap about how great the Scandanavian countries are. The fact of the matter is that the United States supports and feeds and offers free medical care to more illegal aliens than the entire population of the Scandanavian countries. Why do people crawl across the freaking desert and stow away on vermin infested ships and spend their last dimes to get to the United States? Because whiny neo-socialists think we have the "widest income disparity" and "our alleged 2nd rate infrastructure" ? They come to the United States because the greatest Country in the world offers the freedom to get rich if you work hard enough. The U.S. invented the concept of government of the people and no other country in the world has a Bill of Rights guaranteed in the Constitution. The industrial might and courage of the United States saved thousand year old regimes and countries and the entire freaking free world from tyranny twice during the bloody 20th century before the Country was even two hundred years old. It's a shame that ungrateful hypocrite victims of the last fifty years of the liberal education system don't appreciate what a gift they have in living in the greatest Country and the last super-power in the world.

 

[initforme]

Last great superpower in the world. I'm 80 years old...lived in the us my whole life...please describe how its super...blame the education system. Coward.

 

[LeftofLeft]

My caveat is that America is also great in many ways. The best in the world for a few things.


However, a lot of things about this country really suck.

1) Our infrastructure system is one of the worst in the developed world.

2) Our child poverty rate is the worst among developed nations.

3) Our GDP spending per person on healthcare is high in comparison to other nations.

4) Our healthcare system is ranked among the worst of developed nations due to its high cost to consumers and ineligibility for millions of others.

5) Trump - an unprecedented embarrassment to governments everywhere - will be president. We are the laughing stock of the world (note: I wouldn't say this if ANY other republican had won instead).

6) We are the only country on earth that has an incoming government that denies the existence of climate change.

7) Water supplies across the country have dangerous amounts of lead in the water. It's the emergency that no one in the mainstream media will cover.

8) This country has the widest income disparity than any developed country on earth.

America kind of blows. The bad slightly outweighs all the good.

Where does USA rank among countries worldwide on where people want to immigrate? If the bad outweighs the good, in your mind, it's time for you to haul ass to Canada.

 

[Yousaidwhat]

My caveat is that America is also great in many ways. The best in the world for a few things.


However, a lot of things about this country really suck.

1) Our infrastructure system is one of the worst in the developed world.

2) Our child poverty rate is the worst among developed nations.

3) Our GDP spending per person on healthcare is high in comparison to other nations.

4) Our healthcare system is ranked among the worst of developed nations due to its high cost to consumers and ineligibility for millions of others.

5) Trump - an unprecedented embarrassment to governments everywhere - will be president. We are the laughing stock of the world (note: I wouldn't say this if ANY other republican had won instead).

6) We are the only country on earth that has an incoming government that denies the existence of climate change.

7) Water supplies across the country have dangerous amounts of lead in the water. It's the emergency that no one in the mainstream media will cover.

8) This country has the widest income disparity than any developed country on earth.

America kind of blows. The bad slightly outweighs all the good.

Nice rant. Or whine.

I'm waiting for the punchline.

 

[Dr Grump]

Bullshit. Your last point is absolute horseshit. Look to our neighbor to the south, Slim has more wealth than almost the entire rest of Mexico. When you make an error that huge, it's hard to take anything you say seriously.

Trust you to take his point literally. I'm guessing he meant - and any normal, right thinking person would have taken it this way - that overall the disparity is huge and he would be correct...

 

[Dr Grump]

It is funny that Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and most of Europe are all far more to the left economically but in many ways rank higher in these areas. Intimating the third world isn't a good idea.

They all have a lower standard of living, by any measure, nimrod.

Nope. USA ranks 8th behind 7 'socialist' European countries.

Standard of Living by Country

 

[Dr Grump]

Oh and quality of life standards. Look how piss poor the US rates for health care and safety. Yeah, brilliant health system. And going by the safety rating, yeah, more guns work - not..

Quality of Life Index by Country 2016 Mid Year

 

[Dr Grump]

Country be much better off if all the stains would leave.

How about all the alt-right neocon whackos all move to Texas. You can have your paradise, and the rest of the normal people in the US can have theirs. There is a caveat. Like most blue states you can't leech off the US for more funds when you run out.

 

[Crixus]

My caveat is that America is also great in many ways. The best in the world for a few things.


However, a lot of things about this country really suck.

1) Our infrastructure system is one of the worst in the developed world.

2) Our child poverty rate is the worst among developed nations.

3) Our GDP spending per person on healthcare is high in comparison to other nations.

4) Our healthcare system is ranked among the worst of developed nations due to its high cost to consumers and ineligibility for millions of others.

5) Trump - an unprecedented embarrassment to governments everywhere - will be president. We are the laughing stock of the world (note: I wouldn't say this if ANY other republican had won instead).

6) We are the only country on earth that has an incoming government that denies the existence of climate change.

7) Water supplies across the country have dangerous amounts of lead in the water. It's the emergency that no one in the mainstream media will cover.

8) This country has the widest income disparity than any developed country on earth.

America kind of blows. The bad slightly outweighs all the good.

If it sucks so bad then why does everyone want to move here? Never heard of anyone going to Mexico for a heart transplant for instance, but thousands of Mexicans come here to give birth to their children. I have a Canadian friend who came to Houston of all places for a prosthetic limb. Healthcare is free up there why didn't he just do it there?

 

[Maryland Patriot]

1) Our infrastructure system is one of the worst in the developed world.
because it requires revenue to repair these things, thats money that our government has been forced to take from the associated funds to pay for social programs
2) Our child poverty rate is the worst among developed nations.
mainly because we have so many people that refuse to take responsibility for their famiiies, and to make it even worse, we refuse to close our border to the poverty stricken uneducated filth that only helps to bring our numbers down. Think how many non citizen children are failing in our schools because the parents forced them into a country where they cant communicate
3) Our GDP spending per person on healthcare is high in comparison to other nations.
Again, or numbers would be much lower if we did not have to pay for the illegals health care when they entered our country in the dark of night. It falls again on personal responsibility

4) Our healthcare system is ranked among the worst of developed nations due to its high cost to consumers and ineligibility for millions of others.
Nobody is without care in this country, if ours is the worst, then it makes no sense that the majority of innovations come from the U.S, it makes no sense that people are coming to the U.S for care when their own countries fail them. Innovation is not free, we could certainly bring this number in line with others if we would only stop funding the science that is involved in R&D
5) Trump - an unprecedented embarrassment to governments everywhere - will be president. We are the laughing stock of the world (note: I wouldn't say this if ANY other republican had won instead). Opinion, you are claiming him to be an embarrassment before he even takes office, are you psychic? after 8 years of the world watching the U.S apologize for everything and kiss the ass of the very terrorists that want to take us down, Im having a difficult time trying to see where Trump could be more of an embarrassment than the cowardly pussy that has occupied the office for the last 8 years

6) We are the only country on earth that has an incoming government that denies the existence of climate change. Lets look at that for what it is. We are the only country on earth that has a government smart enough to realize that there could be reasons beyond mans control that are causing global warming. The problem is that if the truth were to get out we would find that there is nothing we can do to stop a natural cycle in the earths climate and the chaos would be catastrophic.Just like the new ice age scare of the 70s, science and government jump on the easiest answers that come up. To totally ignore that there might be other causes would be irresponsible at best

7) Water supplies across the country have dangerous amounts of lead in the water. It's the emergency that no one in the mainstream media will cover.
And yet the U.S still has some of the cleanest drinking water in the world, lead is natural occurring and can be easily removed from potable water, the same goes for Iron, copper and even radium, all easily removed. There is not a house in this country that could take the water coming in and make it cleaner than bottle water for under 6K, much less in most cases. People once again are depending on the government to do everything for them.

8) This country has the widest income disparity than any developed country on earth.
And as long as we have a system that allows people to succeed based on their own initiative, we will continue to see that. when we keep letting millions of ignorant uneducated pieces of shit to sneak in and stay we can only expect to see that number grows

America kind of blows. The bad slightly outweighs all the good.
If you and everyone else that thought like you were to pack up and leave this country, the easily fixable issues that you brought up would correct themselves just as fast as you all left.
You are the reason behind this. our schools will never get better as long as we keep reducing the requirements in order to make it fair to Toneshia and Tyrell. You all want to reduce the requirements and then turn around and complain that the product of those schools is not adequate. again, your own fault. America isnt what blows its people with your mindset that blow Please leave so the rest of us can bring back a United States that actually works.

 

[Montrovant]

My caveat is that America is also great in many ways. The best in the world for a few things.


However, a lot of things about this country really suck.

1) Our infrastructure system is one of the worst in the developed world.

2) Our child poverty rate is the worst among developed nations.

3) Our GDP spending per person on healthcare is high in comparison to other nations.

4) Our healthcare system is ranked among the worst of developed nations due to its high cost to consumers and ineligibility for millions of others.

5) Trump - an unprecedented embarrassment to governments everywhere - will be president. We are the laughing stock of the world (note: I wouldn't say this if ANY other republican had won instead).

6) We are the only country on earth that has an incoming government that denies the existence of climate change.

7) Water supplies across the country have dangerous amounts of lead in the water. It's the emergency that no one in the mainstream media will cover.

8) This country has the widest income disparity than any developed country on earth.

America kind of blows. The bad slightly outweighs all the good.

So, you're a leftist retard spewing bullshit.

How unique..

You know I'm right.

I know that the hate list you cut and pasted is utterly stupid.

"1) Our infrastructure system is one of the worst in the developed world."

What a retarded fucking lie - I mean even as you Communists go, that is absurd shit.

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Fact is, we have the most robust infrastructure in the world. Soros and the jackles who think for you are lying, because they know that you're stupid as a fucking brick and will never question this shit the spoon feed you.

"2) Our child poverty rate is the worst among developed nations."

Wow, what do we even say about this kind of fucking lie?

The Communists over at NeverThinkShithead polished this little turd, that you suck on like a popsicle.

So how do these lying cocksuckers defend this?

"h UNICEF defines as living in a household that earns less than half of the national median."

Wait a fucking minute, so the Soros scum are saying that a child in a household making $30,000 per year in the USA is WORSE off than than a child in a household in France making $6,000 a year? Because the median in the USA is 5 times greater?

Really? You lying fucks REALLY pull this shit? Why of course you do, you're scumbags without a shred of integrity bent on the destruction of Western Civilization.

"3) Our GDP spending per person on healthcare is high in comparison to other nations."

Who gives a fuck?

We have the most advanced medical care on the globe.

"4) Our healthcare system is ranked among the worst of developed nations due to its high cost to consumers and ineligibility for millions of others."

Ranked by whom? Communist fuckwads? We have the most advanced medical care on the planet, by a huge margin.

You scumbags are doing your best to change that.

"

5) Trump - an unprecedented embarrassment to governments everywhere - will be president. We are the laughing stock of the world (note: I wouldn't say this if ANY other republican had won instead)."

So, you're a butthurt snowflake who can't accept the results of the election.

What did that fucking cvnt Hillary say about this?


It's appalling that a presidential nominee of a major party is undermining the pillar of our democracy—just because he hates losing. pic.twitter.com/ZQhoighCAl

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 20, 2016

Maybe I'm missing something here, but that chart on electricity grid reliability seems to indicate the US has one of the least consistent electrical grids of the countries listed. It is near the top of the chart for average outage minutes. Wouldn't that be time when the electricity if out? Wouldn't that be a bad thing, indicative of a possibly poorer electrical infrastructure?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

True things have been bad but the Democrats are almost gone now. In teo years they will be reduced to a whisper along the coastline.

 

[The Great Goose]

At least we didn't hear the same old crap about how great the Scandanavian countries are. The fact of the matter is that the United States supports and feeds and offers free medical care to more illegal aliens than the entire population of the Scandanavian countries. Why do people crawl across the freaking desert and stow away on vermin infested ships and spend their last dimes to get to the United States? Because whiny neo-socialists think we have the "widest income disparity" and "our alleged 2nd rate infrastructure" ? They come to the United States because the greatest Country in the world offers the freedom to get rich if you work hard enough. The U.S. invented the concept of government of the people and no other country in the world has a Bill of Rights guaranteed in the Constitution. The industrial might and courage of the United States saved thousand year old regimes and countries and the entire freaking free world from tyranny twice during the bloody 20th century before the Country was even two hundred years old. It's a shame that ungrateful hypocrite victims of the last fifty years of the liberal education system don't appreciate what a gift they have in living in the greatest Country and the last super-power in the world.

corruption is always the same.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

My caveat is that America is also great in many ways. The best in the world for a few things.


However, a lot of things about this country really suck.

1) Our infrastructure system is one of the worst in the developed world.

2) Our child poverty rate is the worst among developed nations.

3) Our GDP spending per person on healthcare is high in comparison to other nations.

4) Our healthcare system is ranked among the worst of developed nations due to its high cost to consumers and ineligibility for millions of others.

5) Trump - an unprecedented embarrassment to governments everywhere - will be president. We are the laughing stock of the world (note: I wouldn't say this if ANY other republican had won instead).

6) We are the only country on earth that has an incoming government that denies the existence of climate change.

7) Water supplies across the country have dangerous amounts of lead in the water. It's the emergency that no one in the mainstream media will cover.

8) This country has the widest income disparity than any developed country on earth.

America kind of blows. The bad slightly outweighs all the good.

So, you're a leftist retard spewing bullshit.

How unique..

You know I'm right.

I know that the hate list you cut and pasted is utterly stupid.

"1) Our infrastructure system is one of the worst in the developed world."

What a retarded fucking lie - I mean even as you Communists go, that is absurd shit.

View attachment 105457

Fact is, we have the most robust infrastructure in the world. Soros and the jackles who think for you are lying, because they know that you're stupid as a fucking brick and will never question this shit the spoon feed you.

"2) Our child poverty rate is the worst among developed nations."

Wow, what do we even say about this kind of fucking lie?

The Communists over at NeverThinkShithead polished this little turd, that you suck on like a popsicle.

So how do these lying cocksuckers defend this?

"h UNICEF defines as living in a household that earns less than half of the national median."

Wait a fucking minute, so the Soros scum are saying that a child in a household making $30,000 per year in the USA is WORSE off than than a child in a household in France making $6,000 a year? Because the median in the USA is 5 times greater?

Really? You lying fucks REALLY pull this shit? Why of course you do, you're scumbags without a shred of integrity bent on the destruction of Western Civilization.

"3) Our GDP spending per person on healthcare is high in comparison to other nations."

Who gives a fuck?

We have the most advanced medical care on the globe.

"4) Our healthcare system is ranked among the worst of developed nations due to its high cost to consumers and ineligibility for millions of others."

Ranked by whom? Communist fuckwads? We have the most advanced medical care on the planet, by a huge margin.

You scumbags are doing your best to change that.

"

5) Trump - an unprecedented embarrassment to governments everywhere - will be president. We are the laughing stock of the world (note: I wouldn't say this if ANY other republican had won instead)."

So, you're a butthurt snowflake who can't accept the results of the election.

What did that fucking cvnt Hillary say about this?


It's appalling that a presidential nominee of a major party is undermining the pillar of our democracy—just because he hates losing. pic.twitter.com/ZQhoighCAl

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 20, 2016

Maybe I'm missing something here, but that chart on electricity grid reliability seems to indicate the US has one of the least consistent electrical grids of the countries listed. It is near the top of the chart for average outage minutes. Wouldn't that be time when the electricity if out? Wouldn't that be a bad thing, indicative of a possibly poorer electrical infrastructure?

when you take into consideration that the electrical grid in the U.S was basically one of the first in the world, you have to understand that the other countries started out with better refined technology and materials than we did. Not only did we have to expend resources in continued growth but you also have to take into consideration the resources needed to constantly try to upgrade older grids as we went along. Other countries that build much later than the U.S, had the advantage of the advanced technology from dollar one, they did not have to spend money to go back and rewire entire geographical locations while trying to expand.
Those other countries are also not seeing the population growth that the U.S is currently undergoing, this causes an increase in demand that can either be met with billions of dollars in upgrades constantly, or a reduction in service quality.
and then I suppose we can look at our lifestyle and understand that due to many of the things that we take for granted, other countries look at as a luxury, like keeping our houses cooled to a nice 70° when its 100° outside, or our electric heat, or even our energy drains for christmas lights across the country every year.

 

[The Great Goose]

Last great superpower in the world. I'm 80 years old...lived in the us my whole life...please describe how its super...blame the education system. Coward.

Well you came down with the last shower, didn't you, sunshine?