Some very interesting and stunning stuff here!
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The following are 35 mind blowing facts about America that previous generations of Americans never would have believed…
#1 Approximately one-fourth of the entire global prison population is in the United States.
#2 By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.
#3 The average U.S. adult “logs 6 hours, 43 minutes of total screen time daily”.
#4 Approximately 96 percent of all Americans use the Internet.
#5 According to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, nearly 56,000 bridges in the United States are currently “structurally deficient”. What makes that number even more chilling is the fact that vehicles cross those bridges a total of 185 million times a day.
#6 In more than half of all U.S. states, the highest paid public employee in the state is a football coach.
#7 The Pentagon has more square footage of office space than any other office building in the entire world.
#8 The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island. But Rhode Island has a significantly larger population than Alaska does.
#9 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put together.
#10 The city of Juneau, Alaska is about 3,000 square miles in size. It is actually larger than the entire state of Delaware.
#11 The average age of America’s dams is now 52 years.
#12 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds of food each year.
#13 There are more than 75 million dogs in the United States, and that number is constantly growing.
#14 Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
#15 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California. But no grizzly bears have been seen in the state since 1922.
#16 The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially is in Hawaii.
#17 More than 2 million Americans work for Wal-Mart.
#18 Half of all American workers make less than $30,533 a year.
#19 According to one recent survey, 37 percent of all Americans eat fast food every 24 hours.
#20 One study found that one-third of all American teenagers haven’t read a single book in the past year.
#21 Almost one-third of all Millennials are still living with their parents.
#22 The suicide rate in the United States has risen by 33 percent since 1999.
#23 Women have earned at least 57 percent of all bachelor’s degrees in the United States for 18 years in a row.
#24 If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would have the fifth largest GDP on the entire planet.
#25 America does not have a single airport that is considered to be in the top 25 in the world.
#26 Today, a million Americans are living in their RVS, and that number is rising with each passing year.
#27 More than 100 churches in the United States are dying every single week.
#28 The original name of the city of Atlanta was “Terminus“.
#29 There are three towns in the United States that have the name “Santa Claus“.
#30 There is actually a town in Michigan called “Hell“, and during the recent polar vortex it actually froze over.
#31 Almost one-third of all land in the United States is owned by the federal government.
#32 More than 27 million acres of U.S. farmland is owned by foreigners.
#33 Congestion on our highways costs Americans approximately 101 billion dollars a year in wasted fuel and time.
#34 According to Bloomberg, it is being projected “that by 2025, shortfalls in infrastructure investment will subtract as much as $3.9 trillion from U.S. gross domestic product.”
#35 In 1980, the U.S. national debt had just surpassed the one trillion dollar mark. In 2019, we are about to surpass the 22 trillion dollar mark with no end in sight.
Always enjoy your submissions, Stucky!
#12 seems way low.
#36 The first and last Black elected to the office of president was called Obama. He abused his power and allowed the DOJ to open investigations into his successor, using a dossier created by former British Intel agent, paid for by the opposition, represented by Hillary Clinton, who was eventually deemed incontinent.
Maybe a tad OT to this post but nevertheless, the clowns we have in the admin are indeed mind blowing:
This opinion piece pretty much captures my sentiments as to the clowns currently in the admin. I have posted on other
sites because I am intent on trying to stop this insanity on Venezuela and Iran and Russia and China (hopesprings eternal but hopefully the wider the dissemination, the better):
http://www.unz.com/freed/pussy-john-bolton-and-his-codpiece-mustache/
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American government has become a collection of sordid and dangerous clowns. It was not always thus. Until Bush II, those governing were never lunatics. Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Obama, Clinton had their defects, were sometimes corrupt, and could be disagreed with on many grounds. They weren’t crazy. Today’s administration would seem unwholesome in a New York bus station at three in the morning. They are not normal American politicians.
In particular they seem to be pushing for war with Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela. And–this is important–their behavior is not a matter of liberals catfighting with conservatives. All former presidents carefully avoided war with the Soviet Union, which carefully avoided war with America. It was Reagan, a conservative and responsible president, who negotiated the INF treaty, to eliminate short-fuse nuclear weapons from Europe. By contrast, Trump is scrapping it. Pat Buchanan, the most conservative man I have met, strongly opposes aggression against Russia. The problem with the current occupants of the White House is not that they are conservatives, if they are. It is that they are nuts.
Donald the Cockatoo
Start with the head cheese, Donald Trump, profoundly ignorant, narcissistic, a real-estate con man who danced just out of reach of the law. His supporters will explode in fury at this. All politics being herd politics, the population has coalesced into herds fanatically pro-Trump and fanatically anti-Trump. Yet Trump’s past is not a secret. Well-documented biographies describe his behavior in detail, but his supporters don’t read them. The following is a bit long, but worth reading.
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That’s a good article.
“Today’s administration would seem unwholesome in a New York bus station at three in the morning. ” Taras
Great imagery there. I would only add one thing: as unwholesome as the Men’s
toilet
at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Now I need a shower.
Montana sounds nice. (#14)
Maybe a few other places, too.
Thanks. That reinforces what I was already thinking about a possible move.
#36:
People still believe that in a indirect democracy, that voting changes the country.
I am not disgusted that 2 million Americans work for Walmart. It is a company that makes its money through voluntary exchanges in a more or less free market (aside from the billions it rakes in in EBT monies, of couse). I am however disgusted that there are 22.34 MILLION government employees at the federal, state, and local levels as of Dec. 2017 (governing.com). Every penny of their pay is STOLEN from the productive sector, every minute of their day is spent violating the rights and freedoms of every other American, and their presence in our society is anathema to the freedoms and liberties that we once cherished. THAT is disgusting. Walmart I can choose to patronize or not patronize. The do not STEAL from me (aside from all the EBT monies they get).
Walmart steals the opportunity for reasonable competition in any area that is not a metropolis.
I guess it would also be accurate to point out that Walmart also indirectly steals from local businesses who are forced to pay higher taxes, permit costs, property taxes, etc. in order to offset the gigantic handouts city and county “leaders” hand to them in order to get them to come into the area to destroy the very businesses that help subsidize their move. Yeah, nice how that works.
I say bring back the shutdown and then let those federal employees go to find gainful employment in the private sector.
“#2 By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.”
That works out to about 6 murders a day. Sounds like bullshit.
Not if you count government false flag events like 9-11 (2800+ murders), US government bombings of innocent foreigners (sometimes dozens of murders in a newscast), and any news coverage of any major metropolitan city that is both run by blacks AND is trying to make things “safer” with gun control (dozens of murders covered nightly).
Atlanta was originally named Terminus because four railroad routes met there.
Interesting facts, Georgia’s first capitol was in Louisville. In 1804, it was moved to Milledgeville. The capitol building was damaged during the War Between the States. In 1868, during Reconstruction, the capitol was moved to Atlanta. It was one of the only cities being rebuilt because the Union Army big wheels occupied it. And, of course, due to the railroads, which were being rebuilt.
It probably would have been better to give the author a shout out at the top rather than link to his blog at the end.
Can you say fourth truning!
Can you spell it? turning. LOL. Just giving you a hard time.