They arrogantly proclaim that the U.S. is a "shining city on a hill."
They even have a word for it: its called AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM.
Here is the price of Republican policies such as deregulation, corporate health care, free trade, anti environmentalism, and cutting of funding for public education.
The United States is 49th in the world in literacy.
The U.S. ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy.
U.S. ranks 37th in health care performance.
U.S. childhood poverty now ranks 22nd, or second to last, among the developed nations. Only Mexico scores lower.
Of the 20 most developed countries in the world, the U.S. was dead last in the growth rate of total compensation to its workforce, yet Americans work longer hours per year than any other industrialized country, and get less vacation time.
Sometime in the next 10 years Brazil will probably pass the U.S. as the world's largest agricultural producer. Brazil is now the world's largest exporter of chickens, orange juice, sugar, coffee, and tobacco. Last year, Brazil passed the U.S. as the world's largest beef producer. As a result, while we bear record trade deficits, Brazil boasts a $30 billion trade surplus.
As of last June, the U.S. imported more food than it exported.
U.S. is also
#30 in life expectancy.
#22 in lack of corruption
#27 in renewable energy
#33 in scientific literacy
Also thanks to Republican policies:
America is #1 in military spending
gross national debt.
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SOURCES
http://www.virtualvideomap.com/We-Are-Not-Number-One-Anymore.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8191.htm
