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45 Facts That Show How Far America Has Fallen In This Generation
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The American Dream blog,
What has happened to America? Please show these numbers to anyone that does not believe that the United States is in decline. It is time for all of us to humble ourselves and face the reality of what has happened to our once great nation. For those of us that love America, it is heartbreaking to watch the foundations of our society rot and decay in thousands of different ways. The following are 45 facts that show how far America has fallen in this generation, but the truth is that this list could have been far, far longer…
#1 According to a survey that was just conducted, only 36 percent of all Americans can name the three branches of government.
#2 Only 25 percent of all Americans know how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20 percent of all Americans know how many U.S. senators there are.
#3 Even if you include same-sex couples in the numbers, the marriage rate in the United States is at a 93 year low.
#4 For the first time ever, single Americans make up more than half the U.S. population.
#5 31.1 percent of American young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents.
#6 One out of every ten teen girls in America engages in “self-harm”. Cutting and burning are the most common forms that this “self-harm” takes.
#7 One survey found that 85 percent of all young men in America and almost half of all young women in America watch porn at least once a month.
#8 A different survey discovered that 64 percent of American men of all ages view pornography at least once per month.
#9 The Internet can be used for great good, but it can also be used for great evil. It is being reported that 83 percent of U.S. boys and 57 percent of U.S. girls have been exposed to group sex while on the Internet.
#10 One survey discovered that 25 percent of all employees that have Internet access in the United States visit sex websites while they are at work.
#11 There is an epidemic of porn watching among federal employees. For example, one Treasury Department worker said that he viewed 13,000 pornographic images within the span of six weeks because he did “not have enough work to do“.
#12 An astounding 30 percent of all Internet traffic now goes to adult websites.
#13 Right now, 30 million Americans are on antidepressants.
#14 Americans account for about five percent of the global population, but we buy more than 50 percent of the pharmaceutical drugs.
#15 Americans consume a whopping 80 percent of all prescription painkillers.
#16 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.
#17 Approximately 60 million Americans have a problem with alcohol addiction.
#18 Heroin traffic in New York City is at a 20 year high.
#19 Of all the major industrialized nations, America is the most obese. Mexico is #2.
#20 Back in 1962, only 13 percent of all Americans were obese, but it is being projected that 42 percent of all Americans could be obese by the year 2030.
#21 70 percent of Americans do not “feel engaged or inspired at their jobs”.
#22 40 percent of all workers in the United States actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968 after you account for inflation.
#23 Small business ownership in the United States is at the lowest level that has ever been recorded.
#24 It is hard to believe, but 56 percent of all Americans now have “subprime credit”.
#25 The United States has the most lawyers per capita in the entire world.
#26 The United States has the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in the entire world by a wide margin.
#27 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the U.S. national debt has grown by more than 7 trillion dollars.
#28 During the Obama years, sexual assaults in the U.S. military have soared to an all-time high, and most of the assaults have been male on male.
#29 According to one absolutely shocking study, 22 military veterans kill themselves in the United States every single day.
#30 The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives is Nancy Pelosi. The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives is John Boehner. More often than not, they seem to be working together. Is this really the best that America can do?
#31 There are more than 3 million reports of child abuse in the United States every single year.
#32 At this point, approximately one out of every three children in the United States lives in a home without a father.
#33 18 percent of all women in the United States say that they have been raped at some point in their lives.
#34 According to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately two-thirds of all Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket have engaged in oral sex.
#35 Approximately one-third of the entire population of the United States (110 million people) currently has a sexually transmitted disease according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
#36 Every single year, there are 20 million new STD cases in America.
#37 America has the highest STD infection rate in the entire industrialized world.
#38 Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age group account for about 50 percent of all new STD cases each year.
#39 It costs our nation approximately 16 billion dollars a year to treat our sexually transmitted diseases.
#40 According to one survey, 24 percent of all U.S. teens that have STDs say that they still have unprotected sex.
#41 In the United States today, more than half of all couples “move in together” before they get married.
#42 For couples that have children that are just “living together”, two-thirds of them split up by the time they have a child turn 10 years of age.
#43 For women under the age of 30 in the United States, more than half of all babies are being born out of wedlock.
#44 It is estimated that one out of every four girls will be sexually abused before they become adults.
#45 Suicide has now actually surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of “injury death” in the United States.
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Can whites not listen to rap??
Some whites can. IQ works on a bell shapped curve.
I can't.
There.....I said it....deal with it.
Come on, Bro.
You know rap is just music for the people who can't really sing.
It was invented by Bob Dylan.
Everyone has AIDS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC7HwPh6Es
Michael Snyder has entered the cave of the fallen culture. And the fierce roars and lashings coming forth from the ogryists inside that cave prove his case.
The American culture is going down with the crash, and when it does, freedom goes with it. It’s been done before. And the result is always the same, whether it is in Berlin or whether it is in Los Angeles.
The Weimar Republic lasted from the end of 1918 to the beginning of 1933, and its crumbling edifice was exemplified by Berlin – the cesspool of Europe” – whose extreme libertarianism and, indeed, license created “a haven of total permissiveness where anything went and every passion and vice could be indulged with impunity.”
Jewish scholars such as Walter Laquer claim that without Jewish influence the culture of the pre-Nazi Weimar Republic "would not have existed."
Of the 29 legitimate theaters in Berlin, 23 had Jewish directors. At one point, according to Sir Arthur Bryant, a respected historian and a conservative Christian gentleman wholly out of sympathy with the Nazi regime which followed the Weimar period, so complete was the Jewish monopoly of the Press that “a telephone connection between [sic] three Jews in Ministerial Offices could effect the suspension of any newspaper in the State.
“Authorship,” continues Bryant, “was almost a Jewish monopoly. In 1931, of 144 film scripts worked, 119 were written by Jews and 77 produced by them.”
And now, 21st century America culture, is controlled by similar factions in Hollywood and the media, such as Advance Publications CEO Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. (net worth of $8.1 billion in 2013)).
Sam’s net worth comes from his “enlightenment” of America’s teen-age girls on open sex and homosexuality. Here is one example of Newhouse's monthly advice from his “Glamour” publication by editor Lindsey Unterberger:
Let's Talk Anal Sex, That Thing All Guys Want in Bed These Days
Some women won’t consider it. Some women can’t live without it. But almost every woman is getting asked for it! Shall we discuss anal sex?
“Is my vagina suddenly not good enough for him?” asked one of my girlfriends after her man “accidentally” tried to put his p in her b. As the editor of glamour.com’s relationship blog, I’ve heard this question before; after all, more young women than ever—45 percent—are trying anal, according to the latest research from the Kinsey Institute.
I assured her that she shouldn’t worry; her man still lived for her vagina, though he was kind of a douche for not asking before going for her back door. I said what I say about every sex act: Don’t do it if you don’t want to. And if you do try it, try it for yourself as much as for him. Most women are skeptical of anal initially, but many end up loving it. As glamour.com commenter amarie20 put it, “You have to try it once, ladies. I was so anti-anal sex, but I love my BF for taking it slow. Now I want it all the time.”
So how do some women go from “No effing way am I doing that” to “Oh my effing God, don’t stop”? Like so:
First, chill out.
“If you’re hesitant, nervous, or not into it, no one is going to get off, and what’s the point of that?” says Tristan Taormino, author of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women. Try deep-breathing exercises or a glass of wine to relax. If you’re freaked by the ick factor, Taormino recommends going to the bathroom and taking a shower or a bath beforehand. Lubricated condoms can help with comfort—and help prevent STDs.
Then ease into it.
“The number-one mistake people make is rushing,” says Taormino. Start with foreplay, vaginal sex, anything that turns you on. “The more aroused you are, the more relaxed your sphincter muscle will be, and that’s going to make for a hotter and easier experience,” she says. If you haven’t already, now’s also the time to bust out the lube—lots and lots of water-based lube. Your guy can also help you to relax further by using his fingers or a toy before his penis gets into the act.
And go slow.
Let me repeat: Go slow. “He should begin slowly,” says Taormino, “while you breathe deeply.” If you feel pain, have him ease up, stop, or switch positions. (Missionary is often the most comfortable for newbies, but doggy-style can work too, if he enters from slightly above you.) Have him stimulate your clitoris with his fingers to increase your pleasure level.
Now carry on!
This will be just one thing in your repertoire. When you switch back to the other stuff, wash up and use a new condom. Ponder what to ask of him in return.
http://www.glamour.com/sex-love-life/blogs/smitten/2013/02/lets-talk-anal-sex-that-thing.html
At the same time, on 3/22/2013 Forbes was running the article: "Howard Schultz to Anti-Gay-Marriage Starbucks Shareholder: 'You Can Sell Your Shares'":
“At Starbucks’ annual meeting in Seattle on Wednesday a shareholder complained to the chief executive, Howard Schultz, that the company had lost customers because of its support for gay marriage. Last year Starbucks announced its support for Washington’s state’s referendum backing gay marriage, and in response the National Organization for Marriage launched a boycott of the coffee chain….
“Was Schultz taken aback? Not in the least. He responded, ‘Not every decision is an economic decision. Despite the fact that you recite statistics that are narrow in time, we did provide a 38% shareholder return over the last year. I don’t know how many things you invest in, but I would suspect not many things, companies, products, investments have returned 38% over the last 12 months. Having said that, it is not an economic decision to me. The lens in which we are making that decision is through the lens of our people. We employ over 200,000 people in this company, and we want to embrace diversity. Of all kinds.’
“At that point the audience interrupted in cheers and applause. Then Schultz concluded, ‘If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38% you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.’ More cheers…
“See a video of Schultz’s remark, courtesy of the Puget Sound Business Journal, here.”
And now another of the tribe, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, couldn’t wait to be the first justice to officiate at a same-sex marriage this past August between Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser and economist John Roberts.
Either end the Fed from whence all this anti-American culture money originates or end America as it was once known to be.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=qe2E5Sk7CjI#t=0
RT Interview With Roseanne Barr -I never knew we had a spokesman in Roseanne Barr: Hollywood is a ”culture of fear for sure and a culture of mind control….of self censorship because there’s a danger you will never work again… The Chinese have a saying, “The nail that stands up gets hammered down” and that’s how it is here… you don’t want to put yourself at odds with the people who decide your future and pay for your work...
…a country owned by banksters and both parties of this government owned by banksters. There’s no way we can turn our backs or quiet down now. It’ll only get worse.”
Freedom of speech… uh-huh. Only "free" for those who own the mikes.
I fucked my first girlfriend in both holes when we were 17. It was both of our first times. I wouldn't change that for anything, and I cannot blame society for that. Two horny 17 year olds are going to fuck, society be damned.
Sorry, it's friday and im on my 3rd gin and tonic.
Thank you for sharing. Is this a great country, or what?
in both holes when we were 17
Didn't realize there was one more option?
Honestly, if America were under Sha-ria law there would be fewer things about it that would need to be 'fixed' than under the current liberal laws we have in place now... (Did you get this NSA? Ok, thanks).
The vast majority of the items on this list are a complete joke and have little to do with the degradation of the US. It's mainly social conservative claptrap.
Everything that spews out of ZH now is mostly focused on ultra social conservative crap...
Did you figure this out all by yourself, or did it come to you in the form of a revelation?
It was a revelation I experienced while watching a live streamed orgy on a monitor on top of your sister's back while I was fucking her in the ass while your mother sucked on my balls with the entire lot of us wasted out of our minds on prescription drugs.
What was the point of your mindless post? It does not advance any sort of discussion nor does it demonstrate either agreement or disagreement with my views. You aren't as witty as you think.
Apparently you demonstrate the negative effects of porn. Good thing you're a eunich.
I used extreme hyperbole based on his worthless post. This is Fight Club, he got what was coming to him for making such a shitty post. I also extremely rarely look at porn, its been well over a month, I have a girlfriend that keeps me satisfied. Way to make another completely pointless point which is a further tangent from the original comment and which adds nothing to the discussion other than an ad hominem attack.
USA destroyed by Talmudism.
Welcome to ZIO USSA.
Yeah, yeah... at the last second when it really matters, the 3 percent will take the appropriate action to right the S.S. America before she capsizes.
The 97% will be little more than spectators.
I hope so too!
I want to emphasize just how little most people know about the world and to make the point about how important real knowledge is. In our modern world we are constantly assaulted with so much data, information and noise that it is often hard to stay focused. How people live their lives and the quality of those lives is important in defining our existence and society.
With all the debate about gay marriage, gun control, funding pre-k, and such we should put high on our agenda the goal of crafting a better, smarter, and overall improved society. Programs to promote and teach better parenting should be considered and made a focal point of in this endeavor. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/07/crafting-better-society.html
Annnd; one more self-promoting bullshit artist is heard from.
Yes, AdvancingTime, nothing would pay society back more than better all-around prenatal care, and care during the first five or so years of life.
Of course, in fact, our society spends at least ten times as much money on old people as it does on young people.
Education is the way that society reproduces itself. In our case, the established civilization operates through its typical Bizarro Mirror World fashion, to spend relatively trivial amounts of money on young people, which little of that is done is primarily designed to brainwash them to believe in bullshit.
There is no doubt that the single best investment that could be made in the future of the human species would be the education of women, with respect to the care of their children. Of course, as is appropriately phrased in the English language, nothing is more "fucked up" and backwards than the ways that we actually operate our real human ecology through keeping women ignorant and afraid.
It is not an accident, in our Bizarro Mirror World, that the people who should most care about politics are actually those who participate the least. Of course, to rectify that problem would take profound political revolutions. For instance, we should recognize that what we call "birth control" is actually death control. IF human beings were to have an overall better ecology, then it would be vital for women to take far more direct responsibility for the politics of the real death controls, as implemented through their "birth controls."
We live in a world where we take for granted that it is unbalanced to a degree than exhibits a ratio of at least 100 to 1. Therefore, the public "money" supply is about 99% privatized, while the typical leverage using that "money" is overall at a similarly insanely unbalanced ratio, or much worse in many cases. Likewise, when it comes to death controls, those are misunderstood more than anything else, and more unbalanced that anything else. Therefore, while there is no doubt that better education of women, and corresponding real capacities for them to give birth to and better care for their children, would generate the greatest overall return for society as whole to invest in, that could NOT work unless those women were also educated about the basic human ecology problems, and so, were to take more direct responsibility for the human ecology equilibria, by operating the primary death controls, through "birth controls."
Many of the facts outlined in this article by Snyder could be traced to the ways in which everything our society does is as backwards as possible to what would overall work, so that the least thing that governments do is look after poor young people, while the thing that governments most do is look after old rich people.
Pardon me Mr Snyder, but could you please call/title/write it more correctly in the future? Call it something besides America.
We did not write anthems, nor hymns, nor poetry, nor die for "U.S.". We did it always for America.
Actually himaroid, there are 972 million "Americans" on the planet. Only 330 million of them live in the United States...
OBTW: I didn't downrate you... ;-)
It seems to me that this list focuses far too much on sexual desire. Did a mennonite write this? A lack of sexual desire leads to falling populations. See Japan, Italy, etc. How is that working out for them? Full disclosure here...I'm pro sex and I have 4 kids. Thanks.
You're welcome.
Sex sells.
Exponentionally growing populations with finite resources - how is that working out for the planent?
Sounds to me like they'z a lot o fuckin going on.
Did you know that 35% of the author's reasoning for a declining generation are based on basic lifestyle choices and sexual promiscuity...
I do wonder what kind of country we are, when 1/3 of the kids, aged 15-24 can't engage in oral sex. I honestly feel bad for them, and I hope America will become a place, where by the time you're 24, you will have received a BJ.
Another note: Every other stat tis guy posted regarding sex, stds, marriage rate, porn, living with your significant other, etc... is all BS.
Seems to be all going according to plan.
It is simple. Corrupt elitist banks, businesses, politicians and media all happened to America at the same time. They have no interest or ability to what is right for the country or its people.
Pornography is one of the major failings of the new culture; it is the key that fits it all. Talking about violence against women, it fits; talking about abortion, it fits; talking about homosexuality, it fits; talking about all kinds of perversions and divorce and children abuse and joblessness, it fits. About every social ill you’re talking about, pornography is associated.
Bernie Ward, formerly a radio talk show host with KGO 810 AM in San Francisco, is now serving a seven-year prison sentence for the online distribution of child pornography. because he was addicted to it.
We had a lot more good paying manufacturing/industrial jobs before free trader Ronald Reagan was elected and forced Reganomics down our throats. Buy buy buy has been the American culture since Reagan. Highly toxic and self destructing. I hoped Obama would finally end Reganomics, but no, he has kept these horrible "debt is good" policies of Reagan going.
Before Reagan we were the biggest creditor nation, and after Reagan we were the biggest debtor nation on earth. Think about this before you praise Ronald Reagan!!
Uh oh. You told people to think...they're not going to like that!
You forgot union buster, but every other president has also been one of those since.
"We had a lot more good paying manufacturing/industrial jobs before free trader Ronald Reagan was elected and forced Reganomics down our throats."
The phase of a cycle always turns. Before Reagan, interest rates and inflation were going higher and higher. Since then, the trend has been lower and lower bounces.
If not Reaganomics, it would have been some other enonomics and we would still be in the same place we are now, give or take.
Bullshit. This ''fact'' only exists if you dumb-down and re-write the meaning of sexual abuse.
Hey baby=Abuse
17 year old boy dates 14 year old=Abuse
Spin the Bottle=Abuse
Playing Doctor=Abuse
Any sexual activity pre-18=Abuse
Some chicks never actually become adults, although they may age beyond 18, 25, or even 35 years.
Yes, all is going according to the elitist plan.
The elitist have a plan ? and all they could come up with is Barry ? I think they need some new elitists.
# 7 and 8 are awful. How can we get those numbers to 100%?
I only read down until I got to the first mention of porn, which triggered me to go watch some. Had a tough time deciding whether to watch lesbo or MILF. oops, gotta bet back to work, boss is coming. Alt tab!
"64 percent of American men of all ages view pornography at least once per month."
Once a month? Indeed that seems very unhealthy http://youtu.be/UTHlXb0PXh4?t=3m6s
76% of men admit that they would watch less porn if women weren't so fucking crazy and actually opened their legs once and a while after you marry them.""""""
Absolute genius ! This is why I live in Thailand. Who needs porn in Thailand? My girlfriend will not let me go more than 2 days without sex.
Oh she's 31. And I'm 58. Yes I have to buy her shit. At least it's a value play..... 5'2 110 lbs .......do the math!
Are you sure she's a girl?
To do the math, we would need to know how much you spend on her.
I can't believe #14. I could believe that Americans pay half the cost of all the pharmaceuticals in the world, but I don't believe they take 1/2 the actual pills.
can somebody explain to me whats wrong with porn and sex?
this looks like christian crap. half the points are just BS...
maybe the problem is that the US of A haz to many radical christians and to little normal thinking people...
Guide to Family Issues: The Harms of Pornograpy | United Families International
History and research reveal the many harms of pornography:
The scenes of sex crimes and the homes of those committing sex crimes are frequently littered with pornography. Pornography creates callous attitudes toward rape and causes users to develop distorted perceptions about sexuality.
http://unitedfamilies.org/default.asp?contentID=34
Christians aren't "normal thinking" people? You're a fucking retard...
This list is a combination of mildly interesting and outright BS. Putting 15-24 years olds in the same category? Really? That's one of the propaganda techniques used to skew gun fatalities.
Facts America has fallen #46: The 'clapper'
#47: Brian Williams
#48: Minecraft
#49: UCSD
#50: Pop-tarts
The twinkie is dead, Jim!
It's clone lives.
yes, plenty of single moms these days. completely DISGUSTING
It's those damned hippies.
Think of it this way. In the past, the crime families ie: Costa Nostra, Mafia, the Mob provided sex, gambling, drugs and alcohol to those with money who wanted to indulge and society declared "Wars" on all these "criminal" activites.
Then the corporations and higher elected officials and civil servants found out they were missing out on a gold mine.
The war is still on against the mob.
Who is controlling gambling, sex, drugs and alcohol?
Look at all the legal casinos, lotteries, satellite porn stations (controlled by .gov and offered by corp), and legal brothels in Nevada, drugstores and legal booze outlets.
When the morals of .gov equate to the mob, how do you expect a country to overcome decay. The only difference between the American hood and cartel personnel in other countries is the American is likely to wear a suit and tie.
For those of you who make light of porn, how would you react if you turned on your set and saw your mother, sister or daughter in the act?
Or phone a call girl agency and your daughter comes a knocking at your hotel room door? It has happened.
The only difference between the American hood and cartel personnel in other countries is the American is likely to wear a suit and tie.
Or a Supreme Court robe…(you know, pornograhpy is the law of the land).
" 40 percent of all workers in the United States actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968 after you account for inflation."
Yellen says they need to build up assets on less income than the inflation adjusted 1968 minimum wage. Yellen is so willfully blind to what is happening to people.
No one polled me. How about you?
Right, blow jobs are bad for us. WTF. Tyler, can we replace this clown with a real blogger that doesn't sit around making retarded lists carrying the taint their sexual frustration?