We're Number One!!!

[bearssoapbox]

YAYYYYY!!!



We should be so 'proud'.

[Ghost in the Machine]

1. Off to the Greatest Page you go!! Don't forget we have the highest incarceration rate, too!

The incarceration rate in the United States of America is the highest in the world. As of 2009[update], the incarceration rate was 743 per 100,000 of national population (0.743%).[2] While the United States represents about 5 percent of the world's population, it houses around 25 percent of the world's prisoners.[3][4] Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners, costing $24,000 per inmate per year, and $5.1 billion in new prison construction, consumes $60.3 billion in budget expenditures.

As of 2014 the high incarceration rates have started to modestly decline, although still remain the highest in the world.[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate

Land of the Free!..... my ass!!

What else are we NUMBER ONE at?

Ghost

[Uncle Joe]

2. We're also number one in prison population...so we have that going for us.

Thanks for the thread, bearssoapbox.

[King_Klonopin]

4. Correlates with #1 in deaths from gunshot wounds. YAY again. nt

[bearssoapbox]

3. I forgot about our prison population.

Another dubious and shameful example of "American exceptionalism"

As of last year we're also in a race with Mexico for obesity.

Here's a few more firsts. http://www.alternet.org/economy/american-exceptionalism?page=0%2C2

[Helen Borg]

5. Sir, you hate America!

Obviously, you eat Belgian waffles.

[bearssoapbox]

7. Mmmmmmm...

Belgian waffles.

[ReRe]

6. K&R

One thing's for sure. Bernie tells it just like it is. No talking out of both side of his mouth, no mumbling, no covering up. He just opens up his mouth and lets the truth roll off his tongue. I wish he would run as a Democrat just so he can debate Hillary. And I so wish Elizabeth Warren would run too. But that is 2016. Time will tell. Thanks for the OP!

[bearssoapbox]

8. I like Bernie too.

He's not afraid to tell it like it is.

And I love the way Elizabeth Warren does the same thing AND goes after the banksters.