The US has
real problems
real problems
that need
solutions.
solutions.
Climate change
is not
is not
one of them.
( Please don't read the list
if you are in a good mood ).
MidWest flooding
severely affecting
US farmers.
Up to half a million people
are homeless in the US.
About one-fourth of the entire
global prison population
is in US jails and prisons.
There are more than 850,000
registered sex offenders
in the United States today.
HEALTH PROBLEMS:
Drug overdosing is the leading
cause of death for Americans
under the age of 50.
Americans are more likely to die
from an opioid overdose,
than from an automobile accident.
CDC estimates 110 million
Americans have a
sexually-transmitted
disease right now,
and there are
are 20 million new
cases every year.
The Mayo Clinic reports
almost 70% of Americans
are on at least one
prescription drug,
and 20% are on at least
five prescription drugs.
CDC reports US doctors
write more than 250 million
antidepressant prescriptions
each year.
After all those antidepressants,
the US suicide rate is up 34%
since the year 2000.
San Francisco handed out
5.8 million free syringes
to drug addicts in 2018.
During one seven day period
last summer, 16,000 official
complaints were submitted
to the city of San Francisco
about human feces on the
sidewalks or streets.
FAMILIES & TEENAGERS:
The average American
spends almost 3 hours a day
( 86 hours per month )
on their smart phone.
About one-third of all American
women will have had an abortion
by the age of 45.
After all those abortions,
the US teen birth rate
is still higher than
in any other industrialized
country in the world.
One-third of all
American teenagers
have not read a book
in the past year.
But when an American child
reaches the age of 18,
he or she will have seen
40,000 murders on television.
Suicide is now the second
leading cause of death
for Americans from age
15 to age 24.
The Pentagon reports that 71%
of US young adults are ineligible
to serve in the U.S. military
because of low intelligence,
overweight, or a criminal