Debunking popular myths about the U.S.

email | Craig J. Cantoni

[gogogodzilla]

BTTT!

[.cnI redruM]

Interesting stuff...

[SMARTY]

Guess that clears the air

[avg_freeper]

beer consumption, the U.S. is in 11th place;

Hey! I'm doing my part. Who's slacking off?

[Gingersnap]

Thanks for the excellent post! I'm definitely getting this guy's book.

[RKV]

"Myth #14: The U.S. leads in threatened species." The world didn't know what an endangered species was until we taught them. The rest of the world already killed their endangered species off before we gave them the idea that preservation was a good thing. We also invented the national park.

[golfboy]

Damn, looks like we've got a lot of catching up to do! I better tell my 13 year old son to put down the beer, bring the truck around so that we can chop down some trees!

[msf92497]

Nice.

Eat that, Eurofascist doody heads.

[Tulane]

Wait...this post seems to be saying that we're not

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[Tribune7]

The Czech Republic ranks first in beer consumption

The Czechs have good beer.

[Tribune7]

ping

[oldleft]

PING

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reference bump

[Toddsterpatriot]

Myth #2: The U.S. is uncompetitive in global markets.

Fact: The U.S. is the world's biggest exporter, twice as big as Japan and three times as big as China. It also ranks first in manufacturing output, with 80 percent more output than Japan and more than twice as much output as either China or Germany. And it is surpassed in per-capita Gross Domestic Product by only Luxembourg, Norway and Switzerland, all of which are tiny, lily-white countries. The social-welfare countries of Germany, France and Italy have a per-capita GDP that is only 66 percent, 67 percent and 57 percent, respectively, of the per-capita GDP of the U.S.

Hey wedgie, check this out.

[fatnotlazy]

Fact: It ranks 31st in the number of people injured per miles traveled. Italy, Canada, Belgium, Israel and Germany have more injuries.

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I don't know about the other countries, but I believe it re: Italy. Rome is a dangerous place.

[wizardoz]

Whoa! Cut, paste, save!! This is a keeper...

[HEY4QDEMS]

Myth Busted!!

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