Michael Snyder
The only thing that seems to be constant in our society
is change, and today America is changing at a pace that is more rapid
than we have ever seen before. But is that a good thing or a bad
thing? For a moment, I would like for you to imagine what it would be
like for a group of average Americans from 1919 to suddenly be
transported to our time. How do you think that they would feel about
what we have become? Certainly they would be absolutely amazed by our
advanced technology, but beyond that they would almost certainly have
very strong opinions about the current state of our society. Similarly,
if any of us were suddenly transported 100 years into the future, I am
sure that we would be completely and utterly shocked by how things had
changed. The decisions that we make today are going to echo long into
the future, and if we make very bad decisions there might not be a
future for our country at all.
#1 Approximately one-fourth of the entire global prison population is in the United States.
#2 By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.
#3 The average U.S. adult “logs 6 hours, 43 minutes of total screen time daily”.
#4 Approximately 96 percent of all Americans use the Internet.
#5 According to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, nearly 56,000 bridges in the United States are currently “structurally deficient”. What makes that number even more chilling is the fact that vehicles cross those bridges a total of 185 million times a day.
#6 In more than half of all U.S. states, the highest paid public employee in the state is a football coach.
#7 The Pentagon has more square footage of office space than any other office building in the entire world.
#8 The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island. But Rhode Island has a significantly larger population than Alaska does.
#9 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put together.
#10 The city of Juneau, Alaska is about 3,000 square miles in size. It is actually larger than the entire state of Delaware.
#11 The average age of America’s dams is now 52 years.
#12 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds of food each year.
#13 There are more than 75 million dogs in the United States, and that number is constantly growing.
#14 Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
#15 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California. But no grizzly bears have been seen in the state since 1922.
Read more
No comments:
Post a Comment