The following are 50 mind blowing facts about modern America that our Founding Fathers never would have believed....
#1 In 2010, not only does the United States have a central bank, but it also runs our economy and issues all of our currency.
The Federal Reservehas devalued the U.S. dollar by over 95 percent since 1913 and it has
been used to create the biggest mountain of government debt in the
history of the world.
#2 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
has ruledthat U.S. government agents can legally sneak onto your property in the
middle of the night, place a secret GPS device on the bottom of your
car and keep track of you everywhere that you go.
#3 The 50 wealthiest members of Congress saw their collective fortunes increase by 85.1 million dollars to
$1.4 billion in 2009.
#4 The U.S. government has accumulated a
national debt that is rapidly approaching the 14 trillion dollar mark.
#5 All over the United States, asphalt roads are being ground up and are being replaced with gravel
because it is cheaper to maintain. The state of South Dakota has transformed over 100 miles of asphalt
road into gravel over the past year, and 38 out of the 83 counties in
the state of Michigan have now turned some of their asphalt roads into
gravel roads.
#6 Americans now owe more than $849 billion on
student loans, which is more than the total amount that Americans owe on their credit cards.
#7 In 2010, Americans waste an astounding amount of food. According to a study
by the California Integrated Waste Management board,63 percent of the average supermarket's waste stream is food. When you
break that down, it means that each supermarket wastes approximately
3,000 pounds of food each year.
#8 The city of Cleveland plans to sort through
curbside trashto ensure that people are actually recycl..ing properly. If it is
discovered that some citizens are not recycling they will be hit with
very large fines.
#9 Once upon a time, U.S. industry was the envy of the world. But since 1979, manufacturing employment in the United States has
fallen by 40 percent.
#10 Even though the U.S. population has exploded in size, the number of Americans with manufacturing jobs today is smaller than the number of Americans who were employed in
manufacturing in 1950.
#11 Having one out of every eight Americans enrolled in the food stamp program is now considered "
the new normal" and Americans continue to drop into poverty in astounding numbers.
#13 A family of four actually has difficulty surviving on an income of $50,000 a year in America in 2010.
#15 In 2010, it takes the average unemployed American worker
over 8 months to find a job.
#16 The U.S. government has made some parts of
Arizona off limits to U.S. citizens because of the threat of violence
from Mexican drug smugglers. The federal government has actually posted signs
more than 100 miles north of the Mexican border warning travelers
that certain areas are unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers.
#17 One recent survey of last year's college graduat..es discovered that
80 percent moved right back home with their parents after graduation.
#18 In one of the very first military commissions
held under the Obama administration,.. a U.S. military
judge ruled that
confessions obtained by threatening the subject with rape are admissible in court.
#19 The average American worker now pays literally dozens of different kinds of taxes each year.
#20 In recent years the U.S. government has spent $2.6 million tax dollars to study the drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes and $400,000 tax dollars to pay researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires, Argentina to find out
why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior when drunk.
#22 The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it will begin using cutting edge analysis software to
predict crime by young delinquents and will place "potential offenders" in prevention and education programs.
#23 Organic milk is now considered such a national crisis that the FDA has been
conducting military style raids on Amish farmers in the state of Pennsylvania...
#24 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently.. announced that they are considering a crackdown on
farm dust.
#26 Oakland, California Police Chief Anthony Batts
says that due to severe budget cuts there are a number of crimes that
his department
will simply not be able to respond to any longer.
The crimes that the Oakland police will no longer be responding to
include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism.
#27 Today, Americans are losing their homes in staggering numbers.
One out of every seven mortgages was delinquent or in foreclosure during the first quarter of 2010.
#28 Many of our leading scientists are now calling themselves "..transhumanists".. and are openly proclaiming that a
future where men have fully merged with machines is inevitable.
#29 Americans who spend large amounts of
cash are viewed as "potential criminals" by the U.S. government in 2010.
#30 New full body security scanners going into airports all across the United States can actually see through our clothing and produce very clear and very detailed images of our exposed bodies as we walk through them.
#31 The U.S. financial system has become a massive gambling parlor in 2010. As a result, a horrific
derivatives bubblehas developed that threatens to destroy our entire economy at any
moment. Nobody knows exactly how big the derivatives bubble is, but low
estimates place it at around 600 trillion dollars and high estimates
put it at around 1.5
quadrillion dollars. Once that bubble pops there simply will not be enough money in the entire world to fix it.
#34 A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement
investigation discovered that 250 employees of the Defense Department
used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual
situations. However, the investigation also found that the Pentagon
investigated
only a handful of those cases.
#35 According to a recent poll of Americans between the ages of 44 and 75, 61% said that running out money was their biggest fear. The remaining 39%
thought death was scarier.
#36 Approximately
57 percent ofBarack Obama's 3.8 trillion dollar budget for 2011 consists of direct
payments to individual Americans or is money that is spent on their
behalf.
#37 A recent
Department of Justice guide for investigators of criminal and extremist groups lists "..constitutionali..sts" and "survivalists" alongside organizations like Al-Qaeda and the Aryan Brotherhood.
#38 The
U.S. trade deficithas exploded to nightmarish proportions over the past two decades.
Every single month tens of billions more dollars goes out of the United
States than comes into it. Essentially, the United States is becoming
far poorer as a nation each and every month.
#40 Millions upon millions of good paying middle class jobs are being shipped off to China and
they are never coming back. Meanwhile, U.S. politicians stand by idly and do nothing.
#41 Some analysts now believe that China could become the largest economy in the world by
the year 2020.
#42 If the U.S. government was forced to use GAAP
accounting principles (like all publicly-..traded corporations must), the
annual U.S. government budget deficit would be somewhere in the
neighborhood of four to
five trillion dollars.
#43 According to one recent survey,
28% of all U.S. households have at least one person that is currently searching for a full-time job.
#44 The U.S. dollar continues to rapidly decline in value. An item that cost $20.00 in 1970 will cost you
$112.35 today. An item that cost $20.00 in 1913 will cost you
$440.33 today.
#45 Major international organizations are actually proposing that the United States start considering the adoption of a truly
global currency.
#46 Students at a high school in Missouri have built a car that they claim can get up to
450 miles per gallon. On another note, some of the top energy experts in the world believe that thorium could
solve our energy problemsand supply very cheap energy for society for hundreds of thousands of
years. But in today's world technologies such as these are endlessly
suppressed by the rich and powerful.
#47 One Colorado high school student is seeking an
explanation from officials at his school after he was ordered by
security guards to remove American
flags from his truck because they might make other students at the high school "..uncomfortable".
#49 Memorial crosses erected along Utah public roads to honor fallen state troopers
have been found unconstitutiona..l by a federal appeals court and now must be removed permanently.
#50 One group of high school students made national headlines recently when they revealed that a security guard ordered them to
stop singing the national anthem during a visit to the Lincoln Memoria
