LadyWitch
Bluelighter
What does the USA do best?
It fools its citizens into paying more taxes for a far smaller return from the gov't. All the while you've been propogandized to believe that you have it so much better than everyone else because you have access to public land and better movie/tv content.
The US is the only wealthy country in the world without universal healthcare coverage. The US spends about three times as much per capita on healthcare expenditures than other countries with comparable incomes, yet Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in those countries. The US also leads wealthy countries in preventable deaths. In 2013, 112 out of every 100,000 Americans under 75 died from complications or conditions that could have been avoided with better healthcare.
The US is the only wealthy country in the world without universal healthcare coverage. The US spends about three times as much per capita on healthcare expenditures than other countries with comparable incomes, yet Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in those countries. The US also leads wealthy countries in preventable deaths. In 2013, 112 out of every 100,000 Americans under 75 died from complications or conditions that could have been avoided with better healthcare.
Among developed countries, Estonia leads the way with 87 weeks of paid leave for new parents — that's more than a year and a half. Japan and several European countries — Bulgaria, Hungary, Japan, Lithuania, Austria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Norway, and Slovakia — each offer more than a year off as well.
People who hold a US passport can travel to 158 countries visa-free — a good mark, but not quite the highest in the world, according to Passport Index's annual ranking.
Germany leads the world by this metric, as the German passport allows travelers to enter 161 countries without visas. Other countries whose passports are stronger than those issued by the US include Singapore, the UK, Denmark, France, South Korea, and 12 others.
As of today, the entire world has adopted the metric system, with the exception of the United States, Myanmar, and Liberia.
The metric system, also known as the International System of Units (SI), is a system of measurement that is built on three main units: meters, liters, and grams. Since the metric system is a base 10 system of measurement, each succeeding unit of length, mass, or volume is 10 times larger than the previous one.
While the U.S. system also measures length, mass, and volume, it uses an entirely different set of units than the metric system.
Since there is no “base” rule for U.S. customary units, volume, mass, and distance are all measured differently under this system.
Measuring temperature in Fahrenheit vs Celsius falls under this heading as well.
Blessings
Jadis, QoS
It fools its citizens into paying more taxes for a far smaller return from the gov't. All the while you've been propogandized to believe that you have it so much better than everyone else because you have access to public land and better movie/tv content.
The US is the only wealthy country in the world without universal healthcare coverage. The US spends about three times as much per capita on healthcare expenditures than other countries with comparable incomes, yet Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in those countries. The US also leads wealthy countries in preventable deaths. In 2013, 112 out of every 100,000 Americans under 75 died from complications or conditions that could have been avoided with better healthcare.
The US is the only wealthy country in the world without universal healthcare coverage. The US spends about three times as much per capita on healthcare expenditures than other countries with comparable incomes, yet Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in those countries. The US also leads wealthy countries in preventable deaths. In 2013, 112 out of every 100,000 Americans under 75 died from complications or conditions that could have been avoided with better healthcare.
Among developed countries, Estonia leads the way with 87 weeks of paid leave for new parents — that's more than a year and a half. Japan and several European countries — Bulgaria, Hungary, Japan, Lithuania, Austria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Norway, and Slovakia — each offer more than a year off as well.
People who hold a US passport can travel to 158 countries visa-free — a good mark, but not quite the highest in the world, according to Passport Index's annual ranking.
Germany leads the world by this metric, as the German passport allows travelers to enter 161 countries without visas. Other countries whose passports are stronger than those issued by the US include Singapore, the UK, Denmark, France, South Korea, and 12 others.
As of today, the entire world has adopted the metric system, with the exception of the United States, Myanmar, and Liberia.
The metric system, also known as the International System of Units (SI), is a system of measurement that is built on three main units: meters, liters, and grams. Since the metric system is a base 10 system of measurement, each succeeding unit of length, mass, or volume is 10 times larger than the previous one.
While the U.S. system also measures length, mass, and volume, it uses an entirely different set of units than the metric system.
Since there is no “base” rule for U.S. customary units, volume, mass, and distance are all measured differently under this system.
Measuring temperature in Fahrenheit vs Celsius falls under this heading as well.
Blessings
Jadis, QoS
USA
