50 Facts That Show How Far America Has
Fallen In This Generation
By Michael Snyder, on September 18th, 2014
#1 According to a survey that was just conducted, only 36 percent of all Americans can name the three branches of government.
#2 Only 25 percent of all Americans know how long U.S.
Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20 percent of all Americans know how many U.S.
senators there are.
#3 Even if you include same-sex
couples in the numbers, the marriage rate in the United States is at a 93 year
low.
#5 31.1
percent of
American young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living
with their parents.
#6 One
out of every ten teen
girls in America engages in “self-harm”. Cutting and burning are the most
common forms that this “self-harm” takes.
#7 One survey found that 85 percent of all young men in America and almost half of all young women in America watch
porn at least once a month.
#8 A different survey
discovered that 64 percent of American men of all ages view
pornography at least once per month.
#9 The Internet can be used
for great good, but it can also be used for great evil. It is being reported
that 83 percent of U.S. boys and 57 percent of U.S. girls have been exposed to
group sex while on the Internet.
#10 One survey discovered
that 25 percent of all employees that have
Internet access in the United States visit sex websites while they are at work.
#11 There is an epidemic of
porn watching among federal employees. For example, one Treasury
Department worker said that he viewed 13,000 pornographic images within the
span of six weeks because he did “not
have enough work to do“.
#14 Americans account for
about five percent of the global population, but we buy more
than 50 percent of
the pharmaceutical drugs.
#16 According to a study
conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one
prescription drug, and 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five
prescription drugs.
#20 Back in 1962, only 13
percent of all
Americans were obese, but it is being projected that 42 percent of all Americans could be obese by the
year 2030.
#22 40 percent of all workers in the United States
actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968
after you account for inflation.
#23 Small business ownership
in the United States is at the lowest level that
has ever been recorded.
#26 The United States has the highest incarceration rate and the largesttotal
prison population in
the entire world by a wide margin.
#27 While Barack Obama has
been in the White House, the U.S. national debt has grown by more than 7 trillion dollars.
#28 During the Obama years,
sexual assaults in the U.S. military have soaredto an all-time high,
and most of the assaults have been male on
male.
#29 According to one
absolutely shocking study, 22 military veterans kill themselves
in the United States every single day.
#30 The top Democrat in the
U.S. House of Representatives is Nancy Pelosi. The top Republican in the
U.S. House of Representatives is John Boehner. More often than not, they
seem to be working
together. Is this really the best that America can do?
#32 At this point,
approximately one out of every three children in the United States lives in a home
without a father.
#33 18 percent of all women in the United States say
that they have been raped at some point in their lives.
#34 It is estimated that one
out of every four girls
will be sexually abused before they become adults.
#35 Approximately one-third
of the entire population of the United States (110
million people) currently has a sexually transmitted disease
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
#38 Americans in the 15 to
24-year-old age group account for about
50 percent of all
new STD cases each year.
#39 It costs our nation
approximately 16
billion dollars a year to
treat our sexually transmitted diseases.
#40 According to one survey, 24 percent of all U.S. teens that have STDs say
that they still have unprotected sex.
#41 In the United States
today, more than
half of all
couples “move in together” before they get married.
#42 For couples that have
children that are just “living together”, two-thirdsof
them split up by the time they have a child turn 10 years of age.
#43 For women under the age
of 30 in the United States, more than half of all babies are being born out of wedlock.
#44 According to a study
conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately
two-thirds of all
Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket have engaged in oral sex.
#45 Suicide has now actually
surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of “injury death” in the United States.
#46 In a massacre that is
almost unspeakable, more than 56 million American babies have been slaughtered in this country
since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973.
#47 Approximately 47 percent of the women that get an abortion each
year in the United States have also had a previous abortion.
#48 The number of American
babies killed by abortion each year is roughly equal to the number of U.S. military deaths
that have occurred in all of the wars that the United States has ever fought
combined.
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