We're number one!!
from the book
Stupid White Men
by Michael Moore
Among the top twenty industrialized
nations,
we're number one!
We're number one in millionaires.
We're number one in billionaires.
We're number one in military spending.
We're number one in firearm deaths.
We're number one in beef production.
We're number one in per capita energy
use.
We're number one in carbon dioxide emissions
(more than Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Indonesia,
Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the United Kingdom combined).
We're number one in total and per capita
municipal waste (720 kilograms per person per year).
We're number one in hazardous waste produced
(by a factor of more than twenty times our nearest competitor,
Germany).
We're number one in oil consumption.
We're number one in natural gas consumption.
We're number one in the least amount of
tax revenue generated (as a percentage of gross domestic product).
We're number one in the least amount of
federal and state government expenditure (as a percentage of GDP).
We're number one in budget deficit (as
a percentage of GDP).
We're number one in daily per capita consumption
of calories.
We're number one in lowest voter turnout.
We're number one in number of political
parties represented in the lower or single house.
We're number one in recorded rapes (by
a factor of almost three times our nearest competitor-Canada).
We're number one in injuries and deaths
from road accidents (almost twice as many as runner-up Canada).
We're number one in births to mothers
under the age of twenty (again, more than twice as many as Canada,
and nearly twice as many as number two New Zealand).
We're number one in the number of international
human rights treaties not signed.
We're number one among countries in the
United Nations with a legally constituted government to not ratify
the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We're number one in number of known executions
of child offenders.
We're number one in likelihood of children
under the age of fifteen to die from gunfire.
We're number one in likelihood of children
under the age of fifteen to commit suicide with a gun.
We're number one in lowest eighth-grade
math scores.
We're number one in becoming the first
society in history in which the poorest group in the population
are children.
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