We are seriously becoming a third world country. - 5300 water systems in violation of lead rules: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/us/epa-lead-in-u-s-water-system

We are seriously becoming a third world country. - 5300 water systems in violation of lead rules: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/us/epa-lead-in-u-s-water-systems/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/us/epa-lead-in-u-s-water-syste... - rank 16 in road quality http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-sad-state-of-americas-roads/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-sad-state-of-americas-roads/ -expensive, slow mobile phone service compared to rest of the world http://time.com/money/3633758/wireless-cost-us-world-ofcom/ http://time.com/money/3633758/wireless-cost-us-world-ofcom/ - Piss Poor electrical grid, with an increasing number of outages http://insideenergy.org/2014/08/18/power-outages-on-the-rise-across-the-u-s/ http://insideenergy.org/2014/08/18/power-outages-on-the-rise... - 1 out of 9 bridges are structurally deficient https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/19/transportation-for-american-us-bridges-repair/2434369/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/19/transp... - rising death rates for prime age whites due to massive drug epidemic, obesity, and loneliness http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/521083335/the-forces-driving-middle-aged-white-peoples-deaths-of-despair http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/52108333... - highest incarceration rate in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra... - highest first day infant mortality in the industrialized world http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-has-highest-first-day-infant-mortality-out-of-industrialized-world-group-reports/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-has-highest-first-day-infant-... - U.S. adults rank below average in basic educational skills https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/08/us-adults-rank-below-average-global-survey-basic-education-skills https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/08/us-adults-ran... - Expensive, broken healthcare system that bankrupts families. We spend twice OECD average on a percent GDP basis with below average results https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/Health-at-a-Glance-2015-Key-Findings-UNITED-STATES.pdf https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/Health-at-a-Glance-2015-Ke... - Expensive, broken tertiary education system that bankrupts students. We spend twice OECD average on tertiary education and get poor results. https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/spending-on-tertiary-education.htm https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/spending-on-tertiary-educa... - Awful, expensive secondary education system compared to rest of industrialized world https://data.oecd.org/pisa/mathematics-performance-pisa.htm https://data.oecd.org/pisa/mathematics-performance-pisa.htm - Slow, expensive broadband compared to rest of the world http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-falls-behind-rest-of-the-worlds-broadband-download-speeds-2017-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-falls-behind-rest-of-t... -all of the above probably contributes to us ending up poorer (in terms of median wealth) than other industrialized nations even though per capita GDP is high and taxes are low http://www.middleclasspoliticaleconomist.com/2012/07/us-trails-at-least-15-oecd-countries-in.html http://www.middleclasspoliticaleconomist.com/2012/07/us-trai...