Weekly Geekly Did You Know?..The United States has a teen pregnancy rate of 22 percent - the highest in the world. New Zealand is number two at 14 percent. The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin. Puerto Rico is number two. Perhaps Puerto Rico really would fit in as the 51st state. More people have been diagnosed with mental disorders in the United States than in any other nation on earth. The United States has more government debt per capita than Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland or Spain. If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days. The U.S. national debt is now more than 22 times larger than it was when Jimmy Carter became president. It took from the founding of the nation until 1981 for the U.S. national debt to cross the one trillion dollar mark. Today, our national debt is well over 16 trillion dollars and we add more than a trillion dollars to our debt every single year.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:37:53 +0000
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