Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, CO

#1 In more than half of all states in the United States of America, the highest paid public employee in the state is a football coach.

#2 Almost half of all Americans (47 percent) do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings.

#3 Apple has more cash than the U.S. Treasury.

#5 The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island, but Rhode Island has a significantly larger population than Alaska does.

#6 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put together.

#7 The city of Juneau, Alaska, is about 3,000 square miles in size. It is actually larger than the entire state of Delaware .

#8 When LBJ's "War on Poverty" began, less than 10 percent of all U.S. children were growing up in single parent households. Today, that number has skyrocketed to 33 percent.

#9 In 1950, less than 5 percent of all babies in America were born to unmarried parents. Today, that number is over 40 percent.

#10 The poverty rate for households that are led by a married couple is 6.8 percent. For households that are led by a female single parent, the poverty rate is 37.1 percent.

#11 In 2013, women earned 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees that were awarded that year in the United States.

#12 According to the CDC, 34.6 percent of all men in the U.S. are obese.

#13 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 30,000 lbs. of food each year. Meanwhile, approximately 20 percent of the garbage that goes into our landfills is food.

#14 According to one recent survey, 81 percent of Russians now have a negative view of the United States. That is much higher than at the end of the Cold War era.

#15 Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.

#16 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California. But no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.

#17 One recent survey discovered that "a steady job" is the number one thing that American women are looking for in a husband, and discovered that 75 percent of women would have a serious problem dating an unemployed man.

#18 According to a study conducted by economist Carl Benedict Frey and engineer Michael Osborne, up to 47 percent of the jobs in the United States could soon be lost to computers, robots and other forms of technology.

#19 The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially is in Hawaii.

#20 The original name of the city of Atlanta was "Terminus".

#21 The state with the most millionaires per capita is Maryland.

#22 One survey of 50-year-old men in the U.S. found that only 12 percent of them said that they were "very happy".

#23 The United States has 845 motor vehicles for every 1,000 people.

#24 48 percent of all Americans do not have any emergency supplies in their homes what so ever. Even fewer have fire extinguishers.

#25 There are three towns in the United States that have the name "Santa Claus".

#26 There is actually a town in Michigan called "Hell". (I wonder how far down the road from Detroit that is?)

#27 If you have no debt and also have 10 dollars in your wallet ... you are wealthier than 25 percent of all Americans.

#28 By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.

And now the summary.!. Once upon a time we were the most loved and most respected nation on the entire planet. If you look close enough, you can still see many of the things that once made this country a shining beacon to the rest of the world. This article includes some weird facts, some fun facts, but also some very troubling facts If we are ever going to change course as a nation, we need to come to grips with just how far we have fallen.

Good friends are like quilts - they age with you, and yet, they never lose their warmth. Take good care of them....

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

bahmer

I just came across some old Carol Burnett videos with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway talk about talent where has all the talent gone they could make you laugh without obscenities.

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

A cable channel, MeTV, has them on each night. And, you are quite correct, they are hilariously funny.

bahmer

You can't find talent like that any more the standards ave been lowered so far that all the comedians know how to do today is total profanity. Don't they realize that fifty years ago that their stuff would be so censored it never ever would have been shown on TV. Also thos e comedians and actors all volunteered in the armed forces and they all did their part in WWII. Hell all of our snowflakes and cupcakes today would never even make it in yesterdays army as they would all be dead by the middle of boot camp if they made it that far.

Alicia Loc: NYC

***********************
Why didn't you post the url.

bahmer

When I follow other posts on here I accidentally come across them on the right side and then I start watching the old episodes and get carried away. Almost any post with Trey Gowdy or anything or anybody else will likely have some of Carol Burnett on the side.

GmanTerry

Me TV is the 1950s-1960s TV channel. It has all the old shows of my childhood like the Rifleman and Gunsmoke. Also, the commercials are short, None of thee five minute commercial breaks. If you like old TV shows, Me TV is for you.

Semper Fi

bahmer

Is that on direcrtv by chance?

GmanTerry

I have DirecTV, not to my knowledge. I get it off the Air with an antenna and a TIVO.

Semper Fi