FUN FACTS

US Headed South

Despite the strutting and posturing of its imperial president and all the gas, hoopla and fireworks on the Fourth of July, the U.S. is no longer Número Uno.

Consider these trends:

· In the 1960s, the average GNP growth was 4.1%; in the 1970s, it was 2.9%; by 1982, it was negative.

· In 1960, the U.S. accounted for 25% of the industrial nations' manufacturing exports and supplied 98% of its domestic markets. Now, the U.S. has less than a 20% share of the world market, and that share is declining.

· In 1960, U.S. automobiles had a 96% market share; today the US has about 71%. The same holds true for consumer electronics; in 1960 it was 94.4%, in 1980 only 49%. And that was before Sony introduced the Walkman!

· The U.S. standard of living, the world's highest in 1972; now it ranks fifth.

Today the trend continues, with both blue- and white-collar jobs migrating overseas. Those non-military jobs remaining offer less benefits and significantly lower salaries.

The same pattern is reflected in the areas of education, health care, the environment, and the overall quality of life.

The sole area of US supremacy lies in its momentary role as a military superpower, whose ability to rule the world has been checked by a few hundred suicide bombers.

WHY?

Does this decline correlate with creeping integration, Affirmative Action, "diversity" and Judeocentrism in all aspects of American life over the past 45 years? For serious students of historical change, a thorough investigation would yield some amazing conclusions.