The United States has a generally strong anti-corruption and governance framework, through troubling exceptions exist, contributing to recent high-level lobbying and corruption scandals. Official secrecy is increasing. Lobbyists exploit loopholes in campaign finance regulations. The United States lacks a true ombudsman; instead a collection of oversight agencies, few of them truly independent, monitor different aspects of governance. The Inspectors General (IG), a key element of this framework, has received considerable political pressure, and IG appointments often go to party loyalists. In the civil service, political appointments made by the president without congressional approval have increased 33 percent between 2000 and 2005 (FEMA leadership during Hurricane Katrina was an example of these appointments at work).
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the United States of America is The World's Worst Prison State: "In 2006, over 7.2 million people were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole at yearend 2006 -- 3.2% of all U.S. adult residents or 1 in every 31 adults." - U.S. Department of Justice. Ignoring State Jails and Probation and only taking Federal Prisoners the U.S. has 1,587,403 more federal prisoners than in China; 1,307,001 more than in Russia; 1,799,543 more than in Brazil and 1,813,544 more than in India, yet these countries has significantly larger populations.
The United States is not entitled to talk about human rights as it is the world's worst human rights abuser. In the U.S. the absolute majority of working people are like more dead than alive with their elementary rights to clothing, food and housing deprived. The right to labor, one of major rights related to existence, is ruthlessly violated there. As for election, it strictly serves the rich only. The corruption of cultural life is institutionally fostered, thus leaving a great number of people degenerated and hopeless and pushing them to committing crimes. The U.S. tops the world list of violators abusing human rights by all sorts of discrimination. The U.S. violates rights of other countries as it pleases. After the "September 11 incident" it escalated wars of aggression against several countries under the pretext of "war on terrorism" while savagely infringing upon human rights in different parts of the world. The U.S. had better address its own human rights issue before conducting human rights campaign on the international arena.
The U.S. has also made the list of The World’s Worst Advisors: Douglas J. Feith, Former under secretary of defense for policy, United States. Feith is widely considered to be one of the chief authors and planners of the Iraq war. The Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon, which he oversaw, took charge of postwar planning and was instrumental in projecting troop levels for the occupation.
The world's worst polluters have been revealed: The United States comes second in the table on nine tonnes per person.
The US has the world’s worst preponderance of child molestation. Even religious figures have actively participated in such disgraceful activity. If our children have to grow up in danger and unable to
mature naturally and freely, what sort of adults do we expect to have later on? The US also has the world’s highest rate of serial and mass murderers. Numerous acts of murder and child molestation in our society signals severe mental/social problems; and I see little to suggest intensive investigation by political, religious, social, and academic leaders to uncover the underlying causes of this growing horrendous cultural cancer.
Millions of people go uninsured in the US; their health is provably at dire risk as a result of this condition. We spend billions of dollars on Congressional pet projects, few of which fill any legitimate and
important need except for a select few who are politically connected. Such less than urgent projects and the money and time devoted to them are designed to better insure incumbents’ re-elections rather than allot sufficient funding for quality universal health care. When basic health is endangered, individual productivity and self-image are equally at risk.
The US has an alarmingly high rate of school drop outs and of illiteracy among adults. Students obviously either receive defective/deficient educations or they do no pay attention as the unbelievably high rate of students entering college requiring remedial courses attest. A poorly educated society is one on the verge of decay.
Homelessness is a shameful condition for millions of Americans. For the dollars we spent invading Iraq, we could have provided every homeless individual/ family in America a new home. We
need to demand that sensible, defendable, and humane priorities be set in our society. The huge uninvolvement in our culture as measured by so many who refuse to vote allows the few who do get engaged to decide on vital issues for the rest of us.
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