How America is Falling Behind

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HOW AMERICA IS FALLING

BEHIND

Austin Hill

Mrs. Longworth

English 2 (Honors)

2 June 2011

Period 2


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Background Info

America has always been a superpower,

but advantages long held are falling away.

And poor choices are made and havebeen made.


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Thesis.

America is slowly falling behind other

developed countries by accumulations of

debt and poor choices from thegovernment.


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America is fast accumulating large

amounts of debt. America has accumulated around 14.7 trillion

dollars of debt. Mainly to China, Japan, and the

United.

This would have been WAY more under control

if the 2001 bush tax cuts were not implemented,

which basically gave rich people money. Instead

of having a bursting tax of over 70% GDP we

would have had a smaller more controllable take

of >50% GDP.


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Americas teachers are getting

worse. Almost 40% of united states math

teachers do not even have a minor degree

in math. More and more states cut the educational

budget, reducing drive to specialize in

education.


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Other countries more readily

employ higher technology. 7% of American households employ the fastest

broadband access. Compared to the 30% in

Korea and 20% in Japan.

U.S investment in research and development

has flat lined over the last three decades, while

growing dramatically among competitors such

as Brazil, Israel, China, and India.

Many of our militarys ships are out-dated, and

our fleet is as small as it was in 1917.


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Worth of Dollar going down.

The worth of the united states dollar hasslid around 39% downward since 2002.

This will (and has) hurt consumers due to

foreign products being much moreexpensive.

As well investors are shifting from

investments in our banking systems to

investments in Europe's banking systems.


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Chinas economy quickly rising.

Chinas economy has grown by roughly

10.7% GDP. This is obviously due to

several factors

First of all they have very little debt, and

many other countries owe them money.

Second of all, a emphasis on very hard

work in their school system boosts their a

economy with a surplus of skilled labor.


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Other countries are being more

inventive. The Chinese are inventing many new

things, such as the new train, which is the

fastest commercial train in the world. (The

French tested a train that went slightly

faster.)

Frenchmen Rod Sprules invented the Java

log. A log that burns off coffee grounds.


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U.S.A economy dumping.

1.2 million jobs lost.

The U.S spent around 900 billion dollars in

a attempt to fix the economy WhenMANY leading economists advocated that

the solution to the recession was time.


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Past poor leadership.

America has been marked by poor

leadership.

No Child Left behind act caused manymusical and artistic programs to be cut.

Bush invaded Iraq on false pretenses.

Hurricane Katrina wreaking havoc and the

bridge collapse in Minneapolis should

have turned Bushs eyes to Americas

failing infrastructure, but he had no plan.


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Many Jobs outsourced.

Many United states jobs are being outsourced to

other countries, primarily India.

To add insult to injury, many recovery funds

made available to wind energy products wereused to create jobs overseas. Creating 6000

jobs overseas and only hundreds at home. The

wind energy products budget was 2 billion

dollars.


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Reverse brain drain.

Many intellectuals, primarily professors,

are leaving the united states in order to

conduct research elsewhere.

As well China graduates in a year as many

engineers as we graduate in ten. And

many of our engineers graduate from

other countries.


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Ineffective spending of cash.

Basic needs of our infrastructure, such as up

keeping roads and bridges, are being ignored.

The American Society of civil engineers issued a

report card on Americas infrastructure. We gota D.

Estimates say we need 2.2 TRILLION dollars to

fix failing infrastructure. Much less then basic

maintenance would have cost if the government

had simply kept things up.


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Conclusion.

All of these factors reflect the falling of a

great nation. Many problems could have

either been stopped or controlled with the

right, careful reactions. Unfortunately

America lacks those reactions. As for

other countries rising where America has

fallen that just reflects where our countryCOULD have been had we hopped onto

the success bandwagon.


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