Why Can't America Be Number One in These Categories?

Inevitably an America-Watcher asks himself why American society has yet to achieve the status of best in the world in any of the following categories:

---Least Incidence of Corruption in Government by public officials of any nation in the entire world.

---The Highest Level of Full and Honest Compliance by government-owned institutions with public-information requests, of any nation in the entire world.

--- Most Energy-Efficient Nation in the entire world.

----the Most Generous Nation in the entire world at providing practically beneficial foreign aid to other nations that helps them to become as energy-efficient as possible and to comprehensively recycle disposable items and to conserve natural resources as fully and comprehensively as possible.

---Lowest Total Number of Residential or Commercial Buildings that fail to provide full and adequate insulation from the cold and the heat.

---Highest Percentage of all Energy and Largest Total Quantity of Energy Produced each year by Renewable Energy Sources, including Hydroelectric Power, Wind Power, and Solar Power.

---Largest per-capita government funding for renewable-energy scientific research of any nation in the world.

---Best and Most Comprehensive Natural-Resource Recycling Program of any nation in the world.

--Highest overall participation rate by private citizens and business entities and government-owned institutions in natural-resource recycling of any nation in the entire world.

---Best and Most Effective Water-Recycling and Water-Conservation Program of any nation in the world.

--- Most Land-Conserving Nation in the entire world.

--- Least Noise-Pollution-Plagued Nation in the entire world.

----Most Environmentally-Protective Nation in the entire world.

---Highest percentage of all fresh-water rivers and lakes that are waterways in which it is safe for private citizens to swim.

--- Most Energy-Efficient nation for its network of transporting individuals from one place to another within that nation.

---Lowest Incidence of urban sprawl and accompanying unsightliness and wastage of land and energy than any other nation in the entire world.

----Most Extensive Mass-Transportation Network throughout that entire nation of any nation in the entire world.

---Safest roadways and highways for motorists and pedestrians and bicyclists and motorcyclists of any nation in the entire world.

--- Lowest Homicide Rate and Attempted Homicide Rate in the entire world.

---Lowest Incidence of Violence or threats of violence against government officials of any nation in the entire world, that particular index of violence being a crucial barometer of a nation's level of support for democracy and civility and law-abiding conduct at all times.

----Lowest Violent Crime Rate of any nation in the entire world.

----Lowest per-capita incidence of venereal diseases (STDs) and HIV-virus-infection and contraction of AIDS of any nation in the entire world.

----Lowest Child-Abuse Rate of any nation in the world.

---Lowest Rate of Pederasty or Pedophilia or Sex Crimes in which one or more of the victims are under-age minors, of any nation in the world.

---Lowest Incidence of Sex Crimes committed by clergymen of that country that victimize under-age minors, of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest Spouse-Abuse Rate of any nation in the world.

---Lowest Percentage of all female pregnancies that are unwanted of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest per-capita incidence of congenital birth defects of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest percentage of all households in which the biological father abandoned the mother in that household without himself formally filing for divorce from his wife in a court of law within one month after he moved out of their home.

---Lowest total number of orphans waiting for an adoptive parent of any nation in the world.

---Lowest Alcohol-Addiction Rate of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest Incidence of motorists Driving While Intoxicated of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest Tobacco-Addiction Rate of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest per-capita incidence of minors consuming any tobacco product.

---Lowest Illicit-Drug Addiction Rate of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest Licit-Drug Addiction Rate of any nation in the entire world.

---Most extensive network of successful and affordable treatment programs for addiction to illicit drugs, alcohol, tobacco products, and licit drugs, those addiction-treatment programs being so successful that the rate of recidivism (in which graduates of those programs later develop an addiction of that same type) is the lowest of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest total number of reported cases of fraudulent medical care services of any nation in the world.

---Highest percentage of all residents who are themselves covered by comprehensive health insurance policies throughout their lives.

---Lowest Per-Capita Incidence of Citizens who have lost a limb or who are classified as disabled or handicapped, of any nation in the world.

---Longest creative longevity or creative lifespan for citizens of the United States of America than for citizens of any other nation in the world.

---Lowest Incidence of Reported Dementia or Senility Among Senior Citizens of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest Per-capita Incidence of addiction to gambling (involving the expenditure of money toward gambling or betting) of any nation in the world.

----Most extensive and successful network of gambling-addiction treatment programs of any nation in the entire world.

--- Lowest Illiteracy Rate of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest Poverty Rate of any nation in the world.

---Lowest Poverty Rate in Single-Parent Households of any nation in the world.

---Lowest Poverty Rate among Senior Citizens of any nation in the world.

---Lowest Unemployment Rate of any nation in the world.

---Lowest per-capita incidence of personal bankruptcies of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest reported incidence of citizens cheating on their federal income tax statements of any nation in the entire world.

---Lowest Total Number of Homeless Residents of any nation in the entire world.

--Lowest Total Number of Teenage Homeless Residents of any nation in the entire world.

----Highest Voter-Registration Rate and Highest Voter-Participation (Turnout) Rate of any nation in the world.

--- Best-Educated Citizenry in the entire world.

---Highest Percentage of Citizens of that nation with first-rate enunciation, locution, and speaking skills, of any nation in the entire world.

---Best and Most Affordable Public Lifelong-Education System of any nation in the world.

----Most Educationally Enriching Television Program Offerings of any nation in the world.

--- Most Computer-Literate Citizenry of any nation in the entire world.

----Lowest Incidence of Viruses in Computer Systems of any nation in the world.

--- Lowest Profane-Speech Incidence of any nation in the entire world.

----Lowest Incidence of Fraudulent Communications of any nation in the entire world.

--- Most Socially-Responsible Innovative Nation in the entire world.

--- Highest Per-capita incidence of creative brainstorming, accompanied by the most creative and societally conscientious use of creative brainstorming, of any nation in the entire world.

---Greatest Financial Rewards for the largest number of Law-Abiding Creative Brainstormers of any nation in the entire world.

---Greatest Financial Rewards and Societal Acclaim for courageously whistle-blowing residents---residents of the United States who in a nobly vigilant manner contact law-enforcement agencies or a government official or a work supervisor to report evidence of possibly illegal conduct they have observed---than of any nation in the entire world.