Usa People, Politics And Economy

This is the America that China’s leaders laugh at, and
. . . the rest of the democratic world despairs of.
. . . . . . Its debt is rising,
. . . . . . its population is ageing in a budget-threatening way,
. . . . . . its schools are mediocre by international standards,
. . . . . . its infrastructure rickety,
. . . . . . its regulations dense,
. . . . . . its tax code byzantine,
. . . . . . its immigration system hare-brained—and
. . . . . . it has fallen from first position in the
. . . . . .. . . World Economic Forum’s competitiveness rankings to 7 in just 4 years.
Last year both Mr Obama and his election opponent, Mitt Romney,
. . . complained about the American dream slipping away.
Today, the country’s main businesses sit on nearly $2 trillion in cash,
. . . afraid to invest, in part because corporate bosses cannot imagine
. . . . . . any of Washington’s feuding partisans fixing anything.

Source:  Interactive-Map  USA-Competitiveness