United States in the world

There are over 6.7 billion people living on the planet and among them are approximately 300 million legal United States citizens. This accumulates to about 4.48% of the world population. Yet we consume over 20% of the world's energy.

The United States imports 820 billion more dollars than it exports! The sad reality is that America is the largest consumer of energy in the world yet holds only 4.48% of the world's population. That means 95.52% of the world isn't consuming as much as the average American.

So then what do other countries think of us? There are many factors involved in that, most of the countries in Europe see us as the spoiled stupid consumer. Canada and other North American countries in the first world status agree with Europe and can't stand us because of it.

The second world countries that would be in South America view us as a great powerful and cool nation that they want to aspire to be like. They try to mimic us because many of them work in factories making high quality items that will sell for more than what they will make in a pay period that will be shipped to the U.S.

Now China and India along with some other Asian countries and Cuba may be second world countries but because of their government and religion they view us as many third world countries do. They view us as the evil empire. Although news in the United States has a bias media these countries are on a whole new scale. Dictatorships where the society is closed off to the rest of the world have members that don't know or understand anything the government doesn't want them to know.

So a baseball analogy would be The U.S. is the Yankees, Europe is the Redsox and Asia is the Rays. Although the Yankees look at themselves as the greatest everyone hates them, The Redsox are similar in finance to the Yankees. While the Rays are such a low income and when they get fired up start to target and try to take out the Yankees and the Redsox but over emphasize the Yankees even when there crumbling.

If you don't follow the American League East in baseball then hopefully it has become clear that the U.S. is wealthy and hated. Europe is pretty close to the U.S. in wealth but can't stand us and the dictatorships want to annihilate us.

So we are spoiled though because we say we are in an economic crisis when we pay $4.00 a gallon of gas while Europe pays more than double that and most of the middle east doesn't have running water, electricity or a decent food supply. Our homeless population can go to a public restroom and use running water, we consume more energy than any other nation and complain it's too expensive and destroying the planet, and we have an obesity problem!

Basically we have a surplus and complain when we have too much. When you really think about it most of us don't have too much sympathy for a celebrity with hundreds of millions of dollars having there house burn down or complain about running into financial problems. That's why the world doesn't feel as much remorse for us on our economic crisis.