Two simple pics depicting how fucked the US truly is. [SCARY!]

[Gleb Gamow]

Visit the site to play with the interactive map: http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20140728.htm





Make that three simple pics: http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/how-americas-top-industries-have-changed-1990-2013-1619/?mod=e2fb

[CozyLife]

ROFL! Wow. In 2009, the s*** hit the fan.

[Lethn]

Brb need to give this to my family member who thought that the U.S still has a manufacturing industry.

[Brewins]

Why manufacture expensive and respect a ton of laws when you can go abroad and manufacture cheap without many thinking about laws?

I hope the US manages a way to export health care and social services, seems it is what they do best ATM

[qwk]

The transition from industrial to service society is usually considered a good thing (aka progress), so how exactly is it that you see something scary in these pictures?

[DrG]

Why manufacture expensive and respect a ton of laws when you can go abroad and manufacture cheap without many thinking about laws?

I hope the US manages a way to export health care and social services, seems it is what they do best ATM

And that my friends is why America's best is BFL and Cointerra while China's best is Avalon (the first Bitcoin ASIC) and Bitmain.

Save a penny today, lose a million tomorrow.

[der_troll]

Everything is made in China more and more people eat junk food so this is not a surprise.

[DDuckworth]

You can't just look at two figures for the overall factoring of the state of a country.

[richierich]

The amount of food Americans eat surely has had detrimental effect on there health.

[vm1990]

what can we say its only America its not like anything important happens there.

[Starscream]

That's Capitalism for ya.

Manufactures moving to cheaper countries so all you're left with is selling services.

[2dogs]

Ok, so we know this.

What is more fucked is  - what's coming up for the future, and how and if this can be turned around?

God help us -  we are so fubar.

EDIT:  or maybe not, just let it implode, sooner the better - start anew quicker.