The U.S. leads in putting our children and grandchildren in debt to live beyond our means today and to reward fraudsters and the irresponsible.
The US leads the world in hours of television watched: http://www.economist.com/research/a...ystory.cfm?subjectid=7933596&story_id=9527126 and as a result of television telling Americans for most of their waking hours to buy, buy, buy, they're leading the world in most statistics for debt