Is the US struggling for tourists? The visit USA ad seems to be in TV every five minutes…

@SumKindaMunster I'm not talking about the drop from 2020 to 2021. I'm talking about the drop from 1990 to 2020. There was a brief spike in murders after the COVID lockdowns ended, but that has ended by now with levels returning to where they were before.

The old FBI database was problematic as it relied on voluntarily-reported statistics from local police departments, with no vetting or verification. I don't know enough about the new system to comment on it, but the old one was definitely inaccurate with a potential for racial bias. However, the drop in violent crime over the past several decades is real regardless of any reporting inaccuracies.

@PinkMoon stay out of gun free zones (democrat areas) you are very safe

@graphite Africa is made up of 54 countries according to the UN🙂

@Anniedlr Yes, I know there's several dozen of them. Nigeria, Eritrea, Egypt, etc.

@Anniedlr

Oh! In other words, the USA is just like Africa then, right? In all honesty, that makes perfect sense from how the USA portrays itself on the world stage.

@whowasthatmaskedman
That's actually totally true. Thanks for raising that point!

@SandWitch A point linked to this: According to Trump the Harris financial plan will add a trillion dollars to the international debt. While the Wharton School (Trumps own Alma Mater) have released their own analysis of Trumps own plan and say it will add six trillion dollars with no effort made to repay any of it.😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

What's also interesting to add to that is that Trump actually attended the University of Pennsylvania which is loosely affiliated with the Wharton School of Business.

Trump graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the U of P. Donald J. Trump however, did not actually attend Wharton even for a single day according to Wharton's student attendance records dating back to the late 1960's, nor did Trump graduate from anywhere in the world with an MBA to his credit which he advertises to the contrary that he did.

@jshm2
If only that were true!

@jehova Lets be fair. If you are in a country where your family is in danger of starvation and in dnager from being killed, or arrested and "disappeared" by the authorities, America is still an attractive country to run to. But give it time. It will catch up..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman if u consider ever rising food prices in america and gun violence which, is rampant. Although random arrest and 'disappearing' is less of a risk. Im unconvinced living in america is actually any better or safer.

@jehova Thats sort of my point. Everything is relative. In some places like Gaza it would be enough for the bombing to stop. But why on earth would anyone from a socially developed country want to go to America as it is now for anything other than business...?😷

@Darksideinthenight2 That’s less than a million people per nation. You have almost that many for every two states

@BadAssTunaBotHoe NO!!!

@BadAssTunaBotHoe leave fat and happy with your new ammo

@Colonelmustardseed I heard Los Vegas is really expensive now compared to 20 years ago.

@JimboSaturn Yeah. Everything is. Travel is hard now. 😔

@jehova Absolutely true.. The only way to pay off international debt is with money from other countries..

@Darksideinthenight2 newsflash: US Jobs Revised Down By 818,000 In Election Year Shocker, Second Worst Revision In US History

get with the program.

@Dignaga If it was in recession it would be full of tourists (lower prices domestically due to, you know, the very definition of "recession" and therefore attractive to foreign visitors), not the other way around lol

@Dignaga We’re not in a recession, unless you define it as “I can’t find a job.”

@Steph34 There is a large hole in Toledo, Ohio people like to look down into. Department of Transportation hasn't gotten around to fixing it, been years.

@Steph34
Most any of the over 60 National Parks and many more State parks scattered around the US. It's a huge country, which region were you considering visiting?

@Steph34 There are 430 units run by the National Park Service (NPS), including these designations

National Park 63
National Monument 84
National Lakeshore (3)
and National Seashore (10) 13
National Memorial 31
National Preserve (19)
and National Reserve (2) 21
National Recreation Area 18
National River (4)
and National Wild and Scenic River (10)
14
National Parkway 4
National Historical Park (63),
National Historic Site (76),
and International Historic Site (1)
140
National Military Park (9),
National Battlefield Park (4),
National Battlefield Site (1),
and National Battlefield (11) 25
National Scenic Trail 6
Other Designations 11

Totals 430

with a total area of

85,155,967.25 acres (344,614 km2)
(See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park_Service)

With Germany at 357,581 km^2 of total land & sea area, the US NPS contains an area 96.4% of Germany's size, and would fall between Germany and the Republic of the Congo (342,000 km^2) if it were its own country.

(See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area)

@Darksideinthenight2 That’s just lovely…but not what I was talking about.

@pancakeslam That would be cruel

@Ceinwyn 😂 OK then