11 Reasons Why America Will Never Be #2

A new study released by the National Intelligence Council claims that the United States–currently the world's #1 economic superpower–will fall to second place sometime before 2030, and that China will take the top spot.

National Intelligence Council? More like National Dumb-igence Council. China may have a growing middle class, but the United States has plenty of reasons why it will always be #1, in everything.

Here are 11 of them:

11. Toppings

America is the land of plenty… of toppings. Burger? You get toppings with that. Waffle? You get toppings with that. Fro-yo? You get mad toppings with that. We even put toppings on our Constitution (amendments).

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10. Chuck Grassley's Twitter

I was doing morning run at farm. Deer killed by car in ditch. He was dead. I didn't have to"assume" anything about his condition

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) December 1, 2012

9. Eagles

Look at this m-fer soar.

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8. The Corn Palace

You remember the Corn Palace.

7. Snuggies

More than a blanket. More than a sweater. Possibly the key to world peace. It's hard to be militant in a Snuggie.

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6. Beyonce

Duh.

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5. Drive-through alcohol

You want to drink. You also want to drive. The greatest nation on earth has you covered.

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4. Most people have rights, most of the time

Good job, us!

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3. Honey Boo Boo

A plucky little girl from a poor rural town becomes a television superstar, and now has a shot at growing up to be a real housewife. Only in America.

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2. Christmas

Pretty sure we invented this. We seem to be the only ones waging war for it, year in and year out.

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1. The world's largest ball of twine

If this isn't the definition of ingenuity, we don't know what is.

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