The United States is one of the three remaining countries that use imperial units.The other two are converting to fully metric,with the United States having no intention to.The picture I have posted shows a map of metric and imperial countries,the metric ones being gray.As you see,most of the map is gray.We use the Imperial Standard system because it was handed down to us by our British Masters.It seems clear that since we broke their politicial chains of oppression centuries ago that must throw off the chards that remain today.They have kept us from being the best nation we can.America has 10% unemployment and this will create temporary employment for putting up metric signs,mailing metric conversion packets,people confident in the metric system could teach classes.In the 1980's,the government had proposed a bill to switch America to metric,but lack of will stopped it from happening.Would the change happen overnight?No,it would happen little by little.A change by 2026 could be successful by starting in 2013.The first three years,the states on the coasts of The United States would switch to the metric system.The next three years,the states touching the ones on the coasts would switch.The next three years,the states touching those would switch.Then the last three years,the remaining states would switch.The education system teaches the metric system teaches metric in school,so everybody would be confident in the metric system.Having both systems on food is not enough.We have already lost a $123 million-dollar space orbiter via confusion of imperial and metric units.We use a base 10 number system,so why can't me multiply by 10's?.