Is the US dying?

[sbriscoe]

The responses, if any, on this topic will be interesting to say the least. Is the United States dying on the vine while we watch? Read the newspaper, watch the news (your pick of which news network), read the internet, news magazines, you name it. So much bad news, a guy in Florida commits suicide while on a webcam and many watch but few do anything of substance to prevent it. We dump millions into schools, and increase it yearly but education in the States is dismal at best compared to other developed nations. Freedom of speech is used more to spread trash and gossip rather than valid ideas. Christian speech is stifled in schools but other religions are hands off and protected. You cannot stop an Arab in an airport for fear of offending but you can search an old lady who wouldn’t know a gun if you showed it to her. If we are democrat we blame rising prices on the republicans and if we are republican we blame the democrats. Let’s blame the President even though the real power to control is in the Senate. A candidate for the Vice President is slammed for lack of experience but a Presidential candidate with no experience is hailed as the new Golden Child. We give money to corporations who have for years ripped of the consumer and when the consumer asks for help they are told no. We’ll protect the right to kill an unborn but put you in jail for mistreating an animal. If you are not of a liberal mind set then you have no right to speak your mind. We will spend billions on another country in trouble (Iraq-Afgan) but only if they have something to offer; other countries in need are ignored (African countries). I could go on and on; is it me or have we lost our way. Is it me or is this country slowly but surely going down the drain.

Your thoughts.