Why is that everithing is plummeting in USA?

Question

New Orleans, Mines, Bridges,Wall Street...
As a possible future illegal , I am worried that USA can become a sh+th*le.

thanks hoo, everithing was looking strange...

8 trillon dollars debt ?!!

Answer 1

The USA is "No. 1" in nothing but weaponry, consumer spending, debt, and delusion.
http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp

America by the numbers
No. 1?

No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled "un-American." We're an "empire," ain't we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're No. 1. Well...this is the country you really live in:
The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).
The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).
"The International Adult Literacy Survey...found that Americans with less than nine years of education 'score worse than virtually all of the other countries'" (Jeremy Rifkin's superbly documented book The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, p.78).
Our workers are so ignorant and lack so many basic skills that American businesses spend $30 billion a year on remedial training (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). No wonder they relocate elsewhere!
"The European Union leads the U.S. in...the number of science and engineering graduates; public research and development (R&D) expenditures; and new capital raised" (The European Dream, p.70).
"Europe surpassed the United States in the mid-1990s as the largest producer of scientific literature" (The European Dream, p.70).
Nevertheless, Congress cut funds to the National Science Foundation. The agency will issue 1,000 fewer research grants this year (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004).
Foreign applications to U.S. grad schools declined 28 percent last year. Foreign student enrollment on all levels fell for the first time in three decades, but increased greatly in Europe and China. Last year Chinese grad-school graduates in the U.S. dropped 56 percent, Indians 51 percent, South Koreans 28 percent (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004). We're not the place to be anymore.
The World Health Organization "ranked the countries of the world in terms of overall health performance, and the U.S. [was]...37th." In the fairness of health care, we're 54th. "The irony is that the United States spends more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world" (The European Dream, pp.79-80). Pay more, get lots, lots less.
"The U.S. and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world that do not provide health care for all their citizens" (The European Dream, p.80). Excuse me, but since when is South Africa a "developed" country? Anyway, that's the company we're keeping.
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Answer 2

Blame people who do not tell the truth about the financial future of the US.

Democrats and Republicans keep people in the dark.

The following applies to every US citizen.

Answer 3

I think the main reason is the lack of education kids are getting in our public schools. A large percentage of high school kids today can't even spell the word everything.

Answer 4

Stay where you are; don't come here. We're better off without another illegal.

As for everything plummeting, to an extent you're correct; every since FDR's presidency, his "progressive" reforms and those that have followed are unraveling this nation at the seams.

Answer 5

The American Empire is crubling just like all of the other great empires of the past!

Answer 6

because instead of spending on our own infrastructure with our tax dollars like we should be we are taking care of Mexico and illegals

Answer 7

Not everything: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
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Some parallels w/ Atlas Shrugged:
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Answer 8

**Crime is up. Immorality is up. Illegal immigration is up. Abortion is up.Drug use is up. I blame it all on the liberals and their just-let-everyone-do- whatever-they-want-to-do attitudes. No one wants to be accountable for anything.

Answer 9

Seems like the IQ of posters on Y!A is plummeting also....

Answer 10

50 trillion in wealth!

More blacks than ever own their own homes. Thank you president Bush.