[Nowhere Man]

In hindsight 9-11 marked the beginning of the end of American economic power.

I think it started around 1973 or so, but I think if you had to pick a true moment when we "jumped the shark" economically, 9-11 is a huge part of that along with these endless wars and bungled strategy from Obongo in the last few years. Still the rot started in the Vietnam Era, hence 1973, had we not had a bad recession in the 1970's, perhaps we would have went further into space.

[fatnotlazy]

I'm going to say the prelude occurred in 1964 with Johnson's War on Poverty. The makings of the EBT/Obamaphone gimme, gimme class started there. Once this nation made poverty acceptable and removed the shame from collecting government assistance, we just went downhill from there. The decline started slowly, but it has accelerated at an alarming rate under the benevolent king in the White House.