[Mind-numbed Robot]

But some of the trends seem real. It's hard to ignore all that debt, record immigration - legal and illegal, rapid rises in energy prices, increasing religious turmoil and confrontation, signs of environomental stress.

There are several kinds of debt - personal, business, government - but a booming economy works toward mitigating them all. The immigration is also of two kinds, as you note, but both are usually put immediately to work, again increasing economic activity and adding rather than subtracting from the economy.

The other two - religious turmoil and confrontation and "signs of environmental stress" - are sometimes real and sometimes just liberal ballyhoo. Either way, their impetus is from the liberals and the liberals are working more to destroy our country than improve it.

Domestic religious turmoil is the result of liberals trying to eliminate Christianity, first, and all religion later. International religious turmoil is laid at the feet of the Democrats friends, the Islamists.

I'll have to confess I have not seen the environmental stress you mentioned and especially none that affect the economy. If you are talking about "Global Warming" I relegate that to the Grimm's Fairy Tales corner.

[liberallarry]

I admit that debt and immigration are not necessarily disasterous.

International religious turmoil is laid at the feet of the Democrats friends, the Islamists.

You can lay blame but you can't deny the increase in turmoil.

I'll have to confess I have not seen the environmental stress you mentioned and especially none that affect the economy

Smog. Toxic waste. Depletion of fish stocks. Water pollution due to agricultural runoff. Depletion of forests, oil sources, and other natural resources. Those come to mind immediately.