Great comments. I just don't think we are going to pull out of it. The government and financial institutions are so entrenched in moral corruptness, I don't think we can once again be the financial super power we were.
I am a Christian and one day Jesus Christ will return, Isreal will have a temple by then, the anti christ will be identified and the believers will leave this earth. No where in the Bible does it talk about a country like America. You can read about what China does in the end times, Russia, Persia, etc. no one has been able to pin point with complete accuracy where America is talked about in the Bible.
I believe that is because we are insignificant, no influence in the world, no financial or military super power just another struggling country like we are beginning to look like now!! Isn't that how the Dems want it? Save the earth, destroy America as we know it and remove any trace of God from our lives?
I'm beginning to think we may in fact be the "great whore of Babylon." When such is destroyed, John's revelation reveals that all the merchants of the earth mourn, "for who shall buy their wares," etc. (paraphrased from memory).