Yup. Truly believe you are correct and glad I'm heading in the back stretch.
I have a very simple explanation for the deteriorating economic status of the USA and most of Europe and why we will fail as the East grows more dominant:
Accomplishment, effort, and pride in work ethic has been replaced by laziness, self-aggrandizing, and unwarranted expectations from others who have the former.
Europe is our template nowadays. We will fail as they are now. But hey, we had a good run, didn't we?
And when you have fallen so far that the foolish people elect a lazy and self-aggrandizing bum as their leader there is little hope for a peaceful return to a society founded on self reliance and honesty.
We are being destroyed from within by millions of bums who expect more than they give, and who have now elected one of their own to take what they want from others.
Obama is their Golden Idol.