As you know, the job situation is dismal here in Transylvania County, and not much better over where you live.
I completely agree. These are two of the largest problems we face.
The first might be helped somewhat by a weaker dollar. The Clinton Crime Syndicate (under Capo Rubin) increased the value of the dollar 50%, thereby making foreign manufactured goods cheaper, creating a stock bubble, and ensuring a "good" - although only temporary - economy to make sure the Mob got elected. Unfortunately, it is a disaster for those manufacturing in this country. But, that's OK, It got him re-elected, and that was what was really important, right? Additionally, horrendous environmental laws and labor laws have taken their long term toll and driven a lot of viable business overseas (I know first hand as I was in an industry destroyed by them).
Illegal immigration is still the elephant on the room nobody wants to address because of the politics. It is a dagger pointed straight at our collective hearts. Almost nobody in politics has the courage to confront it, so it will get a lot worse.
Lots of other reasons, too, including a generations-long socialistic related slowdown, the wholesale destruction of American education, moral degeneration of our electorate and business producers, appalling political corrution,... and the list goes on, each the fitting subject of entire books.
On the "bright" side, most of the rest of the world is in the same going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket so in a relative sense we are not sinking as fast as we could be. We are all going down together.
But, we are not the America we should be or could be!