[Noamie]

I don’t take the past 6-8 years as some forecast for the next 20. I think the dollar’s decline is specifically related to our current President.

Just like gas and energy prices.

I see an American come-back in our future that will rival the 80’s IF we are fortunate enough to get some decent leadership in the next President.

Otherwise, yeah - we be screwed for a very, very long time.

[Alberta's Child]

I don't see the country's leadership as the problem. I see it as a symptom of a much larger problem.

Changing the leadership without fixing the underlying cultural and social foundations of this country won't do a damn thing.

[RoadGumby]

Electing one man, hoping in one man, is folly.

It is the electorate which has been co opted and dumbed down and made dependent and immoral.

As such, this trend WILL continue, unless the change that is necessary, an electorate craving freedom and sanity and moral-justness, is re-established. Pending that, hold on for the ride.