Is the United States heading down the toilet?

Question

Is this country going to the toilet? Do you see this country collapsing, and going through major difficulties in the near future?

Answer 1

along with the rest of the world.

hopefully the new president will dent the fate of this world a little  

Answer 2

Yes.

- Uncontrollable corporate greed.

- Politicians answering to lobbyists.

- Huge trade imbalance with China

- Celebrity and athlete worship. They are entertainers... nothing more.

- Political correctness taking the place of common sense

- Excessive CEO compensation. CEOs aren't held accountable for their actions.

- Eminent Domain. Seizure of private property to build hotels, and for profit businesses.

- Broken health care system. If health care is unaffordable for many working people then the system fails. Also the words "pre-existing condition" should not exist in health care.

- Outsourcing of jobs

- Demise of manufacturing

- Government subsidies of failing business. Bailouts at taxpayer expense.

- Too much extremism and catering to fringe and special interest groups

- Demise of the family

- Screwed up "let's sue anyone" legal system

- Disappearing middle class

- Failing educational system. America can't compete in the maths and sciences with other nations.

- Political parties that are so busy attacking each other, that they get nothing else accomplished.

- A biased, inefficient, inaccurate mainstream media network.

In 30 years America will be like the India of today. Most people will be poor. A few will be filthy rich. No middle class.

Answer 3

yes! omg! its horrible! (sorry if i offend your religious belifs) but obama is a muslim and he isnt even american!?!? and not african american or what ever not a u.s. citizen.idk but he doesnt deserve the spot because the united states is based on christianity and it has become a scary wicked place because our freedom it wayy to free and he isnt a good man to be running the country he doesnt care for his people he is a yes man(if it gets him elected as prez he dont care). russia doesnt like us and i mean dude their country and army if HUGE! we havent had problems with them since the cold war!! i think God is comiing back soon.(i need to check myself!!)  and on the news obama wouldnt swear on a bible he did it on a "quran"--muslim "bible"-- and during the pledge he turned arround backwards and wouldnt salute the flag and i  dont see how people dont see anything wrong with it. Christians here take their religious freedoms for granted! People in china are going underground in privacy just to be able to talk about god they care more about the religion more than americans do! idk whats going to happen in 1 year or 5 years form now or if we will still be here. but God is coming back and all the wrong people in the world are going somewhere they dont need to go! but im not sure if this answered your question but i gave my answer to what i thought you meant and what i thought about the united states now days! GOD BLESS!  p.s sorry so random!

Answer 4

h**l yes it is. Thanks to Bush's brain, liberals, g**s, illegal aliens, the war for oil, and many other ideas is the reason this country is in the sh*thole. I guarantee if bush wasn't president, this "country" would be in a h**l of a lot better than it is now.  

Answer 5

Yes, four major problems that could cause the collapse of the US in the not-so-distant future:

(1) The massive national debt that more than doubled under George Bush

(2) Constant meddling in the affairs of foreign countries and widespread foreign entanglements

(3) The mass influx of illegals over the border from Mexico

(4) The increasing spread of Spanish in everything which will undermine cohesiveness and communications.

Answer 6

only under an Obama administration......

Answer 7

YES

Answer 8

I think it has been in the toilet for the past 8 years now its looking up but only if we elect Obama as president.  

Answer 9

If  the Hollywood productions are anything to go by, you have all lived in the toilet for at least forty years.

Answer 10

by a lot of these answers i would say so.

"oh maybe our president will solve all our problems"

talk about a lack of caring, no sense of responsibility, or any sense what so ever.

i being the self proclaimed pessimist actually dont want to look at it that way. ah what am i getting at, i just like being argumentative for the h**l of it.

poopie go done the hole....

Answer 11

if another ******* bush clone gets elected i am moving to another coulntry as soon as i can

Answer 12

No.

No.

Possibly.  

Answer 13

If McCain gets in, we are doomed. He will continue the policy of Bush to borrow borrow borrow, which will continue to drop the value of our currency. energy prices keep rising, inflation is up then we will go into a depression

Answer 14

yep...not if i have something to do with it

Answer 15

No, the world is heading down the toilet. We're trying to keep everyone's nose above the water, but there's always a fat man standing at the edge of the pool.

Answer 16

Only if you do nothing about it. Countries are only as good as their people are.

Answer 17

oh deffiently so

Answer 18

im optimistic maybe out new president  will help bring it back

Answer 19

It's been very bad for very long and getting worse.

Go on youtube and look up, America: Freedom to Fascism.

There are eleven parts to it but it's worth the knowledge.

...then pray very hard you make it alive a free man.

Answer 20

I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting to see it in print. God help us, not that we deserve it.

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally

collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years"

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. from bondage to spiritual faith;

2. from spiritual faith to great courage;

3. from courage to liberty;

4.from liberty to abundance;

5. from abundance to complacency;

6. from complacency to apathy;

7. from apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by:

Gore: 19

Bush: 29

Square miles of land won by:

Gore: 580,000

Bush: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:

Gore: 127 million

Bush: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:

Gore: 13.2

Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy,

with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

Answer 21

already in the sewer