If you watch the show "Parking Wars" you can see the underlying reason for the decline of the United States. In spite of all our great resources, people, inventions, and glorious history, the future of the United States is exemplified by the many people who appear in that show. Spoiled, entitled, broke, and unable to understand the concept of personal responsibility, they blunder through their lives living for the next high or scam. Enraged when they have to follow the rules or pay the price, they lash out at the poor meter maids as they attempt to do their jobs and calmly explain the transgressions.
Unless America regains self reliance and personal responsibility, we will continue to decline. I lay this at the feet of liberalism and the nanny state - the destroyers of a great nation. RIP