All governments in the US since 1930 have played a huge role in accumulating national debts and deficits and huge foreign debt which are now considered financial sovereign risks. Military spending and waste is a huge problem and account for 60% of the US governments National Budget. US military bases in almost every single country and a military to protect the world comes at a huge cost. 

The US government has only recorded 3 or 4 budget surpluses since 1930. Something has happened and it is now a potential  sovereign risk. Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and UK, etc are all experiencing financial sovereign risks. The US is in deep water unless it takes the measures from a bipartisan approach to turn things around. Short term pain for long term gain. The self righteous civil libertarians who dominate US Congress need to start working together but that would be too hard. 

Hey, I am the one leaving the US, because I know it's economically  doomed. You will get no argument from me :)

Meh, Militarily we haven't been challenged in a long, long time.  Taliban insurgency is not related to military strength in anyway.  We could rumble through the Taliban blowing up every building, location and position where we think we would find terrorists.    We use restraint because this isn't a war as much as a transfer of power. This isn't military force as much as a police force.

Militarily, we rumbled into Afghanistan / Iraq and had virtually no resistance. 

Bush got elected twice because the Democrats literally tried to trot,  Al Gore and John Kerry up there.  Give me a break.  This isn't even remotely close to being all Bush's fault.   The economy was waning during the final months of Clinton's presidency.

The only time it really is a Presidents fault, is when there party controls congress.

If they are opposing parties, it's Congresses fault. If you want to blame one person in Congress, then the speaker of the house is a good pick

So 2000-2006 is Bush, 2006-2008 is Nancy Pelosi, 2008-today, is Obama.

Things didn't really start to get bad until 2007, so no one is clean in this mess. 

It counts for EU aswell....it is the same raise the taxes or work longer..... I just did not mention Eu considering this was an thread about USA.. And like you say most who work 72/hours a week belong to the poverty world but the group who are not pover and still work 72/hours gets bigger..

Not really. I mean sure you could nuke every part of the country but that's not victory at all. Russia, Pakistan, India etc could do that. There are over 140,000 troops from the most powerful military body in the world with the most advanced weaponary against something like 40,000 odd Taliban armed with old Soviet arms. To not call the fight against the Taliban a war is ludicrous. It's known as the War in Afghanistan. And the US has been blowing up every building, location and position they think the enemy is in otheriwse they wouldn't be doing their job properly. And to say you rumbled through Afghanistan and Iraq isn't saying much. Iraq was incredibly weak through the Gulf War and UN sanctions and Afghanistan was hardly a military power and not even unified under the Taliban, in fact most of the foot soldiers fighting on the side of the US were from the Northern Alliance.

For the US putting down an insurgency is once again proving to be far tougher than winning a conventional war. I think in any conventional war the US would win though at great cost against some of the major powers.

People like to think about negativity, but i, honestly, dont see the things that bad for the US.

Ok, i wont deny the things are not going that good, but there is plenty of time to make the things "in a good way", for the debt level, Japan has about a 220% ratio and still is there even with the old population problems and many others in their hands.

The US still has a huge working population, the debt level is sort of low, they still invest huge amounts of money in R&D and overall, i think that doing the right choices, everything will be better in time.

To start cutting the deficit, someone tell the US military that Hitler is dead and the USSR doesn't exist anymore. They can leave their bases in Germany.

I have a contrarian view on Afghanistan and Iraq:

Both were practice rounds for future urban conflicts for us and every participating nation who pledged troops.

Currently, August 2010 is the end of conventional military operations in Iraq. This has been noted in the media, but has flown under the radar.

As for Afghanistan, we are engaged in a civil war. The Taliban can be any Afghani citizen, but they dare not distinguish themselves with a uniform or noticeable piece of clothing because they would put a bulls eye on their forehead. Instead, they hide their weapons in the basement when the patrols come into town and then stone their wives and cut off the noses and ears of runaway brides once the patrols roll out.

What we should do in Afghanistan is prop up a pro-US dictator and give him carte blanche to root out and exterminate the Taliban like the rats they are.

As for the whole doom and gloom discussion, meh, the US is not the only nation feeling it at the moment. Europe, Japan and others are not doing as well as they were 5 to 10 years ago. We would be worse off as a planet, but fortunately we are not.