Take a drive through any major city and you'll see potholes, garbage all over, homeless, crumbling infrastructure, etc. Wages are down, large swaths of the population are on welfare or don't work. The value of the dollar is declining, the trade deficit is high, debt is high, the budget deficit is high, etc. Perhaps it's because I live near a big city, but things seem generally worse than they did even 20 years ago. It seems Americas golden age has ended, and we are in a downward spiral. Anyone else feel this way?