Weak Leadership
American politicians are different than past leaders that lead the country during the industrial-age and two world wars. No longer can the best politician run and win public office solely based on their past accomplishments, because it simply requires tens of millions of dollars in campaign funds to execute a successful office run. Due to the absorbrant cost of campaigning only the richest politicians stands a chance to winning office and not the best politician.
The current leadership is self-absorbed in building their personal wealth and winning favor with their wealthiest campaign donors. Neither the democrats nor republicans are interested in rolling up their sleeves and resolving social issues like social security, healthcare or stop the loss of high-paying jobs from leaving America's shores. American leadership is the weakest that it has ever been in the country's history.
Special Interest Groups
Special interest groups have established unprecedented access to America's most powerful politicians over the last two decades and all of the back room wheeling and dealing has cost millions of Americans their jobs. These groups represent some of the wealthiest mega-corporations and individuals in the world and they have proven that money talks and America's politicians can be bought.
Iraq War
Twice America has gone to war with Iraq in almost two decades and each time America has carelessly wasted multi-billions of dollars into wars that cannot be won. It is all about the oil and the special interest groups that are profiting hand-over-fist off of the blood of the America people and our allies. Billions of dollars of taxpayers' money are earmarked to rebuild a country that has been warring for thousands of years and somehow America is footing the bill to rebuild it. What's up with that?
Professional Politicians
America has simply way too many professional politicians that dedicate the majority of their time to winning the next election, so to keep their power rather than getting actual work for the people done. In other words, American politicians are not looking out for the American people, because they are too busy raising money and campaigning, so to look after their own best interest.
Corporate Greed
Let's face the music; the corporations in America are the real leaders of the country. Clever corporations pulls the strings of America's professional politicians like skilled puppet masters and their puppets entertain the whimsical wishes of their masters. Whether it is passing new laws that protect the chief executive officer who has been caught red-handed embezzling retirement funds or it is rewriting current laws, so to weaken the penalty for the crime. American corporations are the true powers that be in this country.
Corporate greed has resulted in some of the most damaging trade agreements that America has negotiated. America's trade agreements with China for example, has resulted in the liquidation of America's industrial backbone leaving millions of hardworking Americans unemployed, broke and dependent on the very corporations that caused the problems in the beginning.
The Stock Market
Each and every day, there are billions of shares of stock trading hands and making the rich richer and everyone else a few extra dollars. The stock market is basically a sham, because the wealthiest corporations and individuals have done a fine job talking up their companies' earnings vs. losses in such a way that the garden smells all rosy, even though the produce is really rotten. In order, to persuade the blue-collar investor to invest their lifesavings and retirement funds into a fabricated wave of prosperity that will cause millions of average people investors to pump billions of new money into the markets overnight.
The stock market is richer, because of the imaginary prosperity promises played up by the stock market analysis, brokerage houses and the corporate leadership. Without warning the wealthiest stock traders begin selling off stock in large trading blocks to the eager common traders during high demand times. The average investor suddenly is top heavy in stock ownership and poor in private savings, because every spare penny has been invested in someone else's American Dream.
Overnight, the markets turn south and starts to plunge to the bottom of the ocean, because the wealthiest investors decide it is time to cash-in some of the profits. The average investor begins to go into panic mode and dumps their stock flooding the market causing the stock prices to drop below normal price correction built-in into the markets. The wealthiest traders begin to buy stock at bargain basement prices. Thus, making the rich richer and the middle-class poorer.
Credit Dependency
Personal savings are at record lows and borrowing on credit is at record highs and this has created a generation of debt. The American government is no better at budgeting their spending and ends up borrowing trillions of dollars from foreign governments and foreign banks, so to pay for the irresponsible spending routines in Washington D.C.
