Where are we headed as a country?
459411
straight to hell. If any more right wing fanatics and oil execs take control of this country, then we're probably headed for yet another war in the middle east (Iran), and that will be the end.
883296
Hopefully, then the USA next.
1078429
i think it's a ways off, after we get to a point of superior technology among more countries and we first reach a point of peace, which then is breached will we be at a point of true chaos.  But here at home in the U.S due to our inbred prejudice and diverse background, we have already started our fight.
891222
Be good citizen!\nRemember :"Right or wrong is my country"
886904
I don't think we have reached the point of no return but I do think we are dangerously close to getting to that point.  I don't pretend to be a  political expert by any stretch, just an average person so I may be wrong, but it seems to me that we are way too anxious to go all over the world to fight battles for who ever cries for help while leaving our own borders wide open.  We have terrorism going on in our own country everyday with freaks like the guy who went into the Amish school and shot 10 little girls killing 5 of them.  I don't know what the average daily number of homicides is in this country but I know that in our state capitol, the number this year is staggering.  Drive by shootings, murder - suicide and random acts of violence are nothing but homeland terrorism.  That, coupled with the horridous influx of illegal immigrants has made this a scary place to live.  I think we need to stop trying to save the world and work on saving our nation.  I completely support our troops and the work they do every day all around the world and am actually the mother of a military person but I still think we need to use our military here at home to close our borders, protect us from incoming threats and concentrate on Homeland Security.  How can we save the world if we can't save ourselves?  (you said you wanted detailed answers! :)
778697
As the Youngest of the real countries we sort of had our choice and became the first Succesful Republic Democracy with A capaitalist monetary system and a Social conscience.  We give more money to the world then ALL Other countries combined and have the greatest Allies on the earth.  Perfect nope but we are heading there I would suggest you join us.
901882
Bout time..aren't we ready for a change?  Let's bring our troops home and get our country out of the shape it's in...
965395
It won't be any one single individual; it'll be a group of brave, caring thinkers ... much the same as the brave thinkers that gathered and formed our Constitution.\n\nIt was Thomas Jefferson who believed that a country needed to undergo a revolution every 200 years to stay on track.  Our Founding Fathers proved that the course of a country could be changed; I believe that we as a nation still carry many of their beliefs, values and strengths.
390887
Are going???????  ...Don't you really mean to say: Have already gone?    ...Indeed, we are looking at a very sad and dangerous heading for our hard-fought democracy.   Poor founding fathers have been shaking in their bones for some time now, I'm afraid.   I truly wonder: Have we really taken good enough care of the wonderful and immeasurable heritage they had left us?   It is much harder to recover our lost liberties than to lose them.   ...The worst crimes in this world have always been committed and justified in the name of the best and the holiest of intentions.
316916
To quote a popular political pundit's recent column:\n\nTry showing up in any other country on the planet, illiterate and penniless, and announcing: "I've seen pictures of your country and it looks great. I think I'd like to live here! Oh, and by the way, would you mind changing all your government and business phone messages, street signs and ballots into my native language? Thanks!"
804660
Where and which part of the country.
379511
I think we're potentially heading in that direction.  I don't believe the US will be totalitarian communist, but economic socialists like the French.  France is basically a Marxist nation in terms of its economic policy.  I already see the US trending in this direction.  When did healthcare become an entitlement?\n\nI suppose I'd probably move to Australia.
942428
Hopefully everything will go smoothly. If it doesn't this could be a huge turning point for our country. I hope people won't stand for it and take to the streets.
996042
Decline in some areas, maybe (manufacturing comes to mind)...but in terms of research, development, and especially services...these are what will buoy the US over the next fifty years.\n\nThis is what happens during the development of a one-world economy. The idea of the nation is, in some ways, obsolete.
117627
I would first make all americans realise that this great country build on solid christian foundations realise that we have gone astray from the biblical principals and the convictions of our founding fathers. I would call for a fast and ask the nation to rededicate itself to God and cleanse the nation of all ungodliness and get rid of all idolatory and sin and once again urge people to honour God and follow what God wants us to do.
971047
sort this country out once and for all
33634
i dont know that I see it as the next third world.  But I do see it slumping close to it.  We are as a nation losing power, wealth, reputation.  I have been abroad and I can tell you the picture that Europeans paint of us is not always nice.  Economically we are losing our footing.  Banking, cars, products in general.  People in america and abroad are buying European products, Jananese proiducts.  It doesnt do our economy any good and yet as far as I can tell they have done nothing to change this.  We are busy fixing the lives of others however we havent taken the time to take care of our own citizens lives.  And you have other countries offering us help becase we are unable to do so because of the mess we have created else where.  I truly believe we are losing our super power status and becoming just another country that exists on the planet.  Living abroad I dont like telling people i am from america because it starts up alot of contoversy.  Alot of arguments as to what it means to be an american and what we have become.  I agree with you when you wake up and smell the coffee. you arent smelling folgers any more.  Its just the reality we are forced to swallow as americans and it isnt easy for us I think.