According to CNN, almost 50 percent of Americans worry  that the US is likely to slip into another Great Depression within the next  twelve months. 
The Guardian postulates that America is in an advanced state of  cultural decadence and that it can be compared now with Rome prior to its fall.  While the US is facing higher annual interest rates on the huge national debt of  14.34 trillion dollars, it provides hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign  aid to some of the world's richest countries, while at the same time borrowing  billions back from them. What IS going on in our nation, and WHY?