Has America Failed?

There is a lot going all over the world, and here, in America, things are not looking nice. The national debt is over 15 billion dollars, kids are dropping out of high school and college, more and more low income families are staying in poverty, rather than working their way out, and the U.S. Government is still fighting this imaginary kind of mini cold war against an enemy that, not only does not exist, but also has taken our personal liberties away. The need of our government to see our nation as this great empire that only keeps on growing and getting stronger is just ridiculous. The United States is in deep doo doo. The unemployment rate is just bizarre, the poverty rate is pretty high, and financing wars in the middle east is just not working. If the current administration does not react to this, whoever the next president is, regardless of the party they belong to, is going to live hell for 4 years.
The old excuse of "BUSH F*CKED UP" just does not work anymore.