Why is America so screwed nowadays?

[Sean Sweeney]

Why is America jacked up these days? I mean, if you go back 12 years, things were full of optimism and hope. The music was SO much better, people seemed a lot less fake, and Facebook and Twitter hadn't completely drowned us. Plus America has been at war almost half of my life, since 2003, really '01. Is there any chance that things will get better if we get a new President? I feel like my generation was wasted when we had so much potential. Who's to blame? 9/11, or Bush, or Obama? Or our parents?

[Quietthread094]

America's been screwed from the get-go, and we're all to blame.

[Claire Simons]

Bush was not that great, but obama made things a hell of a lot worse. Have you seen how much our national debt has increased?

China practically owns us with all that debt. Bush was also a man and a leader. Obama is a pussy with all this libya shit going on. If it were bush he would have put his foot down not apologized for them murdering our people.

America is lazy and the fattest country, that isn't going to change.