On average, empires survive 250 years.....we are coming up on 248. Signs are there. We will beat the average but the writing is on the wall. It's not unusual for the decline to be self inflicted but ours will become a case study. Future generations will ask their teachers if they are telling the truth......because the truth will be so unbelievable that it deserves questioning. Their faces will show the shocked disbelief but the facts will speak for themselves. It will tell like a bad joke but it will be fact. History will remember us as fools. The morals, intestinal fortitude, good will, foresight, unity & patriotism of our Forefathers will have been wasted.