Debt, Irresponsibility, Lack of education, lack of motivation to acquire said education (public library, wikipedia, expensive university, wherever), and a general sense of invincibility are reasons why America is coming unraveled.

Because................. 

it wants to? Much more importantly, ( admittedly i live in eggland ) why am I falling apart........ and if the answer is glue, what sort and how much? Yours... Just-About-Hanging-Together Humpty.

I'm going to suggest the white glue. It won't get you as high, but it's cheaper. Also useful for school projects and making Gluesicles.

testing a new computer 

but for sure the capitalist system in the US has nudged towards the diminishing returns part of the expansion curve, which means less opportunity for easy profits, so Wall St has resorted to gutting its stupider investors with byzantine capital instruments like derivatives, CDOs etc. And the current economic crisis is the crater they made. I'm quite OK with capitalism actually, but I draw the line when in order for one group to win, other groups have to "lose" through system collapse or fraud. In other words, corporate robbery. Ok, enough politics and testing.

Okay, if anyone can give me the exact names of the "small elite" that so many documentaries and avid protestors seem to know so much about - but you don't get any points for saying "Rothchild" or "them" or "IMF" of "World Bank" or Freemasons" or "Illuminati." Gotta have names, dates, pictures - proof if you got it. Let's not turn this into a "faith" based religion. It's no secret that you make money from selling weapons and that you sell more weapons when you can create wars. Anything to add to this?