It has been a particularly painful year.
Other nations despise us as weak and compromised.
We are now overly dependent upon foreign energy sources when a year ago ago energy was mostly homegrown and cheap, offering plenty of jobs.
We suffer an erosion of moral character from drifting away from our core values as ensconced within the Constitution and its basis, Christianity.
We have permitted and even encouraged and subsidized foreign invaders to come and take away jobs, rape and kill our children, and take resources within our country.
We have permitted lawlessness by lawless politicians and bureaucrats that kill our law enforcement personnel and enables criminals to freely roam without recourse of punishment.
We have decimated out military strength from prioritization of defending us and substituted social engineering programs that discourage true patriots from volunteering.
We have permitted our citizenry to be yoked to the wills of authoritative decision makers who have muzzled us and destroyed our educational system, all the while pilfering the treasury.
We have allowed those in authority to practice segregation of our citizens that destructively pits different people against each other solely on the basis of skin color, ethnicity and party affiliation, instead of concentration upon what it means to be an American.
This Senator sums up what has happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3nkaUh3hRo