Doesn't seem to you that America has been developing somewahat irregularly? It appears we are warping into military sphere. Military corporations intensely interested in new war conflicts and bigger military export have been transforming our economy and our life making it less humanistic and more aggressive. Their profits are huge. Still they have a watering mouth for more and more federal funding!
What about other spheres of life where problems have been only accumulating? Why are those challenges being ignored by the government? I'm a surgeon working for 15 years already. There are lots of successes in this sphere. But we owe financial donations mostly to private sector. I suspect it added to most disappointing fact that 20% of American populace has no medical insurance at all! Mind this figure is constantly on the rise! Chaotic financing and insufficient federal funding is no good for American medical sphere I believe. My husband is an ecologist and he asserts there're same problems with ecology sphere too.
You see both ecology and medical sphere relate to future while wars should belong to the past. And our political leaders at times remind me some naughty kids still captivated by war games unfortunately.....