We as a nation are rapidly moving in the direction of irrelevancy and irreverency. We aren’t needed and in all honesty we have become a liability.
  How could this be?
  Let’s start with irrelevance.
  Oil consumption in the United States is at 20.7 million barrels per day, most people do not realize that a barrel of oil equals 42 gallons. This would convert our 20.7 million barrels per day usage to 869,400,000 gallons, or almost 3 gallons per man woman and child in the USA every day.
  China our nearest competitor in total consumption uses 6.4 million barrels per day, which converts to 268,800,000 gallon or approximately .2067 gallon (less then a quart) per man woman and child.
  Water usage is over 60 gallon per day per person, 19,680,000,000 gallons per day in the USA nobody else is even close. Whole valleys have dropped over 30 feet because of groundwater depletion (it's called Land Subsidence). The world is not able to support consumption at the rate we, in the United States blow through resources.
  We as a nation are over $8.88 trillion in debt and rising (April 2007); with no visible plan back toward solvency.(USA TODAY Oct. 4, 2004) This does not include the nations hidden debt which exceeds $60 trillion which comes due starting in 2008.
  We are financially no better off then most third world countries. More then one third of our national debt is owned by China and Japan. Last year they received over 100 billion dollars from the American taxpayer on the interest that was paid out because of the national debt. They have been buying U.S. Treasury bonds with the money that we have been using to buy stuff manufactured overseas.
  Please do not suffer any illusions; be it the design and or manufacturing of ships, jets, cars, computers, televisions, clothes or toys there are no jobs that are being done in the USA that cannot be done just as well and less expensive elsewhere, up to and including being a CEO of a major corporation.
  Our government has allowed the exportation of “blue collar” jobs, now being followed by “white collar” and “tech” jobs in order for corporations to improve their bottom line with no regard to the workers or the financial hit in taxes that the government itself is taking.
  Unfortunately we as a nation are also guilty of exploitation of third world governments and workers with the loans that have been given out through the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Loans that impoverished nations can’t get out of because they are always paying interest (usury) on the money loaned instead of principal. (Kind of like Americans with our credit cards and national debt.)
  We Americans allowed rules to be forced on others (because of those loans) that we would never have considered tolerating ourselves in the past. Sadly our leaders have put us in the precarious financial position where foreign governments and banking institutions that have been bailing us out will soon be able to dictate policy to us, just as we do to other impoverished countries.
  Thereby rendering us irrelevant.
  Ok, but what about irreverent?
  Righteousness, justice and respect are dying in this country. It is hard to have respect for our legislative bodies or the criminal injustice system when laws are not applied equally on all segments of society. Tragically Congress has written laws in such a convoluted manner that justice has become a joke.
  Here in the United States we have over 30,000,000 laws, rules, statutes and ordnances. A large number of them were written as special interest legislation; paid for by lobbyists with campaign contributions and nice paying jobs upon leaving office.
  A large amount of special interest legislation looks like bribery, often done in secret with the intent of perverting justice.
  It reminds me of the stories about the leaders of old, who used to make laws for the masses but made loopholes for themselves and their “buddies”.  "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
  "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! …”
  When all laws are not enforced equally, justice is dead.
  In the Old Testament section of the Bible are all the rules necessary to provide for all the issues in the world stated in less then 10 pages if we would just apply them.
  A major problem with using only 10 pages of law is the difficulty in building bureaucracies to maintain power and control, but it gets worse.
  Jesus took those 10 pages and summarized them to less then 50 words which will still require a lifetime of effort: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.

  We as a nation have been standing in a glass house throwing rocks for so long, there is barely any glass left.
  MTV’s portrayals are exported around the world, some of it is ugly.
  Changing laws to benefit a choice few (Special Interest Legislation) is wrong.
  Exporting jobs to maximize profits is wrong.
  Spending billions of dollars a month on interest for our national debt is wrong.
  Not applying all laws equally on all people is an injustice and also wrong.
  It is to bad “the well” has been polluted, because now we get to live with the consequences of our actions.
  Education and personal responsibility are the keys to repairing the damage, not unfunded feel good legislative mandates.
  As a Christian nation we have became irreverent and a liability when we became like the Sadducees, Pharisees and Sanhedrin; when we became hypocrites, forcing our “morality” (we export the garbage called MTV) and “our laws” on others instead of teaching as Jesus did. And just as God was not pleased with the Jewish people after Christ’s crucifixion, it would be difficult to imagine him putting up with Christian’s too much longer because of our hypocrisy.