America: The Next 3rd World Country?

A few things have made me recently question America's future.

First: a national report yesterday found that 3 out of 10 (for those that did not graduate, that's nearly a third!) of students drop out of high school! In Detroit, the graduation rate is almost as low as 20% of students. Overall graduation rate for minorities: Native Americans: 50%, Blacks: 50%, Hispanics: 55%.

Second: Our government is increasingly corrupt. Not just congress, but also White House aids.

Third: Our preventable disease rate is rising. Not just measles, but we are failing to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS, and experts seem to think it's only a matter of time before we all contract bird flu.

These things, combined with our growing dependence on unstable foreign energy supplies, rising pollution rates, soon to be rising sea levels (and the subsequent problems with water supplies and coastal cities under water) lead me to one conclusion: America will steadily descend into Third World status.

What are the hallmarks of a Third World country? Uneducated masses, no respect for the Rule of Law, and ongoing public health epidemics with diseases that are completely curable. I think we should continue doing what we're doing, and it won't be long until we're all being gang raped.