The fact is, it still is a land of opportunity.

It has just suffered from bad government, under a president who inherited a lot of debt and previous problems from GW Bush who I was no fan of personally. Nor do I think Obama is any better, but he inherited a mess. An independent needs to come to power, and put countries and organisations that harm the US and the West, like China, and OPEC firmly in their place. They can't exist without the west, and it needs someone who has some backbone to rule to stand up to them.