I am fed up too but I see it a little different. We got successful by allowing our people to make things and selling them to the world and accumulate the wealth. the last 40 years we have outsourced most of the making things and have carried on with the good life by spending all that accumulated wealth (and then some!). The only way this changes is when the leaches in DC have spent all the money and all the credit they can claw out of us. Then they will announce that the problem is unsolvable and that they "never tried harder..." and go home.
We are finally committed to the fast track off the cliff. when we hit bottom then we MIGHT have a chance to kick this silly addiction. Until then my plan is to keep my powder dry and take care of my family. the real question will be if we can fend off the Islamists during this period of decay. VD Hansen does a great job of showing how Islamic expansion has historically been into civilizations that lost their moral compass and were in decay (like the current EU). They give lost people a set of clear simple rules with serious consequences that they can follow. All they have to give up is their liberty and humanity which isn't putting food on the table so why not.
The USA and Israel are still the two most innovative places in the world, so in my mind it is race between technology and barbarism. We are not going to "take the country back" as all there is once you take it back is same mess amplified with ungrateful blame frosting. Ignorance is curable, stupid is for life. George Washington had it right:
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
Keeping my eye on my front sight.