I've had this uneasy sense for a few years now, and my latest around the world trip reinforced my feeling that something is wrong about America.  On that later, but first, what is right about my country. When it comes to most of the important things in life, the USA is #1 Our economy is probably the best today of all our competitors. In  Gross National Product/year . #1 at $20.5 trillion.  China #2 $13.6 trillion and Japan #3 $5.0 trillion. However, and this a warning, with respect to Gross National Income/year, the U.S. is only #8 at $77,530.  #1 Norway at $118,440, Qatar #2 $110,640 and Singapore #3 $107,030. China has an inflation rate of 0.2%, France 2.2%, South Korea 2.4, Euro Area 2.5%, Japan 2.8%, Canada 2.9% and the USA at 3.0% are the  lowest.  India 5.08%, Russia 8.6% and Argentina 272%. We are far ahead in medals won at all the summer olympics, and have prevailed on how many times we were #1:  18, compared to  the Soviet Union ( Russia ) 6.  No other nation had more than