Take a sputtering U.S. economic recovery. Add in one of the closest presidential elections in history. Top it with a natural disaster that exposes the woefully inadequate state of infrastructure in some of the country's richest parts.
The question is natural: Where is the U.S. heading? Back to its heyday of financial and political prominence as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney promise? Or toward a slow but inexorable decline, as some economic figures and the effects of superstorm Sandy might suggest?..............................................Full Article: Source
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