Some of the major concerns we're facing in the years and decades ahead include the following:

·       Running out of money for social security and many other entitlements

·       The flight of many in the entrepreneurial class to Brazil, India and other places with less regulation on small business

·       The wartime economy of China that is built to thrive in times of conflict (and struggles in times of peace)

·       The end of privacy as government is pressured to oversee everyone and all things in the name of security and protection from terrorism

·       The end of America's production base as industry continues to go abroad and we continue to train the world's attorneys instead of more engineers and inventors

·       The growing gap between rich and poor in the U.S. and globally

It is not enough to hope that our politicians will solve these problems--we need the regular citizenry to get involved in discussing and overcoming our challenges. That is what a free people do, and when a people stops doing such things it soon loses its freedoms.