While the media and the American public have been distracted by health care in recent months, our main sickness, the economy, has been overlooked.

The United States needs to address the epidemic that has been sweeping across the country. We are getting weaker every day as we ride on the wealthy coattails of the elite who came before us, squandering away their wealth.

Americans have become so oblivious or apathetic to our country’s peril, that they are unaware of how ill the U.S. already is.

We no longer have the industrial productive capacity to sustain ourselves. In America, imported products dominate the purchases of U.S. households and businesses. Over 92 percent of the money Americans spend on footwear goes overseas. Americans purchase 90 percent of their audio and video equipment from foreign produced entities and 90 percent of the money Americans spend on leather travels back overseas.

In a futile attempt to reinvigorate a foreign-drained economy, Congress and the president concocted the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008. However, the stimulus money was pumped back into other countries economies since Americans do not spend their money on domestically produced goods.

Our economy is much sicker than people realize, the U.S. is forced to live on the funds we borrow from other countries. Yet we are destroying our credit rating with these countries, a dangerous practice, since they possess the ability to renege their finances.

Meanwhile we have diverted our industrial infrastructure needs. Our roads and bridges are showing signs of disrepair and decay. Our leaders have also diverted from even discussing our real needs and are accruing politically popular acceptance through their focus on religious preferences and abortion rights.

The major problem in the U.S. is we are oblivious to our real needs and our focus has been sidetracked by health care. Our leaders must be bold enough to focus on our economy as a whole and address our economic crisis before we have become too sick to be treated.

Click here to see a list of the 16,613 companies America has sold to foreigners in the past 30 years

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