Have you ignored the news completely lately? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/18/a-labor-dispute-slowed-americas-ports-to-halt-but-theres-an-even-bigger-problem/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGDSWSuLpiQ - Jim Rickard's 5 Catalysts That Will Trigger an Economic Collapse

It might be time for you to find a new professor.

And let's not even get into America's score on happiness, education or infrastructure. I'll give ya a hint, it's shit.