Open Question: Is America sure to fail as an Empire just like Greece, Rome etc. etc. and other empires have in the past?

PLEASE READ AND GIVE YOUR "HELP" ON THIS MATTERSure people might laugh at this but history has a weird way of repeating itself. This countries quality of life is becoming...well..low....; Guess what Rome was doing before they were about to fail? They were Fat, they were Lazy, and ohhh guess what? They used slaves to make products and do all the hard work for them i.e. especially "manufacturing". Sound familiar to anything like we have today? Fat,lazy people, stuff made in China; Wal-Mart being a good example maybe? 50 Years ago most young people would be working a good middle class job in steel work or something, and making in today's money 60 grand a year or MORE....not..not happening to most people anymore, America is becoming deindustrialized and a second rate country at an alarming pace. Almost all empires eventually collapsed due to POOR FISCAL AND ECONOMIC POLICY, COUPLED WITH POLITICAL CORRUPTIONS sound familiar? Then get this, according to Alexander Tyler & James Olson two famous philosophers, Democracies and great empires come in 8 steps before they die and crumble to their knees. Note: They wrote this awhile back and it sounds exactly like what's happening now and has already partially happened to America in the past. Read what they say bellow; "The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginningof history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, thesenations always progressed through the following sequence NOTE THE COMMENTS TO THE SIDES REGARDING AMERICA IS MY INPUT FOR THE BELLOW 8 STEPS:>1. From bondage to spiritual faith;-Founders of the country being oppressed by britain2. From spiritual faith to great courage;-Taking on the British Empire3. From courage to liberty;Declaration of Independence the Constitution 4. From liberty to abundance;-Right after WW2 Abundance of wealth and power was at it's height in America5. From abundance to complacency;50s 60s baby boomers loving everything still a strong economy and manufacturing.6. From complacency to apathy;People today; their kids might be being killed in Iraq, and over 10% of people might be jobless....bahh juts get me another beer and let me watch TV I hate politics. 7. From apathy to dependence;Complete Government control; people can't take care of themselves and are scared, things like socialized medicine that Obama is calling for etc. will take affect.8. From dependence back into bondage;The government will become a total dictatorship with an oligarchy in charge probably bankers. They predict that we are in ohh stage 6 right about now about to hit 7 in a decade or two if we are lucky. Most Americans can give two craps about what's going on they are too "apathetic" in stage 6 and are worried about the super bowl and American Idol, and how they are going to get more sex. Meanwhile while you are worried about all these minuscule things, people working in China 16 hours a day for pennies were making your products and your jobs were going down hill; you didn't care though, you just kept going to Wal-Mart and using credit cards, not knowing that you were actually paying for your own demise. What do people here think? Does anyone even really care anymore? When I try to talk to a lot of people about this it's always ohh I don't like politics. GREAT!! You will. You just haven't been discomforted enough yet to care. Maybe when you are unemployed or can't hardly eat anymore you will become more interested. So what do people here that care think we should do about this RIGHT NOW? How can we if it's even possible save the American Empire?