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How can a country that is about to nationalize its banking system call itself the "bastion of capitalism?". In my opinion the US is moving towards socialism, not capitalism. Your banks and insurance companies and carmakers should go bankrupt and die. In the vacuum that follows, better banks, insurers and carmakers will emerge. Nationalizing those industries won't make them better.

I know it's your poll, but I think the most appropriate wording might consider whether the US will retain its position as the world's economic engine? To that question, I'd say yes in the short term, but no in the long term. The Age of the American Consumer (or as Lance has correctly noted, the baby boomer), which has driven so much of the domestic growth in the US over the last decade, is coming to an end. It is causing all sorts of problems around the world (uh, duh!), but what is going to emerge out the otherside of this recession is a world economy that isn't going to look to the American consumer for growth. That growth is going to come from the huge numbers of Indian and Chinese families moving into the middle class, and bringing all that purchasing power with them.