such as : the financial market collapse along with the failure of several large financial institutions , illegal aliens , outsourcing jobs , blatant and destructive political partisanship , peak oil , the never ending wars in iraq and afghanistan , our unsustainable and ever increasing national debt , deficit spending , global warming , corporate farming , a disappearing middle class , growing unemployment , devaluation of our currency abroad , the dollars inevitable loss of reserve currency status , nafta , budget busting senior entitlements , religious fanaticism at home , and religious fanaticism abroad to cite only a portion of a long list .