Have the wealthy gotten stupider?

We haven't "lost" our prosperity; we've WILLINGLY GIVEN it away! We accomplished this though all the decades of ping environmental legislation's, financial rules and regulations, and attempts at social engineering to redistribute wealth, when we made it cheaper for business to conduct business elsewhere. The economic ault continues when the Obama Administration, like He did during the "health care debate", puts the neo-leftist "Green Agenda" over what's best for the nation... oil is literally POWER and we let ours just sit idle, untapped, veiled with the LIE either that it would "take too long to drill for it" or that our reserves represent "only 1% of the world's supply" when that "1%" equals 1% of ten times the ninth power times 1290 barrels! But, when we are too weak to fight off foreign invaders, at least we will have a nice green field for them to erect their versions of a "victory mosque" upon!