Frontier in West Virginia Exemplifies Broken US Broadband Market → Everyone involved should be held responsible

This is abhorrent to say the least. 2014 and a STATE can't even get reliable internet service.

I honestly feel that the USA is slowly turning into a third world country.

The current problems facing the whole nation are quite similar to that of the USSR on its downfall - ineffective politics, corrupt government, slowing (if not dying) economy, crumbling infrastructure, last desperate grasps of control on the world...

The only way one cannot see this decline happening is through colored glasses.

I tend to agree.
Countries, like people, age and deteriorate. Entrenched power gnaws away at good governance. All societies and civilizations have faced this. Every society thinks they are different and special. We will go the same way as all the others before us.