I've been unhappy about that since I was a kid. While the degree of the problem has changed over time, it has been a problem for a very long time.It's our kids who will pay and I'm not happy about that.
To the extent that certain specific aspects of this nation are in decline (which itself is debatable), it would almost surely not be attributable solely due to lack of fiscal discipline. The vast majority of our "problem" can be tracked back to the fact that we've gotten used to exploiting our overwhelming financial and military power to artificially inflate our GDP. This has been going on for almost a century. The free ride is over - and has been over for a while - but we were weaned on a much richer economic environment. We weren't trained to expect and factor into our expectations the fact that other nations would learn to gain economic power from us, and that other nations would learn to resist our economic brow-beating, thereby resetting our source of riches to something closer to the boundaries of our own nation.We should pay our own way - this country is on decline due to our lack of fiscal discipline and I'm not happy about that either.
Fiscal discipline is part of the remedy, but that's like saying HRIG and HDCV are a cure for encephalitis. That knowledge does no good unless those afflicted come to learn that they're not invulnerable, that they actually do have a problem, that it is within themselves not someone else, that it needs to be treated, that the treatment is worthwhile even though it is going to hurt really bad for a good long while.