Rising: 1, Prices for essentials, gas, food, natural gas, electricity; 2, homicides; 3, assaults; 4, drug overdoses; 5, illegal entries into the country; 6, releases of felons and repeat violent offenders; 7, attacks on law enforcement; 8, lack of respect for the laws in the country; 9, looting; 10, lack of respect among fellow citizens; 11, politicizing of the justice system; 12, politicizing of the public education system; 13, identity valuing over competency, actions and character; 14, stress, personal and societal; 15, totalitarian government; 16, ignorance or disregard of our basic Constitutional principles; 17, ignorance of how our country has overcome various struggles in the past.

So many problems, so little leadership and so little time.