I didn't see this until today, but being that the Dow is still hovering around 10k, it's worth a gander.  The first 2 minutes and 10 seconds of the video are pretty sobering (and the only portion of the video worth watching).  The information presented provides a good explanation for people who don't really pay much attention to financial data.

I'm going to bold this next part so you pay attention:  Over the past 10 years, the US Dollar has lost 25% of it's value as pegged by the Dollar Index and our national debt has more than DOUBLED!