If George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were alive today, we wonder what they’d be doing to celebrate Independence Day.

Would they crack open a cold one and listen to Sweet Home Alabama as the burgers cook?

Would they go shopping for some amazing deals at the Natchez Mall?

Or would they trek over to Lake St. John for the annual flotilla?

It’s an interesting visual: White wigs flapping in the wind and funny hats being clutched to the heads.

But the point in our bringing up the issue isn’t to make fun of the Founding Fathers, but rather to get us all thinking about the state of our nation.

When they walked the dusty streets of colonial America, the place was little more than a burgeoning colony, mostly settled along the east coast.

Today, some 232 years later, some of America’s cities dwarf the population of colonial America, estimated to be approximately 2.5 million people.

And with that growth came problems.

Our nation has problems, big problems.

From a shrinking position in the global economy and terrorist threats to poverty and a decline in morals, America isn’t what it used to be. But then again, there’s also no other place like it.

Tomorrow, we’ll celebrate the moment in which a scrappy group of dreamers decided to break free and turn their scruffy colony into the greatest nation ever conceived.

Happy Fourth of July!