anyone see the parallel with the roman empire? i maybe right i maybe wrong about what will happen but the over extended millatry, economic chaos, bankrupt goverment. If china wanted to they could compleatly shut down the US goverment. I wonder what will happen
Nobody is going to shut down the US gov. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! There will be no recession. (Unless the democrats take over and raise interest rates.) Unemployment rates remain low and will not jump (despite 20+ million criminal aliens here stealing American jobs.) Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! The stock market is fine (actually UP) despite a 600-point ride this week. The military is ok. It is all voluntary. If we had to we could reinstate the draft. The vultures waiting for the death/demise of the USA will have to go elsewhere. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
sandy i think its time you stoped and looked around. How much money does the US goverment have? It cant print more that will make no difference, china is the one loaning money to he US goverment. Now if the chinese goverment stoped loaning the US money what would happen? The millatry would colaps the day they didnt get paid, the police might last longer because they wish to help the people, same with hospitals ect but nither would last forever because people who cant pay the rent, cant buy food wont work for free. The poor will stave. How long do you think it will take to go from the poor and the public servants to the rest of sociaty? not long i should think
No, the time is right to take steps so that bad things do not happen. You can not drive straight on a curved road. If you can not forecast where you are heading and take action....then the social chaos will definitely ensue.
Sandy: "Never. Gonna. Happen." Easy there, Sandy-Head: You can injure yourself, jamming it in too compulsively.
Easy, if wages rise to Clinton levels and the military, jail, and government employee population drops to Clinton levels. But I don't see wages rising any time soon, in 1999 dollars anyway.
Not yet. Thanks to your mention of it, I got a taste over at The Guardian. I learned a descriptive new term on the way: "theoconservatives" (!). I'm definitely going to read that book. It seems to lead right to the heart of where a lot of recent discussions around here have been swirling: As ever with great national tragedies- It's not the emergence of a unitary evil, but the intersection of multiple vectors combining into debacle, as summarized by The Guardian's review: We need books like this in the USA. They need to be read. We have got to get our heads around what has happened to us, and we must learn to express it clearly to our fellow citizens. Events are moving much too fast for the USAmerican public to remain in a childish state of geopolitical awareness. Tremendous blowback will follow W's reckless term of office. We had better figure out what it's mostly about fast, and before it hits us. Otherwise, we may be stricken too dumb to prevent the Fall of the House of Bush from taking a lot of good people down with it.
i wonder how many people who voted for the first and last option live in the US compared to those who live in other countries. Same for the second
Well, I'll take a guess, and the most indignant can correct me. I'll put a shining star by all of us that I clairvoyently perceive to reside in the Center of the Free World, and I'll leave an appropriate nothing to indicate the rest of you provincial nobodies. No recession -71% USA GeoffP NDS * Pandaemoni * phoenix2634 * sandy * snake river rufus * UltiTruth Us recession, No world recession -76% 15ofthe19 * Asguard ashura * Challenger78 * Enmos * hypewaders * Michael * Neildo * Nikelodeon pjdude1219 * Syzygys * USS Exeter * wpoplar US recession, World recession -71% Carcano * Crunchy Cat * draqon * Huwy OpteronGuy * shichimenshyo * world_events Wow. How revealing. Yanks everywhere you turn. I hope this satisfies your curiosity. It more than satisfied mine. :zzz:
your percentages are useless without title you knowPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Im ASSUMING that the last 2 are the percentage of US citizans but thats a guess its interesting how much the bias is to US citizans but that wasnt the point of my query. I was interested to see if people were acting in a bias factor. For instance my own vote was towards yes US, no world. Are people HOPING for a US fall and no damage to the rest of the world. Interesting that the statistics for first and last are the same where as the percentage is higher for the second one. Could be stastical error though
Error? Impossible. It's a Sientific scurvey, and respondants were 73% unbiased. Now my coffee overdose has finally worn off 92%. G'nite/G'day.