Good Morning, here are two cubes of gloom and a splash of doom to go with your morning coffee.
I think America has been and is being dismantled as there is no longer very much to exploit in America and its time that the king makers and power brokers find greener pastures.
How America will collapse (by 2025)
Four scenarios that could spell the end of the United States as we know it -- in the very near future
Alfred W. McCoy
Topic:
U.S. Economy
Editor: Andrew Leonard
Monday, Dec 6, 2010 15:01 ET
If America's decline is in fact on a 22-year trajectory from 2003 to 2025, then we have already frittered away most of the first decade of that decline with wars that distracted us from long-term problems and, like water tossed onto desert sands, wasted trillions of desperately needed dollars.
If only 15 years remain, the odds of frittering them all away still remain high. Congress and the president are now in gridlock; the American system is flooded with corporate money meant to jam up the works; and there is little suggestion that any issues of significance, including our wars, our bloated national security state, our starved education system, and our antiquated energy supplies, will be addressed with sufficient seriousness to assure the sort of soft landing that might maximize our country's role and prosperity in a changing world.
Europe's empires are gone and America's imperium is going. It seems increasingly doubtful that the United States will have anything like Britain's success in shaping a succeeding world order that protects its interests, preserves its prosperity, and bears the imprint of its best values.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/1...9_7_30_110
I think America has been and is being dismantled as there is no longer very much to exploit in America and its time that the king makers and power brokers find greener pastures.
How America will collapse (by 2025)
Four scenarios that could spell the end of the United States as we know it -- in the very near future
Alfred W. McCoy
Topic:
U.S. Economy
Editor: Andrew Leonard
Monday, Dec 6, 2010 15:01 ET
If America's decline is in fact on a 22-year trajectory from 2003 to 2025, then we have already frittered away most of the first decade of that decline with wars that distracted us from long-term problems and, like water tossed onto desert sands, wasted trillions of desperately needed dollars.
If only 15 years remain, the odds of frittering them all away still remain high. Congress and the president are now in gridlock; the American system is flooded with corporate money meant to jam up the works; and there is little suggestion that any issues of significance, including our wars, our bloated national security state, our starved education system, and our antiquated energy supplies, will be addressed with sufficient seriousness to assure the sort of soft landing that might maximize our country's role and prosperity in a changing world.
Europe's empires are gone and America's imperium is going. It seems increasingly doubtful that the United States will have anything like Britain's success in shaping a succeeding world order that protects its interests, preserves its prosperity, and bears the imprint of its best values.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/1...9_7_30_110
The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
