RE: How America will collapse (by 2025)
December 9, 2010 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2010 at 10:48 am by Jaysyn.)
(December 9, 2010 at 10:24 am)lilyannerose Wrote: Don't you think at some point China is going to do something about all the $$$ the US owes?
Do you honestly think that China will attack another sovereign nation over fiat money? Do you not think that China's artificial inflation of their currency will eventually bite them in their behind? How about their unsustainable economic growth over the past 20 years?
BTW, here is a little graphic for you that may put our economic situation in a better visual light for you. This one is using 2010's numbers
![[Image: GDP_countries-600x369.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.businesspundit.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F07%2FGDP_countries-600x369.jpg)
This one is using 2006's numbers
![[Image: 350816052_0a392a0d28_o1.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=strangemaps.files.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F350816052_0a392a0d28_o1.jpg)
So yeah, we took a dip, but the rest of the world did as well. Our GDP is still growing. With the -2.1% exception that was 2009, our GDP has been growing steady since 1944.
(December 9, 2010 at 10:24 am)lilyannerose Wrote: Frankly, I can see a future where you have a situation where "The Corporations" usurp the role of governments.
Someone has played too much Shadowrun. Or something.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal