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The End of The US

   Posted by finalflash  Promoted 117 days 18 hours ago  2310 views

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A brief look at all the problems which will eventually lead to the death of the US.


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finalflash, on 4/25/2008 12:16:09 AM
Total Posts: 292, Joined: 5/16/2006
A smaller version of my other editorial which was about a page and half longer in word.
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waffleman, on 4/27/2008 7:50:02 PM
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Interesting read. I noticed there was nothing in your article about the diminishing Dollar Hegemony. I've read that the US talked Saudi Arabia into only excepting US dollars for oil through OPEC back in the Seventies, when the US couldn't cover European requests for gold as repayment for debt owed.As certain Oil producing countries have now switched to the Euro or Basket Currencies as payment for oil, fewer dollars are being held in foreign Banks for oil payment. I'm not an economist, but it seems reasonable that countries sitting on billions of US dollars are taking a loss by holding onto a,devaluing currency. Foreign banks are losing money by hording a devalued dollar. Should or more likely when they panic and dump the dollar for more stable currencies, the US economy is in real trouble. I don't think this will end the US. Americans will have to through taxation pay back all the debt owed to foreigners. We reached or debt limit in Canada about twenty years ago and had the GST introduced to pay back our debt. We're still paying this tax twenty years later.
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finalflash, on 4/28/2008 1:37:00 AM
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@waffleman

Your basically right on all points, but here is what I think might go wrong in those scenarios. Firstly, the US is not gonig lose the dollar hegemony from the main arab states since they all have protection from the US and have military bases everywhere in their countries. It would not be in their interest to do so and they may actually use their stock piles of cash and infuse it into the dying economy to help it back up. Same story with the Chinese as both them and the arabs have been buying into US companies left and right.

Secondly, our economy in Canada was going down the tube until about 2000. We have lots of natural resources though, and more than we need for that matter. That is the reason we are doing good now, because of our commodities and their relative high prices. The US doesn't have anything that they don't themselves consume, and nothing that is worth anything right now other than oil .... which they use like mad. Industrial strength is what got the US to where it is, now it no longer has that edge.

Also, Iraq....that is why they are never gonna get away from this nightmare. Because if they stay, they bleed to death. If they leave, oil prices will stay sky high and go higher, and they can not afford that since they are now in a recession, and moving off oil requires that you be in a good state of economics to smoothly shift off a century old energy system.
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TheGodfather27, on 5/3/2008 2:54:38 PM
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I am thoroughly impressed with the quality of this article, well done. Having next to no formal education on macro-economics, this is very interesting.

I would like to see an equally thorough rebuttal blog/ed from someone who disagrees with some of these arguments.

My personal critique is that you give no credit whatsoever to Americans for their willpower and work ethics. Granted the new generations do seem unfit and unwilling to roll up their sleeves and innovate the shit out of the world. But I believe if you take away their PS3's and ..houses, their seriousness will surface when their backs are up against a wall. They just need a swift kick in the ass to get going.
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Mustnotsleep, on 5/11/2008 2:25:57 PM
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capitalism.
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wagermeiser, on 5/12/2008 6:03:37 AM
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Mustnotsleep wrote:
capitalism.

Indeed.
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Livy, on 5/12/2008 6:58:07 AM
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I disagree with some of these arguments. Anyone like to play the role of Devil's Advocate with me?
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ThisisJeff, on 5/12/2008 9:17:13 AM
Total Posts: 1942, Joined: 4/8/2007
Great blog. Should have been an editorial IMO.

I disagree with some of your arguments of course, however, you do make a lot of thought provoking points.

"This is being stopped by rednecks and retards who want immigration to be toughened so they do not lose their jobs to more qualified and cheaper labor from abroad (yes that's right, they have a better education and cost less, yet the US populace would rather stop them from coming here instead of getting off their lazy asses and out competing them in education)."

If you would have worded that a bit differently you would not have lost as much credibility to me. (besides the fact you are not even living in the US...) "rednecks" and "retards" want more strict immigration laws for extremely valid reasons. First though, take a look at your country who has MUCH MUCH more strict immigration laws. You call someone a redneck for not wanting illegal mexicans in America? Look at your own fucking country. By that standard your entire gov't is run by "retards and rednecks".

Also these "rednecks" (redneck must be canadian for hard-working american) you so ignorantly speak of are the ones who are officially state licensed to fix the A/C, Plumbing, cars, paint the houses, and many other skilled labor jobs. Immigrants coming in from India or Japan are not as big of a threat to their job security so of course they will be in favor of stricter immigration laws at the mexican-american border.

Our dollar is devaluing rapidly and we do have the beginnings of an epidemic on our hands with the current generation of teenagers. America fucked up. We fucked up pretty bad really. I am not one to prophecy doom nor speak bad about my own country very often but we are headed in a very bad direction.

Yet sometimes ignorance can be believing in something that doest not really exist rather than believing that something which does exist does not. I think you paint too broad a picture when you put america on a canvass. I believe you have over-exaggerated our "doom" but i do agree with some of the points you made.

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cadpig, on 5/12/2008 12:56:27 PM
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They have been saying that crap before i was even born..America is dying...The american empire is failing.. Guess what pal..We are still here... If we don't adapt we will die, but not today..
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Immaculate1, on 5/12/2008 3:35:22 PM
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Livy: "I disagree with some of these arguments. Anyone like to play the role of Devil's Advocate with me?"

Why don't you just go ahead instead of asking for somebody to hold your hand?



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