Good post. Even though a lot of this stuff is known about it's good to put it in a single article. Like the article rightly says we are too easily influenced by the news and thus think that our 'empire' s going to collapse overnight. How wrong they are....
Here's one statistic that's quite interesting and very indicative of where our country should be heading....
'Washington is the only state within the union that has a trade surplus with the Chinese, is it coincidental that Washington is home to Microsoft and Boeing? Or is it that Seattle Coffee?'
You might find this interesting, I posted this on another thread:
This guy knows his stuff in my opinion. We should listen to his words of advice. (We will prosper where the British failed

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