Thread: Impending Doom

Originally Posted by Trinnity

And yet, our pols still want to spend and tax.
They aren't taking any of it seriously as a legislative group.

Their tax / borrow and spend (both parties) is just the tip of the iceberg.

The cost of regulation due to lack of competition (higher prices), slowed growth, and companies not started has reached the tipping point. (some regulation is good, but there are few good regulations, most are written by the industries they regulate).

The cost of unfunded entitlement, SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, government employee retirements, etc.

Originally Posted by Margot

America will come back stronger than ever....... I think we are learning alot thru this difficult time.

So will the Roman Empire and the Soviet Union.

America is a polity based on an idea. When the idea dies there is nothing to hold the polity together.

America is not Han China. Han China is a civilization held together by ties of racial and cultural affinity and identity. That's not true for America. America is in the process of balkanizing in terms of its consciousness and identity.

Originally Posted by Albert Di Salvo

America is a polity based on an idea. When the idea dies there is nothing to hold the polity together.

America is not Han China. Han China is a civilization held together by ties of racial and cultural affinity and identity. That's not true for America. America is in the process of balkanizing in terms of its consciousness and identity.

a nation that is stripped of its industry is doomed to die....it truly amazes me how these ignorant fools cant see the obvious!

Originally Posted by Albert Di Salvo

Han China is a civilization held together by ties of racial and cultural affinity and identity. That's not true for America. America is in the process of balkanizing in terms of its consciousness and identity.

This fixation with the HAN Dynasty is a recurring feature in your Posts .
As I recall , the lights went out after only about 200years and that was over 2000 years ago .
Just a historical foot note , methinks .

Originally Posted by bacardi

a nation that is stripped of its industry is doomed to die....it truly amazes me how these ignorant fools cant see the obvious!

Denial is where most Americans are at present. The left thinks it's still 1970 and the right thinks it's still 1920.

Originally Posted by raymondo

This fixation with the HAN Dynasty is a recurring feature in your Posts .
As I recall , the lights went out after only about 200years and that was over 2000 years ago .
Just a historical foot note , methinks .

Methinks you are a Pakistani who knows nothing of his own history let alone that of a superior culture.

Originally Posted by Not Amused

Occupy and the Tea Party are attacking the two sides of the same problem - the corporation / government complex. One they realize that....

I don't agree. The Tea Party is coming from a right wing slant that simply has zero understanding of economic relations. Ultimately its merely another exercise into the authoritarian personality which, at best, would enhance empower corporate profiteering

Originally Posted by bacardi

a nation that is stripped of its industry is doomed to die....it truly amazes me how these ignorant fools cant see the obvious!

Yes, we have to "make something" to get money for it...computers, cell phones, tablets...all those could be manufactured here. Yes, the price would be higher, but people worldwide want them and will pay for them...stop outsourcing.

Originally Posted by CoolWalker

...stop outsourcing.

And how would you deliver that outcome? Hope it won't involve coercion and the destruction of economic opportunity!