Jaden wrote:
So you deny that a country can collapse under it's own idiotic policies and debt, then?
Not at all. I just don't think it's likely to happen to America within my lifetime.
Jaden wrote:
I welcome you to read history, particularly russia at the time that their country's economy collapsed, how many years has it taken them again, to recover?
And yet their current President was a major player in the previous regime's thug-enforcer class. The country may have changed but the power structure remains remarkably similar.
Jaden wrote:
I think it's stupidly optimistic to assume that a country would continue on under an unsustainable pattern just because it's a super power in the world.
I'd call that blandly pessimistic myself, but okay.
Jaden wrote:
Remember the old axiom; the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Yep. When they're really big, they tend to break into pieces when they fall. Often enough, some of those pieces put themselves back together again into a whole, which might differ from the previous whole in many respects but is nonetheless composed of many of the same parts.
Sure a collapse might happen. But it's not like it isn't going to be the same jerks running things more or less the same way afterwards.
Jaden wrote:
But go ahead and believe what you will, when the system finally does fail, you'll look back on this topic like some others and realize how foolish it was to make assumptions about how unsinkable the ship called the United States really was, and like the titanic, it couldn't even save those it was supposed to protect.
I don't know who you think you're talking to, but there's literally nothing that could lead a reasonable reader of the post to which you're replying to think that I would do anything but sing from joy if "the system finally does fail," never mind the delusion that it's supposed to be protecting me.
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To love through this hate to live with its weight
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02 Mar 2015, 9:57 pm
