Can US Prevent Roman Empire Type Collapse

[Heracles 417]

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Interesting viewpoint..

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Also see here.

[YuAndDan 153]

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Edited August 15, 2007 by YuAndDan

[Heracles 417]

I think there is ample evidence out there that the US is heading towards a similar catastrophe. Irrespective of which party is in office, it is time to reinvest in America and on Americans. The biggest issue is people admitting there is a problem with the current way of thinking and the way things are done.

As a conservative I strongly believe you cannot leave health, education or safety in the hands of the free market or lobbyist.

Edited August 15, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[peejay 327]

I personally think America (and Texas in particular) started going to hell in a breadbasket when everything everywhere both private and especially governmental started being bilingual only in English/Spanish. At the local Bank of America the abundance of Spanish signs is annoying enough to be distracting. The local driver's license office is a maze of bilingual signs and announcements in English and Spanish.

I'm 51 years old and it didn't used to be that way and it never should have ever happened. It just set up all the mass illegal immigration problems we face today. Is it any wonder that roughly 80% of illegal aliens originate from Spanish speaking countries?

[Heracles 417]

I personally think America (and Texas in particular) started going to hell in a breadbasket when everything everywhere both private and especially governmental started being bilingual only in English/Spanish. At the local Bank of America the abundance of Spanish signs is annoying enough to be distracting. The local driver's license office is a maze of bilingual signs and announcements in English and Spanish.

I'm 51 years old and it didn't used to be that way and it never should have ever happened. It just set up all the mass illegal immigration problems we face today. Is it any wonder that roughly 80% of illegal aliens originate from Spanish speaking countries?

Your right. And you know why. Every other developed country is becoming a knowledge based economy, as is the US. Yet the US is importing more and more unskilled workers who barely have a middle school education daily. I have never ever heard of any other nation importing poverty on such a large scale without any repercussions.

Edited August 15, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[Gaby&Talbert 1]

Is the real problem that we sent soooo many jobs to other countries? If we loose all of our ability to be self reliant what will happen? Every great empire has fallen throughout history, the US is very young compared to some of the others?

[Heracles 417]

Is the real problem that we sent soooo many jobs to other countries? If we loose all of our ability to be self reliant what will happen? Every great empire has fallen throughout history, the US is very young compared to some of the others?

They also did not know any better. The country's ailing infrastructure, which is literally falling apart, can be fixed. It is sad to see us building homes overseas while 8 million Americans lose theirs. Sad to see illegal immigrants steal jobs from the 45,000,000 Americans living in poverty. Sad to see employers profiteering off illegal immigrants and short changing other hard working Americans while they drive $100,000 cars and pay next to no taxes.. It is stuff like this, stuff that the American people can change, that is leading to a Rome style destruction.

Edited August 15, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I wonder what calls Jack Cafferty got in answer to that question...

[Caladan 19]

Republics don't die, they just turn into empires when no one's looking. We could use a period of nouveau isolationism and to stop suckling at the teat of big oil.

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

I think we are doing just fine thank you very much.

*PROUD AMERICAN*

nervous nellies sit aside please.

Daniel

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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

This is how Republics become Empires

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Edited August 16, 2007 by Number 6

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I think we are doing just fine thank you very much.

*PROUD AMERICAN*

nervous nellies sit aside please.

Daniel

:energetic:

YAY, Americans are a great bunch.

[Heracles 417]

Republics don't die, they just turn into empires when no one's looking. We could use a period of nouveau isolationism and to stop suckling at the teat of big oil.

That is the thing. This is not a Republican or Democrat issue. This is an American issue. With each party as equally to blame as one another. While the rest of the world moves forward the US is literally falling apart. Half the neighborhoods are turning into run down crime havens; while we argue about Iraq and other pointless #######.. Anyone who disagrees this view seriously needs to travel to other developed nations.

This is how Republics become Empires

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Isn't he a left wing socialist. Funny how the people who are apparently for the poor always turn into power hungry dictators..

Edited August 16, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

This is how Republics become Empires

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Isn't he a left wing socialist. Funny how the people who are apparently for the poor always turn into power hungry dictators..

I don't think those labels are really very meaningful once someone has taken steps to dismantle the national constitution.

Look what political party Hitler was a member of originally - I doubt very much that socialists would find much common ground there.