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SheilaT

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9. Face it. The truth is that the American Empire is crumbling.

Reply to WCGreen (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2013, 01:10 AM

May 2013

We are only nominally the most powerful nation on the planet. True, we spend as much as the rest of the world combined on our military, but meanwhile we let our schools go unfunded, our infrastructure crumbles, too many of our citizens without proper healthcare. We can maintain the appearance of power for some time to come, but we're rather like Rome in perhaps 300 AD. The barbarians are at the gates, and there's almost nothing we can do.

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Let me get this straight, we are cutting public works on our crumbling infrastructure [View all] WCGreen May 2013 OP

. blkmusclmachine May 2013 #1

Our priorities as a nation are fucked up gopiscrap May 2013 #2

Those folks in charge could not care less... CaliforniaPeggy May 2013 #3

We've been doing this for many years... TreasonousBastard May 2013 #4

"we" are not doing this the president and congress are jointly doing this nt msongs May 2013 #5

K & R! hrmjustin May 2013 #6

Oh but the 99% got their tax break. dkf May 2013 #7

Allowing our bridges to fall down and educating fewer young people? Rhiannon12866 May 2013 #8

Face it. The truth is that the American Empire is crumbling. SheilaT May 2013 #9

Except, perhaps we are the barbarians or iemitsu May 2013 #13

Flood-up economics... ananda May 2013 #16

Yeah, it does seems like a flood. iemitsu May 2013 #20

On the college interest rates airplaneman May 2013 #10

Yesterday, north of me on I-5, a bridge, spanning the Skagit River iemitsu May 2013 #11

Exactly. love_katz May 2013 #12

Your points are more, to the point. The clarity is nice. iemitsu May 2013 #14

Thank you. love_katz May 2013 #15

You're very welcome. I appreciate you comments as well. iemitsu May 2013 #19

We offset the cost of College by , allowing more H1B1 visas. bahrbearian May 2013 #17

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