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America: It Could Be The Next Fallen Empire..
All the great empires of this world have one thing in common, they all eventually fell. America is no different...
 Easy_uk  23 Oct 2008 20:06
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We have the same symptoms.
Loss of 'morality'.
Loss of passion for the nation etc.
Apathy. And I am sure there are other things.

I am not an economist but that's just what I think.
 
 gottfried  02 Apr 2009 04:15
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The way we're going now... Yes
 
 n-stein8_  24 Oct 2008 06:45
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Yes, following the content of history, we can predict that America will crumble. Just looking at their economy, evidently shows major issues among the once great nation. I agree with Hidell, Bush was the beggining of the end. This is a respectable assumption, surely a nation cannont prevail victory, and rain supremecy over the world forever.

I think the only quuestions to this notion are, when is American going to crumble, and how badly ?

If Barrack Obama, and the next few Presidents of the U.S play their cards right, the U.S may not fall to hard. But its hard to go against the saying, the bigger you are the harder you fall.

As a Canadain, who highly depends on the American economy, and is concerned for the U.S people, I have best wishes for the U.S and their ability to overcome the barrage of oncoming issues coming their way.

I really hope China plays nice.
 
 verum  24 Oct 2008 03:14
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Bush was the beginning of the end of America's moment in the sun of world history.
 
 Hidell  24 Oct 2008 00:58
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Yep. Alaska, California, and new Hampshire will be among the first states to secede and form their own nations.
 
 ur_wrong  24 Oct 2008 00:25
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 Alaska can join Canada. Were cool like that.
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 24 Oct 2008 03:16
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Seems a foregone conclusion kiss your @$$ g'bye folks America isn't so beautiful anymore since freedom doesn't ring so loud and clarion anymore. The elections 2008 is not helping things either.
Pick between the devil or belzeebub.
 
 sylverwyld  23 Oct 2008 22:09
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There is no doubt in my mind that the country I love and have served will fall due to its irresponsibility. America has stepped off of a solid foundation (Constitution and Bill of Rights) and now stands on shifty ground.
 
 athling  23 Oct 2008 21:22
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Yes, every empire eventually falls - it's just a question of when. The US will fall. Ironically, history shows that often these giants have either already fallen or are in the process of it and they may be unaware it's even happening or that the hour of their demise is so late. A person needs to wonder if that may already be true for the USA.

I don't think we're done yet, but I do think we're headed that way faster than necessary and faster than most people are willing to admit.
 
 Grenache  23 Oct 2008 21:10
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All empires are predicated on the "principle" of constant invasion to expand and theft of wealth to pay for it. The reality is, the more widespread the empire becomes, the fewer countries that are left to invade. Eventually, the revenue needed to pay for the war machine stops and the empire collapses.

It happened to every empire before the US - the British, the Soviets, the Nazis, the Italians, the Spanish, the French, the Germans, the Austrians, the Turks, the Portuguese, the Dutch, etc. The US is no different.
 
 K9  23 Oct 2008 20:50
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 But they didnt run out of land, they all ended for monumentally different reasons.... Mostly it was stagnation and lost of control from the centre, but for the Mongols it was hereditary, Portugese and Dutch is was sustainability (but they were not great empires) France it was the complete incopetance of the Two kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, For the Germans they were crushed and the Austrians Stagnation, But it wasnt lack of land no empire has taken the whole world.
by  Easy_uk
 23 Oct 2008 21:04
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 gamenut  12 Jan 2010 01:59
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I understand your view but America is to big to go down because if America goes it will goes it will cause an ripple affect that means most of Europe and most of Asia will fall apart. For example our economic situation is having the same affect with the rest of world.
 
 waleo  23 Oct 2008 21:58
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I didn't know America was an empire? America is only on top because smart and talented people do business in America. If you took the best traits about every society and threw them into a pot you'd end up with America. America is proof that 2 heads are better than 1. Americans can't budget though...
 
 Specter87  23 Oct 2008 20:14
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 They are world super powers, and in a modern world they have a vast economic empire, land is no longer as important in the Globalised world, rather the minds of people are, so you can say America's empire is in the mind, but in a world where the Global economy is current, then empires are forged in the flow of money. Perhaps we are entering a period not too dissimilar to the fall of Rome, think about how the world entered a period called the Dark Ages when the mighty roman empire collapsed, so when the Mighty American empire collapses we shall enter a world of economic darkness, until China rises.....
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 23 Oct 2008 20:23
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