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yeah, and all that tribute coming in from all those lands is SWEETIf he believes the US is an "empire" then he's off to a bad start with the rest of his idiocy.
Oh wait. He is.
The US is definitely an empire.
800 US military bases abroad do not lie, sucker!
oh, wait
So the Democrats who make that claim are lying.Wait a minute...I thought it was the GOP that were fear-mongers...?
Both parties control their peons with fear tactics. Duh!
Gasp.
yeah, and all that tribute coming in from all those lands is SWEETIf he believes the US is an "empire" then he's off to a bad start with the rest of his idiocy.
Oh wait. He is.
The US is definitely an empire.
800 US military bases abroad do not lie, sucker!
oh, wait
Other than the paltry 2% FICA "holiday" there were no tax cuts.Actually, since Obama sold out the American people for tax cuts, they're HIS baby now.
he extended the ones that were supposed to expire.
ROFLMAOyeah, and all that tribute coming in from all those lands is SWEETThe US is definitely an empire.
800 US military bases abroad do not lie, sucker!
oh, wait
That is the point, dimbulb. We are throwing away our future maintaining an empire. One that costs us dearly every year. Empires that fail to exact tribute fail. Empires that exact tribute inspire hatred that eventualy leads to their failure. Get the point?
*cough* BULLSHIT*cough*yeah, and all that tribute coming in from all those lands is SWEETThe US is definitely an empire.
800 US military bases abroad do not lie, sucker!
oh, wait
You are funny! You don't even realize that with the US dollar acting as the world's reserve currency and world's commodity exchange currency tribute is flowing into the US at a rate of about $1 trillion/year.
In fact we have a name or two for it: Current accounts balance is the formal name and double deficits (trade and deficit) is the informal name.
Man you should really pay more attention. You embarrass yourself.
There were already many areas that we were failing in before Bush. While he will likely be remembered as the most feckless President in our history, there are many architects to the decline of the US, if you bother to read the article.
Thus far, Trajan has made the only reply based on reading it.
Personally, I have no opinion as to whether we will see a rapid decline near the date stated. But the reasons stated are valid.
Taking down America: four scenarios for the end of the American Century by 2025 | Energy Bulletin
By 2008, the United States had already fallen to number three in global merchandise exports, with just 11% of them compared to 12% for China and 16% for the European Union. There is no reason to believe that this trend will reverse itself.
Similarly, American leadership in technological innovation is on the wane. In 2008, the U.S. was still number two behind Japan in worldwide patent applications with 232,000, but China was closing fast at 195,000, thanks to a blistering 400% increase since 2000. A harbinger of further decline: in 2009 the U.S. hit rock bottom in ranking among the 40 nations surveyed by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation when it came to change in global innovation-based competitiveness during the previous decade. Adding substance to these statistics, in October China's Defense Ministry unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, so powerful, said one U.S. expert, that it blows away the existing No. 1 machine in America.
Add to this clear evidence that the U.S. education system, that source of future scientists and innovators, has been falling behind its competitors. After leading the world for decades in 25- to 34-year-olds with university degrees, the country sank to 12th place in 2010. The World Economic Forum ranked the United States at a mediocre 52nd among 139 nations in the quality of its university math and science instruction in 2010. Nearly half of all graduate students in the sciences in the U.S. are now foreigners, most of whom will be heading home, not staying here as once would have happened. By 2025, in other words, the United States is likely to face a critical shortage of talented scientists.
No.Could this be the future?
Taking down America: four scenarios for the end of the American Century by 2025 | Energy Bulletin
A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Dont bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.
Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003.
Future historians are likely to identify the Bush administrations rash invasion of Iraq in that year as the start of America's downfall. However, instead of the bloodshed that marked the end of so many past empires, with cities burning and civilians slaughtered, this twenty-first century imperial collapse could come relatively quietly through the invisible tendrils of economic collapse or cyberwarfare
Taking down America: four scenarios for the end of the American Century by 2025 | Energy Bulletin
A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.
Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003.
Future historians are likely to identify the Bush administration’s rash invasion of Iraq in that year as the start of America's downfall. However, instead of the bloodshed that marked the end of so many past empires, with cities burning and civilians slaughtered, this twenty-first century imperial collapse could come relatively quietly through the invisible tendrils of economic collapse or cyberwarfare
Other than the paltry 2% FICA "holiday" there were no tax cuts.Sure as shootin'.....All the fault of BOOOOOOOOOOSH!
Loser.
Actually, since Obama sold out the American people for tax cuts, they're HIS baby now.
Some big accomplishments for someone everybody calls stupid....Versatile guy that Bush. Killed JFK and brought down the WTC.
that actually fits only the extremes, and it fits them on BOTH left AND righthonestly the cultest mentality of the right is pretty crazy - everyone is always against them the country is always under siege or about to be subverted by secret agents and enemies within...
they give a good paranoid a run for their money
There is no employer share...The money that goes to the "employer share" comes out of the percentage that employers have for payroll.Other than the paltry 2% FICA "holiday" there were no tax cuts.Actually, since Obama sold out the American people for tax cuts, they're HIS baby now.
And since we're talking, why nothing for the employer share of FICA?
shhhThere is no employer share...The money that goes to the "employer share" comes out of the percentage that employers have for payroll.Other than the paltry 2% FICA "holiday" there were no tax cuts.
And since we're talking, why nothing for the employer share of FICA?
By hook or crook, the employee pays it all.
Other than the paltry 2% FICA "holiday" there were no tax cuts.Actually, since Obama sold out the American people for tax cuts, they're HIS baby now.
he extended the ones that were supposed to expire.
