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Originally Posted by Socks
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To address that:
Rome fell for this very reason.
Rome became a large empire, as well as an extravagant one, by taking over its neighbors. The newly conquered were pillaged for their wealth and force into slave labor like conditions. Those that were nomadic were forced to become farmers to grow crops for Rome.
Eventually Rome took over just about everyone they could that had money. Having spent everything Rome became bankrupt and the army could no longer be paid. Companies (of soldiers) banded together to become armies of their own and began taking what is needed from fellow Romans. This left Rome vulnerable to outside attack and led to their slaves becoming formidable armies.
America has a state called California. It is the 8th largest economy in the world. California's economy is the size of Italy's economy!
California is currently running over 20 billion dollars behind. The USA federal gov't is having similar problems. Extend this kind of spending out 10 years and you can see Asian countries banding together to fuck America over.
Remember, China and the Middle East are as bad as Hitler. They want to take over the world. They don't buy into all of this respecting borders stuff or the United Nations. In fact, they use the UN against itself like a lawyer uses loop holes to get a client off.
No problem for me though... I don't mind moving to Canada or some other nation when the shit hits the fan. I live on the Internet ;)
Of course if the above nations or regions take over the Internet porn is fucked.