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Originally Posted by imcarthur
Ho hum. Just another empire crumbling . . .
Ian
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LOL, +1
We had a head start on industrialization post war but the rest of the world caught up or passed us. Some of the early advantage was unsustainable environmental degradation and unfair/unsafe labor practices that other nations are currently ignoring to their short term advantage. LBJ's "Great Society" has saddled us with progressively massive debt and government dependent, entitled, and essentially unemployable lower class that has forced reliance on illegal labor while third world birth rates and container shipping have eroded first world wages. On top of that, we have felt compelled to play world policeman at the expense of the American tax payer and their children and children's children.