sethnintendo said:
iFlow said:
Nations aren't likely as to fall in today's modern era. Ottomans fell because of the World War, thats what happens when you take stand against the world's allied powers. The British Empire only "fell" because the rise of a new modern era of guidelines and government. England is still a VERY powerful nation. The USSR was never really meant to succeed. Look at the World wars, and the Cold War. But Russia is still a nation.
So to say that the states will fall is a little too steep. We won't be top dogs much longer (China and India) but we will still be a World power. We've been through worse in terrible times. But as technology and the new era comes, its only hard to imagine how a nation would fall. Thank you technology, internet, and wahtever else that has improved our lives.
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Weapons is about the only thing USA can produce now. To have your economy based on a consumer economy probably isn't the smartest idea. A nation has to be able to produce something. Sadly our manufacturing base has shrunk a lot due to lay offs and outsourcing. Manufacturing industry used to be where you could make a decent wage. Most manufacturing jobs in Texas pay no more than 8-10 dollars a hour for the average worker (not talking about engineers, management, etc). Pretty hard to support yourself let alone a family on less than 10 dollars a hour. Manufacturing in USA is a joke and the only thing you can except is that you will probably be laid off.
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Manufacturing is a joke in america at the moment, but that won't be the cause of our downfall. We won't fall apart as a nation unless we turn our backs on Nato and/or the UN. If we were to become a very evil country that was against everyone else (World Wars for example, Axis powers) then yeah, we will fall apart. However, that is very unlikely to happen soon so it's safe to say that the states won't fall. If we do lose world power status, we will still be a nation.
Like I said earlier, it's hard to imagine a modern era nation being destroyed (only war can do this). Countries are only determined nations by exploration or war. Nations fall because of war.
Back to the main point, life will become better soon in the USA. Unemployment is so high because of the Baby boomers. Once they leave and retire, manufacturing, outsourcing, and other issues shouldn't be anything like it is now.
