Will America Fall?

[zajac]

RE: Re: Will America Fall?

I think that I shall just use an example of our current situation with oil... Aherm...

Oil prices are going up, and from an economic standpoint, many analysts don't really see the prices dropping at all... And with the way things are going, they will just continue to rise over time...

As time passes by, and oil being the scarce resource that it is, we will then have to switch over to other forms of fuel... Those others being electric cars... If electri cars were to begin being used as a MAJOR form of transportation, and oil will begiun to become a thing of the past, government will then have to tax people differently...

How will we be taxed differently? A rise in oil taxes for one, and then a rise in electric taxes and such, and THEN the governemt has thought about charging not only on electric bills and the works, but a tax according to how many miles we drive...

I've only barely begun to touch on the subject...

Think about it...

[Varia]

RE: Re: Will America Fall?

If you go to Japan and drive around and see a lot of different parts of the country, you will see that it just can't become a huge, huge world power. Just by looking at the houses and observing their daily habits and things like that, it is in my opinion that Japan just can't go much higher on the world scale.

And to be honest, Japan isn't really high tech. It's really low tech actually. Japan just has a lot of things that make life easier, and more comfortable. For example, the majority of houses have toilets with bidets or whatever. You know, the things that squirt water on your butt or whatever. On the contrary, most Japanese houses do not have dryers. They all hang their clothes out to dry, even in big cities like Tokyo and Osaka and Nagoya. Just because they have awesome cell phones and it takes a long time for their games to get to other countries doesn't make them high tech.

As far as America goes, it's going to be #1 until a new envy of the world pops up. Or Yellowstone erupts. Or whatever.

I'll be dead before America goes under.

[jewpinthethird]

Re: RE: Re: Will America Fall?

If you go to Japan and drive around and see a lot of different parts of the country, you will see that it just can't become a huge, huge world power. Just by looking at the houses and observing their daily habits and things like that, it is in my opinion that Japan just can't go much higher on the world scale.

And to be honest, Japan isn't really high tech. It's really low tech actually. Japan just has a lot of things that make life easier, and more comfortable. For example, the majority of houses have toilets with bidets or whatever. You know, the things that squirt water on your butt or whatever. On the contrary, most Japanese houses do not have dryers. They all hang their clothes out to dry, even in big cities like Tokyo and Osaka and Nagoya. Just because they have awesome cell phones and it takes a long time for their games to get to other countries doesn't make them high tech.

As far as America goes, it's going to be #1 until a new envy of the world pops up. Or Yellowstone erupts. Or whatever.

I'll be dead before America goes under.

One thing I'd like to add, I dont think Automatic Garage Door openers are big in Japan either. Given the girl I hosted was from an extremely rural area of Japan, still, come on, she'd never seen an automatic garage door!

[Cenright]

Re: RE: Re: Will America Fall?

I think that I shall just use an example of our current situation with oil... Aherm...

Many of you people forget, that when there are dire times, people make things change.

They know how to convert cars to natural gas. They were doing it in the 60's even. The reason it hasn't gotten big, is because the Oil companies have money in the government bureaucracies.

Oil is no problem at all. There are already things that could take over, AND natural gas is a renewable resource and is CLEAN BURNING. What more could you ask for? Instead of looking for solution, people scream "CRISIS!!!!" so and the oil companies make more money.

The only crisis there is, is finding a way to get people to see that there is no crisis. The oil companies are loving it.

[The_Q]

RE: Re: RE: Re: Will America Fall?

lackign the one thing that any nation needs to become an economic superpower: natural resources.

England imported many of its resources during its height. Then again, it was under a mercantilist system then.

Q

[ringzing]

america will fall to itself unfortunatley we are doing what the romans did we started going to war and then we met a greater forse and were distroyed

[MalReynolds]

MalReynolds came out of retirement to say:

I also think the stark decline in education is a reason we will be... distroyed.

Mal

[jewpinthethird]

MalReynolds came out of retirement to say:

I also think the stark decline in education is a reason we will be... distroyed.

Mal

Zing.

[LegendaryDJ]

Yes, ofcourse, to all your responses. Yes we could go into a civil war depopulating and destroying ourselves, Yes we could go into a war with North Korea, China, Britian(not likely), Canada, ect......

But, What about those of religous beliefs? It is said that one day the lord will shake the earth greatly and send forth the return of the messiah to send his message. Known as the great and terrible day of the lord. The day when earth is in it's final war. There are many things that could already be a sign of this war such as us and Iraq, North Korea, and many other places. If this continues could it trigger a World War III? As the age of man comes crashing down. But then who says it will. It is only a possibility. But if it did, that doesn't nessicarely mean it is the last war of our time? All things end. After they end. A new becomes the beginning. Also, I have been reading some things about the apocalypse and how it gives some sort of clues in the Roman Catholic Bible. But, that is for another thread i suppose. But if your interested in things like that or Nostradamus and his prediction of 9/11. Then talk to me on my AIM screen name: DJ2570