[AntiGuv]

Once we're done importing third world status, what's beyond that??

[hedgetrimmer]

Not freedom, not liberty, that much is certain.

[hedgetrimmer]

"They are going to lay out a plan of action that leads Canada, Mexico and the United States toward deeper integration," said Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, director of the Mexico Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

"This North American initiative is the beginning of redefining the relationship between our three countries," he said.

--President Bush will try to ease tensions at economic summit
March 21, 2005

[RightWhale]

Once we're done importing third world status, what's beyond that??

Whether that will be the result is still to be seen. The intent is to bring lagging countries up closer to our level so our market can continue to grow, but 'then what' is a good point. The Club of Rome would be essentially right so long as we restrict ourselves to earthbased commerce even including nanotech and AI. If we open outer space to commercialization the limit wouldn't be quite as obvious.

[TexasRepublic]

Once we're done importing third world status, what's beyond that??

A steadily worsening economy, popular demand for relief, the election of a dictator, the imposition of communism, the killing fields. This is a time-proven forumla for national ruin. The end-product of liberalism is death - it has nowhere else to go.