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To: A. Pole

"Perhaps, and so were the Romans, Spanish and British before their empires started to collapse."

With the small difference that each of those 'empires' were built upon and operating within completely different global economic systems than the one in which the United States operates today.


80 posted on 12/31/2006 7:41:39 AM PST by Sandreckoner
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To: Sandreckoner
Perhaps, and so were the Romans, Spanish and British before their empires started to collapse."

With the small difference that each of those 'empires' were built upon and operating within completely different global economic systems than the one in which the United States operates today.

Are you saying that Romans were in the same economic system than Spanish? Yet the same general rule applies.

92 posted on 12/31/2006 7:53:03 AM PST by A. Pole (M. Boskin: "It doesn't make any difference whether a country makes potato chips or computer chips!")
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