[ConservativeCompendium.net]

Just what I was thinking.

Let's see. We have a civil economy worth $43 trillion that earns us what? 12 trillion a year?

We have a reservior in the middle of the country (don't remember the name) that has like 20 quadrillion gallons of water in it.

We have 12 carrier battle groups, hundreds of stealth fighters, dozens to hundreds of subs.

| We're the worlds major food producer.

We're the only ones who have landed a man on the moon and returned him safely to the Earth - a dozen times.

But we're going to lose all of this and the world is going to catch up just like *snap* that.

yeah, never heard this song and dance before.

Course, the never quite get around to explaining HOW we're going to lose this dominance, just that it's gonna *POOF* happen.

[Darkwolf377]

The weirdest thing about these predictions, IMHO, is that they're always based on some figure like China's GDP or something, and yet DECADES of towering US GDP means nothing due to a disastrous quarter. (Yes, I'm oversimplifying, but I'm talking about the writers of these pieces choosing one "apocalyptic" figure and using that as their entire "factual" basis for these silly predictions.)

The same folks who denounce the US for being some capitalist beast always point to the rise of countries which would NEVER allow 1/100th of the freedom, the liberty, and the acceptance of those outside the mainstream--as if NOW making a nice pile of money is all that matters when guaging a nation's rise and fall.

One word: Japan. Remember back when Japan was about to own us all, own all our property, and we were talking about "well, we're ok because they can't vote," as if that was all that was protecting us from becoming Japanese servants?

These articles are written for a political reason, period. Anyone who tells you statisticians and scientists and analysts are objective intellectuals with no political agenda to promote is an utter fool.

[Jimmy Valentine]

The very worst thing for the rest of the world is if we do an "Atlas Shrugged" on them.

If we pull back, the restof the world will rapidly sink into complete anarchy and human misery.