Posted on 03/19/2014 9:08:46 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
That's destroyed many middle class American jobs, while enriching a few at the top.
Buts it's reversible. We can raise the import tariffs. Restore American industry. Put people back to work. And in the process we'd raise government revenues and reduce government outlays.
I’ve seen a few documentaries that said there was a big population decline among Romans in the last 200 years of the Empire. Per the below link, apparently plagues were to blame:
http://www.unrv.com/empire/roman-population.php
The elites believe there is only one solution. One world government and millions exterminated.
As it was in the 1990s when the Clintons were in charge. The first White House website demonized the 12 years of "Reagan-Bush" and described how the wonderful Bill Clinton corrected things.
The USPS created a series of stamps to celebrate the 20th Century, the public could vote on some of the stamps, others were approved internally.
The 1990s had things like "The Clinton Economy" but there were also cheers for various liberal programs, PBS, et al.
The government is going to need a top down cleaning to rout out the fifth columnist elements.
More taxpayer money tossed down the rat hole
"The stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity
The problem of natural resources is strictly one of usability, accessibility, and economy. The only effective limit on the supply of such economically usable natural resources-that is, natural resources in the sense in which they constitute wealth-is the state of scientific and technological knowledge and the quantity and quality of capital equipment available. The supply of economically usable natural resources is capable of virtually limitless increase. It increases as man expands his knowledge of and physical power over the world and universe.
the economic stratification of society into Elites and Masses.
In a free society, with a modern division of labor, natural inequalities that are due to both the existence of differences in mental and physical abilities and the existence of pro-business conditions, lead to increased motivation to and means of the accumulation of capital, which benefits the masses by increasing economic progress and general prosperity.
When NASA gets humans to Mars, I can think of a few people who should be left there permanently.
NASA is full of BS. What do they know about ‘collapse’? Someone must be paying them to putout this ‘crap’.
Interesting link. Claims perhaps 45M around 50 AD, and 65M to 130M in 150, which is a remarkably broad range!
Then down to around 40M by 200, with a recovery to 55M or so by the time of Constantine.
I didn’t see anything in here claiming a major decline specifically in the 5th century, which is when the Western Empire fell apart.
As far as plague causing empire to collapse, one of the best documented and catastrophic epidemics of ancient times was the Plague of Justinian, and while it hit some rough patches, the empire didn’t collapse as a result. In fact, the Empire expanded quite significantly under Justinian.
Insofar as relative demographic pressure on each side of the frontiers, there is no major reason I can think of to assume the barbarians were less affected by plagues than the citizens of the empire.
Anywho, to my mind at least, the empire did not collapse as a result of barbarian pressure, which was there throughout its history. Whatever the cause, which no doubt had many aspects, I believe it was at root internal, not external. Suicide, not murder.
As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his Labour fix a property in: whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others.
Near as I can tell that stratification was already in place when the society started.
Roman: Aristocrats and plebs
Babylonians: Aristocrats and everyone else
Egyptians: Pharaohs and everyone else Mongol hoard: Warriors and everyone else... Etc, etc and, of course, etc. What fueled their rise may have contributed to their downfall but it was usually someone with a better organizational model who came along and knocked them down. even if that model was similar and was carried out with more passion.
Would someone provide an example of an EQUAL society?
EQUALITY is now a codeword for centralized, autocratic control of property, i.e. We own the fruits of your labor.
I get really tired of godless, tyrant wannabe's trying to guilt me into submission to their thievery.
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