[Grando Calrissian]

The same meltdown that's been promised since the end of World War II.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

So you must think the country (culturally, morally, spirtually) must be in much better shape today than in previous times. I don't think a glut of Chinese doodads at Walmart is any indication of the health of the nation.

[warchild9]

Unsupportable public and private debt, unstopped foreign invasion, shrinking industrial base, fianancing an obvious peer competitor, a profoundly corrupt political system...there's more. With the exception of the latter, we didn't have these problems in WWII (and I know, since my present PhD thesis covers many of these topics...you'll get to see it when I publish).