[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).

[Grando Calrissian]

We are a country of immigrants with a monetary system built on debt run by corrupt politicians. As it was in 1790, as it is now.