[esarlls3]

See also other threads about David Walker's writings:

• Oct 28, 2006: GAO Chief Warns Economic Disaster Looms [AP]
  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1727669/posts
• Aug 3, 2006: U.S. Comptroller General Warns the Nation of Economic Calamity [NewsMax]
  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1677107/posts

[Wiz]

Our continent is not so large and competitive as Eurasia, and we have technology to overcome the transportation and communication lags.

[Bonaparte]

"Walker, who was appointed during the Clinton administration to the post, which carries a 15-year term."

No comment.

[Grimmy]

Here’s a lesson from Rome that’s appropriate to our times:

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.”

Quote by:

Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
Date:42 B.C.
Source:Speech in the Roman Senate
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/marcus_tullius_cicero_quote_b6ea

Another lesson is to stand fast against the leftists constantly attacking the foundations of our republic.

[onedoug]

To conclude this piece I come to my third and last heresy. My third heresy says that the United States has less than a century left of its turn as top nation. Since the modern nation-state was invented around the year 1500, a succession of countries have taken turns at being top nation, first Spain, then France, Britain, America. Each turn lasted about 150 years. Ours began in 1920, so it should end about 2070. The reason why each top nation’s turn comes to an end is that the top nation becomes over-extended, militarily, economically and politically. Greater and greater efforts are required to maintain the number one position. Finally the over-extension becomes so extreme that the structure collapses. Already we can see in the American posture today some clear symptoms of over-extension. Who will be the next top nation? China is the obvious candidate. After that it might be India or Brazil. We should be asking ourselves, not how to live in an America-dominated world, but how to prepare for a world that is not America-dominated. That may be the most important problem for the next generation of Americans to solve. How does a people that thinks of itself as number one yield gracefully to become number two? --Freeman Dyson, HERETICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

[goldstategop]

Nothing will be done. The Democrats won't do it and the GOP is too chicken to reduce government and eliminate entitlements.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[JennysCool]

The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country’s top government inspector has warned.

I see Walker got the DNC fax.

[microgood]

I am not sure this will bring down the country because he is looking at this from a financial responsibility point of view. For example, last year the deficit if calculated like a corporation would have to do it resulted in a deficit of 11.3 trillion due to the financial liabilities of incurred from Bush's medical prescription drug program.

What it does mean, although the US will not fall, is that noone under 55 will ever see a nickel of Social Security or Medicare. Plan ahead.

The other thing to consider is that the dollar will significantly decline in value over the next 10 years. Buy gold or another currency or something as holding on to the greenback will be suicide.

[jongaltsr]

Don’t forget the fact that in Rome the Senators were paying the Visigoths, Goths and Huns for their votes and it was the disruption caused by these foreigners that cause Rome to fall. The “Barbarians” as we refer to them, did not acclimate to the rest of Roman society.

Sound familiar with today’s situation with our Senators and Congress doing everything to get the vote from the Illegals?

[Roy Tucker]

Thomas Malthus first proposed the Demographic Doom scenario in 1798. Didn’t quite work out for him.

Forecasters such as Walker always discount man’s ability to find new technology to offset doom scenarios well before they develop. Moreover, Walker’s message appears to be “more taxes”, not surprisingly for a Democrat appointed by Bill Clinton in 1998.

[drzz]

The first reason of the fall of Rome is the MORALLY fall.

Be warned : LIBERALISM never built any successful civilization anywhere, anytime.

LIBERALISM destroys civilization.

[LibLieSlayer]

USA will endure... and what is this... the left's 2,312th story trying to kill off America. It was BS the first time I read it... and the stench and decay increases with each new addition.

LLS

[sumocide]

If it’s citizens see little benefit in keeping a nation any minor disturbance can trigger disintegration. And such fate has befallen America before. Only the military conquest by the North reversed it.

Currently I don’t see a comparable situation. Most important the American dream ís still alive. Best would be to keep it that way.