USA will suffer same fate as past empires?

Quick history lesson for you, kids.

Rome was one of the greastest empires the world had ever seen. It stretched from Britain to eastern India, looping around the Mediaterrainian. It had more people, more warriors, better technology and a better economy than any other civilization around. It was the only game in town. Sound familiar?

Yet, it still fell. How? Internal struggle. A series of terrible emperors (Caligula, Nero and Cladius jump immediately to mind) weakened the empire, as did the division by Constantine. From there, both sides -east and west- fell within 200 years.

Lessons to be learned:

1. Crappy leadership brings great things to ruin. Case in point, George Bush.

2. The bigger you get, the harder you fall. Once rome started sliding, there was no stopping it. Inertia carried it to the ground, and it simply couldn't get back up.

3. No matter how hard you push your culture on others, it doesn't matter. within 50 years of the fall of the empire, life had basically gone back to 'normal' for the inhabitants of Iberia, Gaul, Britanica, Egypt, ect. Once teh West falls out of dominance -and trust me, it will- no one will give a rat's ass about our macdonalds, our text books, our literature, our culture. The world simply will not care.

Read your history books, and prevent mistakes.




DE

a broke empire with a lot of broke citizens? how many trillions are we in debt? how many trillions or billions do people owe in just credit card debt? our crutch are these numbers that come out all the time saying how great everything is with the economy, or employment or whatever. everything is a lie, so the people won't go into panic mode...yet. think of it this way if the dollar loses it's value, it's over, not much to put your faith in there to me. warren buffet sure pulled his investments out of the dollar and put them into the euro, he didn't become a billionaire by being dumb. the only question is when is this thing going to pop?

all i can think of there is that smart money moves to make more money quicker !! the markets are almost where they was pre 9/11
indicating proberly not much money to be made in the dollar at the moment
but US position has a better infrastructure globally

the u.s. is strong externaly but not internally...our $$ system is based on llies, deceit and a trust that 'it will keep working' , business and corps that willing lend lend lend; facilitating the american lifestyle- living beyond your means, pay for jobs that is no where near the cost of living and business that don't care, a govt that is so caught up in trying to keep whatever party is in power that nothing else matters, illegal immigrents who get paid by the govt, debt that is mathimaticaly impossible to repay, a citezenry that is so uninformed and spineless that it is mind-boggling and a whole host of other internal stuggles.........the u.s.does not need terrorists, china, russia, natural disasters to destroy it....the u.s. needs to worry about the u.s. we are our own worst enemy and have done more damage than another nation could hope to do. the u.s is like a punch drunk boxxer....will he stay on his feet long enough to stay away from more punches in order to regain some composure or will he just keep getting punched? the funny part is that we are shadow boxing..............