Nice post, but nothing acts in a vaccuum. If the U.S. falls, then so does the rest of the world. So many economies are tied into the dollar and the artificial infrastructure of the U.S. that if it fails, other economies would collapse right after it.

Originally posted by beezzer
If the U.S. falls, then so does the rest of the world.

So true. Ever since the Cold War, the concept of Mutually Assured (Economic) Destruction has spread, interlacing the entire civilized world. When Greece falls, the entire Euroworld will begin to follow. The US will be next.
Of course, it would all happen far more quickly when the US and Canada and Mexico all get the Amero. And then, hay! Let us combine the Amero and the Euro! That is a new conspiracy: the Ameuro!
I am going to go write a thread about it. Be right back.

Peace,
SeraphNB

The issue is not that the US has a fiat currency, as you say other countries have that too. The issue is that the only thing that has allowed the US dollar to keep any semblence of value is the 'trust' that other countries have in US dollar assets and the use of the dollar in oil transactions.

Other countries don't rely on 'trust' and 'oil transactions'; their economy is based on selling tangible goods and having a surplus.

I see no reason for the rest of the world to fall if the USA does. That is a comfortable thought for Americans no doubt (well, if we are screwed then we're takin yall with us!!), but its not reality. Reality is that other countries can easily transition to other currencies in international trade (it's happening already little by little) and other countries can simply trade with eachother and maintain a semblence of normalcy and even prosper. If the US falls it is because the dollar is valueless and because the US has nothing to offer the world in terms of exporting something tanglible and useful and even lacking in the ability to be a market for other coutries' goods. When that happens the US is already irrelvent; other countries will not fall just because the USA does.

Let me put it more clearly:

Imagine a GIANT METEOR hitting the USA tomorow. If it turned the entire North American continent into a crater, do you honestly believe the rest of the world would die? That no country would take the place of the USA as a superpower? That no-one else in the world would have money, food, or services? Hell no! And a giant meteor is not going to hit the USA! Simply the USA will become irrelevent thanks to a worthless dollar. The world can do just fine without the USA.

dude America is done, its over... its going to end one way or another

it doesnt matter how many revolutions we have its still going down to hell

why? the people are idiots.

In Australia its a given that the CHINESE are about to UNSURP the AMERICAN DOLLAR soon.
I weep personally at this as many millions of Aussies will.
I do not WANT THE chinese DICTATING ANYTHING, BUT ALAS ITS FACT.
NO WAR nah the sacrifices were illusions built on bllod and bone deaths.
This world will be owned by the Chinese and Indian, because they bought traitors.
UNDERSTAND TRAITORS SOLD US OUT TO GENOCIDE.
WE are all so stupid.