Proud Canadian
No, but it will take a lot of reforms and progress to be quite the same.
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.
Gunpla is amazing!
You double posted this topic by the way.
And no. It'll probably scale back a bit (Which is a good thing I think) but collapse? Nah.
We were pretty effing close though with the debt ceiling, I admit...
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I sorta doubt it.
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Like Abrams tanks, we're built to last. We ain't going anywhere.
vigilantly taxonomish
Can't see it happening.
Nah, I don't see us collapsing entirely unless something akin to World War 3 broke out, or some major apocalypse-level catastrophe happening.
It is possible.
But I doubt it.
You know... Rome did not collapse in one day.
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.
I changed accounts.
I think the US will still exist when I die. I do not believe it will be recognizably similar, however, in both the sense of government and culture...
I am now known as Flyboy.
How do you think the culture will change?
I changed accounts.
We'll probably be more liberal. Eventually—hopefully—the religious fundamentalism will die. Past that, how should I know?
That's like asking someone who was alive in the '20s what they thought the world would be like in the '90s...
I am now known as Flyboy.
Gunpla is amazing!
I can also see America scaling down its standard of living. Not completely, but hopefully we wont live beyond our means anymore.
I changed accounts.
If I had my way and the idea of "old money" ceased to exist, we'd have so much money we wouldn't know what hit us...
I am now known as Flyboy.
well, the only reason why I would like to live till an old age would be seeing how all this things actually turned out.
That and the flying cars.
edited 21st Aug '11 5:11:02 PM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.
"Old money" hasn't been in any significant capacity since the middle 19th century in this country. 95% of everyone who makes 1 million or more (especially more) made it in their lifetimes, not inheriting a dime.
I honestly hope we can either eliminate, or at the least scale way the fuck back, the political factionalism that plagues Congress.
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citation needed
edited 21st Aug '11 5:13:00 PM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.
Proud Canadian
The nouveau riche is the dominant breed in the States.
edited 21st Aug '11 5:12:10 PM by Erock
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.
I changed accounts.
Even the 5% is still a shitton of money, and they new money is going to leave money to their kids, no?
The US isn't poor. It just has a fairly small subset of the population with all the money. If the top—oh, what was it, 5%? 1%?—part of society can pay off the entire national debt nearly six times over, and yet we have about a 6th of the population that's at or below the poverty line, something is very wrong...
edited 21st Aug '11 5:14:31 PM by USAF713
I am now known as Flyboy.
^^^ The Forbes 500 list to start.
edited 21st Aug '11 5:13:53 PM by MajorTom
that is not a citation.
edited 21st Aug '11 5:14:21 PM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.
^ Look it up yourself. None of the top US names on it are "old money". Not. A. One.
lol at how you are implaying 95% of the wealth is in the top 1%
@ Erock. And the nuevo pauvre are getting bigger too - former middle-class people being displaced.
Spun off from the "End Times" thread. Do you think the U.S. has started to lurch towards it's downfall? Anything from outright ceasing to exist, major fracturing, civil war, or major reforms to our government. If so, how long do you think we will last?
I think that, unless something drastic happens, we probably will not have the same U.S., if any, by the end of the century.