When will the United States collapse?

Answer 1

Empires always fall for the same reason: they try to extend because they've used up their own resources, and eventually outstretch their reach.

It happened to the Greeks, the Romans, the catho-lice, the Ottomans, the mongols, the Chinese, the Russians, the Soviets, the Germans, the Italians, the Spanish, the French, the English, and now it's happenning to the yanks.

The US empire has already been in decline since the 1960s, it's just speeded up in the last six years of George Putz.


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Answer 2

My gosh I should stop coming to this website.
Seriously how many of you are on medication???

Like this guy who says:
never....the left will try...but we will fight back

And get 5 thumbs up!!!!

The left.
The left.
Clinton guided this nation into an industrial revolution a second renaissance, the stock market broke 10k for the first time ever, interest rates were at an all time low, venture capital spending was at an all time high! Do you have any clue how many small businesses launched during the era of "the left".
We established good will with foreign countries.

I mean are you people being sarcastic!?!?!!
Goddness gracious you are behaving naive.

You look down your noses at these people organizing and protesting and marching and wailing against the right's behavior.
Not just in this country but in every civilized nation!!!
You can site there thinking you are smarter than these hundreds of thousands of people! Wait not only that, but that they are terrorists, and insane, and all the other hateful rhetoric.

How?
How do you feel this planet is better since GWB has taken over?
Everyone I talk to is clear that the quality of life has gone down.
Wages have, spending has, business has.

It's inexcusable that you are so willfully ignorant.






To answer the question - in my opinion it is more likely America will lead the way to a multi-national government before it has a chance to collapse.

Answer 3

Hopefully never. There are a lot of factors that could, but probably won't cause such a collapse. One thing is that with all the foreign investors, if they all got together and decided to call in all the money they have invested the treasury would probably go broke and that would lead to government, as we know it, collapse. It would also mean no more convenience stores and gas stations. Have you noticed that a large majority of them are owned by middle easterners? The Japanese also hold a lot of the economy in their hands.

Answer 4

That can't be predicted with any accuracy. There are too many verables.

Alot of things can lead to a collapse : people realize our money is backed up by nothing but a mass dillusion, Terrorists cripple the infrastructure, Nuclear war, desease ETC.

It's not a matter of if, but when.

Answer 5

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy; (We are here!)
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million;
Bush: 143 million;
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush:
2,427,000
States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2 Bush: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger.

Answer 6

If and when Hillary becomes president. She is a Socialist, and America doesn't believe in that. Liberals confuse Socialism with Liberalism, so that is the only way she might get elected. Some day America will collaspe. I believe that. What goes up, must come down. The Greek and Roman empires did, and unfortuantely, so will USA. The later the better, but the sooner will come, if Hellary is elected, I have no doubt.

Answer 7

I hope that it never does, but I agree with mcmustang. If we continue to surrender our individual freedoms, it will only be a matter of time. A student of history will notice that fear and scarcity have led Americans to surrender individual sovereignty at a pretty consistent pace throughout our history. Think of the Great Depression, and, more recently, 9-11 and how Americans are like, "Yeah, take nude photos of me and my wife and kids before we get on an airplane. We'd rather live in 1984 than have to worry about terrorism!"

Answer 8

hopefully it wont, but as a Brit looking in i think you have a lot of hard decisions to make. the top 10 banks in the world used to be American, today theres none in the top 20. Asia is taking jobs, money away from the west. china as it stands will be the biggest economy in the world, very soon. globalization is screwing us all not nice things to say but unfortunately true, now Iran and Venezuela want to price oil in euros, good luck America i hope and pray you come through it but it wont be easy, PS the UK will always be there for you not much but hey better than nothing i guess

Answer 9

Not until all the other countries in the world are ruled by anarchists. And, even then it is doubtful that the US will collapse. I sure hope not because I really like living in the US. Ain't no better place in the world.

Answer 10

Not soon enough for liberals.
Me I think this nation needs to be around for a long time.
We are the only ones who will stand up to evil and help provide aid to poor through out the world more privately and by the government than any other nation in the world.