Given the current state of the union, what future do you foresee for the USA?

Question

Any and all honest answers welcome. positive or negative. (Please do not violate for difference in opinion when the answer is appropriately stated)

Answer 1

An accelerating downward spiral with a sudden stop and crash and burn at the bottom! This result will hurt those with the most the most! The rank and file people will not have far to fall! Remember when your at the bottom the only way to go is up! It can't get any worse! Who has the most to lose,why the republicans of course!

Answer 2

If the next president gets all the tax cuts repealed, the current great economy will go into a dramatic tailspin with many more jobs taken out of country. The democratic proposals for socialized medicine and overall socialist government will cause the worst period in American History.

Much of this could be salvaged if The Fair Tax is passed, but that goes against the "Tax America to Death" policy of the democrats.

Answer 3

It is fairly clear that George Bush and the republicans have sucked up almost a trillion American dollars and poured it into an empty hole in Iraq while China has been growing militarily and economically by leaps and bounds. America has an elderly population getting older every day. It might hope for a Sweden-like existence, except that another republican is likely to get elected who would then deplete the rest of America's money on some other great adventure.

Answer 4

Unless the Federal government gets its priorities straight and does what it is supposed to be doing there will be very grave consequences, and we are already seeing the results of that in the swarm of millions of illegal aliens who are flooding the country from Mexico and bilking US taxpayers out of untold billions of dollars every year. Instead of involving the US in meddling in the business of foreign countries such as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the US should be turning its attention to making life better for Americans at home. The Feds are willing to spend billions a month in Iraq but nothing to help New Orleans recover. There is something fundamentally flawed with this policy.

Taken to the logical extreme, if the Federal government continues to refuse to take aggressive and assertive measures against the Mexican government and against the millions of illegals already robbing the US blind, we could see a situation where California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas are all ripped out of the Union and returned to Mexico.

It is amazing to me that the US government refuses to do the things it is supposed to do and instead dabbles in trivialities and ignores what matters to US citizens. If it continues in this manner the entire Southwest will be lost to a foreign country.

Answer 5

A new president in 2008, specifically a Democrat, must rebuild whats left of America's foreign policies and must find a new way to deal with terrorism covertly, and must find a way to live with China as an ally, rather than to be concerned about it. The friendly they are to China, the less of a chance there will be of continuing military buildup. America must also deal with many problems within its own borders, such as lowering taxes, improving health care and issues, and doing something about illegal immigration.

Answer 6

The U.S.A. has a long history of moderation, which I sincerely hope will continue.
We seem to notice only the loudest of the fringe and ignore the quite multitude which comprises the majority of the people.
With God's guidance, we will continue on a moderate path and thus continue.
If we wander off to one side or the other (either way--liberal or conservative--extremity ends in dictatorship), we are probably doomed to another armed revolution.

Answer 7

Speaking specifically with respect to international relations which seems to be the driving issue of our day our future can still be positive.

The reality is that the world needs America, but America needs the world to like it as well; this is a totally interdependent relationship even though the world really does count on America for a lot more than America counts on the world. By providing loans and emergency bailout funds, providing the world with it's currency (the dollar), stationing military instillations around the world in order to provide governments reassurance and deterrence without charging these governments anything or even receiving anything in return, by assuming principle responsibility for the safe transport of important commodities assuring the global economy can continue to turn, and by dealing the rogue regimes the United States has provided to the world many of the same types of services to the world that governments offer their own people. Rome was once described as "the anchor to the floating world"; America has become the water in which the floating world floats.

However, America must be likeable if it is to continue to be leader of the world, which is not a guaranteed position but is one that America must constantly prove itself worthy of. It looks good so far. Europe still lacks the requisite political unity it would take to propel themselves on the world stage as a long lasting superpower and viable leader of the international community; Russia doesn't have the wherewithal nor credibility to lead the international community, and is trying to decide if it wants to be a genuine European democracy or a backward Eurasian quasi dictatorship driven by memories of a more glorious but tyrannizing imperial past; China is certainly the rising economic power of East Asia, but still has a tremendous competitor in Japan which is the second largest economy in the world, and will probably eventually shed their passive military skin from the aftermath of their defeat in world war two through an American drafted constitution which forbids them from having an offensive military. If this happens Japan can easily establish itself as the principle military power of East Asia. If this happens America must bring Japan into NATO or China will attempt to counter this "perceived threat" by building their own military, which despite all the media and Hollywood hype is not something they're doing now. China knows that they have a growing interdependent relationship with America and if Japan becomes NATO it checks them so to speak. The moral of this is that Japan has more power than China and will continue to for some time. China also hasn't figured out how to fix the basic contradiction of a freewheeling capitalist economy and the current dictatorial political architecture of their government which is an internal disaster waiting to happen. India is also a rising economic power with more political credibility than Russia or China, but hasn't demonstrated how they can overcome to ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences of their country if they become politically charged which they probably will.

America has a total monopoly on military might and forward operating capability, an economy second to none (the only other political unit in the world to match America's economic output is the EU, a union of 27 nations) and technological advances that continue to give it unique political clout. But we have all this because we have not been significantly challenged by legitimate contenders. This is so because governments around the world for the most part appreciate what America does in the world. But for us to effectively lead the international system we need the support of other countries. An America aware of its global responsibilities, with a sense of humility and social responsibility, and consensual abroad rather than abrasive (in other words totally different from America today) is still an America many people around the world would like to see leading the world.

Answer 8

I think much of the answer depends on who is elected in '08. I worry that we are becoming a little too socialistic, and I'm worried that in the future our freedoms of choice will disappear. I think we will continue to change, and adapt, just as this country always has, but unless we start standing firm on some issues, we may see something unrecognizeable in 20 years.

Thanks for a well thought question.

Answer 9

a more balanced approach for all world problems by the leadership of u.s.a. gives more respect to the nation. not the exhibit of might!

Answer 10

The economy is in the dumps and the only one winning will be cor prate America. Things must change and change soon. We are no longer a world power and we have very few allies