US Has No Ability to Pay Back Debt

[Atheist-Lite]

My other machiine runs LINUX. Don't need crummy windows no more. Just 'cos merica 'vented interweb don't mean it got the copyright on the babbage engine.

FreeBSD.

I prefer Linux though.

Your Babbage engine run on an Intel or Intel-derived chip by any chance?

I'm not sure of the particulars. Still trying to figure out eprom's, whatever they where?

[MiM]

No, but we're the root of technology of the world, and that's more important than ever

Mesopotamia-China-Cairo-Athens-Bysanth-Rome-Constantine-(Darkness)-Germany/England-USA-Global...

In no certain order and certainly with omissions and maybe faults. The USA has made its short blimp in history, and now it's up to you to keep your torch alight. The rest of the world will go on, with or without you.

[Warren Dew]

You/we could win in a month if we were truly committed to invading, occupying and colonising. ..Not to mention suppressing!

We could win, yes, if nothing else by using nukes as laklak says. Occupation is a lot tougher. You Brits used to know how to run colonies, but we never got the knack of it.

[Azathoth]

My other machiine runs LINUX. Don't need crummy windows no more. Just 'cos merica 'vented interweb don't mean it got the copyright on the babbage engine.

FreeBSD.

I prefer Linux though.

Your Babbage engine run on an Intel or Intel-derived chip by any chance?

Why didn't I think of that. If that market opened up nobody else could possibly fill the niche. We are all doomed

[Gawd]

Seth, you just don't get it. The US market is non-existent, it is all made up of debt. The Chinese will become the largest market in the world and grow once it doesn't have to keep propping up the deadbeat drunk that is America.

[Robert_S]

Seth, you just don't get it. The US market is non-existent, it is all made up of debt. The Chinese will become the largest market in the world and grow once it doesn't have to keep propping up the deadbeat drunk that is America.

What's going to happen when China's workers get the higher wages? They'll probably buy our stuff.

[klr]

Seth, you just don't get it. The US market is non-existent, it is all made up of debt. The Chinese will become the largest market in the world and grow once it doesn't have to keep propping up the deadbeat drunk that is America.

What's going to happen when China's workers get the higher wages? They'll probably buy our stuff.

I can see it now: "Shoddy American imports ..."

[Gawd]

No need, the Chinese workers already make all your stuff.

[Gawd]

Seth, you just don't get it. The US market is non-existent, it is all made up of debt. The Chinese will become the largest market in the world and grow once it doesn't have to keep propping up the deadbeat drunk that is America.

What's going to happen when China's workers get the higher wages? They'll probably buy our stuff.

I can see it now: "Shoddy American imports ..."

American made stuff already have the reputation of being low quality because American workers don't work as hard as the Chinese ones.

[Robert_S]

Seth, you just don't get it. The US market is non-existent, it is all made up of debt. The Chinese will become the largest market in the world and grow once it doesn't have to keep propping up the deadbeat drunk that is America.

What's going to happen when China's workers get the higher wages? They'll probably buy our stuff.

I can see it now: "Shoddy American imports ..."

American made stuff already have the reputation of being low quality because American workers don't work as hard as the Chinese ones.

Do you see a lot of Chinese cars? My last Honda was made in the USA.

[Tero]

If money were real, it would be a problem.

[Azathoth]

Seth, you just don't get it. The US market is non-existent, it is all made up of debt. The Chinese will become the largest market in the world and grow once it doesn't have to keep propping up the deadbeat drunk that is America.

What's going to happen when China's workers get the higher wages? They'll probably buy our stuff.

I can see it now: "Shoddy American imports ..."

American made stuff already have the reputation of being low quality because American workers don't work as hard as the Chinese ones.

Do you see a lot of Chinese cars? My last Honda was made in the USA.

No, quite a lot of japanese and taiwanese ones though

[Gawdzilla Sama]

No, quite a lot of japanese and taiwanese ones though

Subaru is made in Indiana. There are more.

[Exi5tentialist]

It's all very well lowering taxes, and then lowering them again, and again over a 2-decade period, but that way, at some point, the government isn't going to be able to pay its debts. We can merrily discuss theories around where America goes after reaching its relative economic zenith, and the decline of US power is jolly interesting I'm sure, but sooner or later all governments in the west are going to have to rely on tax not more debt to meet the demands on them. I know the rich aren't happy about it, having successfully cut big government already, but the equation in play is really a rather simple one: income and expenditure must, over time, balance.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Republicans only care about pleasing their owners. So taxes for the rich will be held artificially low.