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Well, I don't think China is living sustainably either. I see it more likely that south america and europe strengthen while the US wanes.
by goalieca 16y ago
Well, I don't think China is living sustainably either. I see it more likely that south america and europe strengthen while the US wanes.
- dasil003 16y agoNo country is perfect, and the US is still in great shape. But I think the basic issue that Americans are fat and entitled is a serious cultural hurdle that we need to get over. People need to put this into perspective that our global dominance and unprecedented prosperity of the last 60 years was basically served up on a platter by the worldwide industrial destruction of WWII. If we can just accept that we are not in fact smarter or better than any other country, and that sooner or later we will have to compete head on with hungrier nations like China and India, and we stop looking for answers with clever accounting and protectionist policies, or burying our heads in the sand and scapegoating illegal immigrants; if we can come to terms with all that culturally, then I think we will be able to stay in better shape than most countries in the world for the foreseeable future, but that's a big if.