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**molaunterbizone** · 01-18-2006, 02:37 AM

MiB In the years leading up to WWII the US foriegn policy was isolationism. The United States tried to stay out of WWI and it tried to stay out of WWII. When it came our of WWII the US decided that it had to be more involved in foriegn affairs.

Thats why we took over the Phillipines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba etc and have set about expanding our borders since the inception of the country?

Give me a break. We wanted to keep out of European affairs, because people knew even way back then that the place was hardly worth a damn.

Learn some history before spouting off about it.

If you look at history – EVERY empire has always fallen.

China, India, Russia, the USA, Britain (though it isn't as powerful as it used to be,) France...well, looks like your spouting "every mepire has always fallen" has been trounced.

The other problem is that these empires have fallen at a distinct economic point. They tend to fall when the top 10 percent of the population holds 90 percent of the wealth. I haven't been able to confirm the following statistic, but I have heard from reliable people that the US is currently at 90 percent of the wealth in the top 7 percent of the people which would indicate that the economic realities should be causing a collaps. Luckily for the US, the middle class is STILL more comfortable than any other middle class throughout history and can hold the US up. How much longer can this happen if the gap between the rich and the poor keeps expanding, and the middle class keeps diminishing?

I'd ask you where you pulled that ridiculous statistic of empires falling when 10% own 90% of the wealth, but I have no doubt that the place is distasteful and dirty.

01-18-2006, 02:37 AM	#12
molaunterbizone Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 469 Senior Member	MiB In the years leading up to WWII the US foriegn policy was isolationism. The United States tried to stay out of WWI and it tried to stay out of WWII. When it came our of WWII the US decided that it had to be more involved in foriegn affairs. Thats why we took over the Phillipines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba etc and have set about expanding our borders since the inception of the country? Give me a break. We wanted to keep out of European affairs, because people knew even way back then that the place was hardly worth a damn. Learn some history before spouting off about it. If you look at history – EVERY empire has always fallen. China, India, Russia, the USA, Britain (though it isn't as powerful as it used to be,) France...well, looks like your spouting "every mepire has always fallen" has been trounced. The other problem is that these empires have fallen at a distinct economic point. They tend to fall when the top 10 percent of the population holds 90 percent of the wealth. I haven't been able to confirm the following statistic, but I have heard from reliable people that the US is currently at 90 percent of the wealth in the top 7 percent of the people which would indicate that the economic realities should be causing a collaps. Luckily for the US, the middle class is STILL more comfortable than any other middle class throughout history and can hold the US up. How much longer can this happen if the gap between the rich and the poor keeps expanding, and the middle class keeps diminishing? I'd ask you where you pulled that ridiculous statistic of empires falling when 10% own 90% of the wealth, but I have no doubt that the place is distasteful and dirty.
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