I thought I would bring this back into the picture reference my very first post in this thread. For those that cannot remember, I will jog the memory,

Quote Originally Posted by IAN 2411 View Post
I don’t know a lot about the History of the “United States and this thread is a good lesson I suppose. I think just about everyone on the planet knows about the slavery issues, but denu brought up the point that another side of the Civil war was to keep the states together.

The Roman Empire lasted 500 years [Mostly taken by stealth] [Squandered its wealth.]

The British Empire lasted about the same and by all accounts it was even bigger. [Mostly taken by stealth] [Squandered its wealth and in debt once more]

The USSR lasted 50 years and a bit. [Taken by stealth] [Squandered its wealth on defence in case of a war with the west, due to its oil has gone from rags to riches once more as a single state.]

The European Union is in trouble and there is the fear that now because of its size it is near breaking point. [Throwing its wealth away trying to keep member countries heads above water, and now its bank is almost closed for business] [Picked clean.]

The USA, [Partly taken by Stealth], from the date of the declaration of independence has lasted so far 235 years, but how much longer? [Almost 60% of America’s national debt is owned by the Chinese.]

Now taking that one of the main causes of the break up and downfall of Roman Empire, British Empire and the USSR and possibly the European Union was that it was too hard and expensive to police and govern.

Do you think that all that fighting between the North and South was worth the trouble; because if history repeats itself once more there could be disintegration of the USA from the Fed Government via the ballet box?

It is no good sitting back and saying it will never happen, because who would have thought that all this fighting for freedom and democracy in the middle east would ever take place in our lifetime. They are young people deciding the way they want their countries run. On a comparative scale each one of the states in the USA are bigger than most European Countries.
What’s this about you might be asking? Well I am not knocking the States or trying to pull it down, but there is a lot of unrest in the states now whether you wish to admit it or not. How do I know living in England? I have 18 friends on YIM dotted all over the USA and not one of them is very happy with Mr Obama, because during his administration he has pushed the national debt up by 4 Trillion.

In Europe the countries are falling like flies, and for all those that think that Greece will honour its commitment to the European banks. All that I can say is they have a lot more faith in them than a high percentage of the UK population.

The European banks are running dry, and the reason being is that Europe is too big to financially police. If Europe falls and it is looking very bleak at the moment, then the UK will bleed but not as hard as the rest of the world. The UK has the Commonwealth countries to fall back on, that we never left, something a old imperial dinosaur like me is happy about. The UK austerity is working as long as we stick to it and we have already been where Europe will go if it falls.

I will ask again, is The USA to hard and almost impossible to financially police? No one can borrow from the banks forever. While keeping a federal government and the USA, would it not be better to give the individual states independence on certain issues of financing themselves? The point being that a budget for the biggest state is too hard for the smaller. Neither is it very good for the moral to cream off one state to finance ten others.

Be well Ian 2411