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11/12/2017 4:33:03 AM
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Is America "great" ?

Yes

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No

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Why or why not?

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  • We are a great nation, but we are also a nation in decline. In part because other nations are recovering from the catastrophes what were the World War II and The Cold War, and are closing the gap. In part because we arrogantly over-extended the reach of our true power in other parts of the world...and are running up the kind of debt that eventually did in the British Empire. Lastly----like the Roman Empire during its decline----we've stopped acting like a nation, and have behave like a collection of individuals. More invested in domestic power struggles while ignoring what happening to the nation as a whole. So our wealthy loot the nation of its riches, while demanding tax cuts that starve the nation of the public resources it needs. While the middle-class and working-class are lost in ethnic and cultural squabbles over an ever smaller collection of crumbs that fall from the table of the top 0.1% Like the Roman Empire, this will eventually end us as a world power. Whether it will happen in my lifetime? Don't know. But until we stop this internecine fighting and strip mining the nation of its wealth for private game....our fall is inevitable. Not if....just when...and how far.

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