Why list climate change? It's not caused solely by the US. Its consequences and the corrupt political sphere is ubiquitous globally.
Why list climate change? It's not caused solely by the US. Its consequences and the corrupt political sphere is ubiquitous globally.
Just gonna take three things on your list:
20 trillion in Debt... - This will only be a problem if the economy stops growing. Ideally you want your government debt to GDP under 80% (some economists differ) but you don't start having real issues until Debt to GDP exceeds 125%. We are now at ~110%. It is not ideal, but we aren't about to collapse either. Japan has a government debt to GDP of ~250% and nearly no economic growth for some time now.
College/Outsources/AI leading to lay offs - Technological innovation both destroys and creates in an economy. It destroys old patterns while creating new ones. The issue is education. Prior to 1980-90 most people could plan on getting a job where there was some form of on the job training that would prepare you for the job itself as long as you had basic skills. This is no longer the case. Employers expect the applicants to come fully developed to work on the job with little to no investment into the employee. Additionally the skill sets in demand now are more technical rather than social as in past generations. People are now in the process of self-selecting educational paths, mainly away from the traditional four year college degree, to gain technical skills however time will tell if this will lead to a stable career path or if people will constantly have to relearn skill sets as technological innovation eliminates career paths while creating new ones.
Corrupt Political Sphere - Corruption in politics is nothing new. The issue is that we have elevated politicians, both on the right and the left, as "saviors" while abdicating our role in the system as thoughtful citizens. We would rather vote the "candidate I can relate to" into office rather than electing the most effective person into office. Again though this is nothing new. All through history mankind has had to deal with ineffective leaders. The only difference now is that social media allows for us to review all the nastiness of politics, in full glory, and so now we deal with disillusionment because our "saviors" are shown to be just like us; corrupt and greedy people, looking for accolades and self-promotion.
Welcome to the real world: its been like this for Centuries.
The Right isn't universally bad. The Left isn't universally good. The Left isn't universally bad. The Right isn't universally good. Legal doesn't equal moral. Moral doesn't equal legal. Illegal doesn't equal immoral. Immoral doesn't equal illegal.
Have a nice day.
Half the knuckle draggers on the internet still think the US has a $10 trillion GDP like it's 2000 rather than nearing $20 trillion.
The US should tax more and cut spending on entitlements to get its books into better shape, but it's long term balance sheet outlook is good. Even with these irresponsible tax cuts, which as a matter of principle should not be passed.
Most of the US debt is privately owned by US citizens who make money from it which in turn gets taxed which goes straight back to the government.
just like Brexit, everything is negociatiable.
but yeah, the supreme court has ruled that secession from the union being unconstitutional, so the US would be within its right to send the army to quell the rebellion. California has no army to speak of. Beside, i'm pretty sure californian resident sees themselves as americans.
It was purely hypothetical, i don't think california will secede from the union, unless the US government collapse somehow.
As of right now the US is in no danger of "collapsing." The world needs the US more than the US needs the world.
If the US were to collapse in any time within the next 100 years, it would be after every other country.
Someone does not understand what 20 trillion dollars in debt actually represents.
The largest debt is to American citizens and U.S. entities — more than $14 trillion. That figure is made up of securities like Treasury bills, notes, bonds and savings bonds.
Those are due 1-3-5-10-20-30-50 years out.
a 300k loan sounds crazy when you are making 50k a year. that's 600% of your personal "GDP". But that does not stop the bank from loaning to you. lol
The only real problem i see on your list is how pay has stagnated. this is going to eventually catch up and drop this countries economy like a brick.
What ultimately makes America great is our ability to attract the best and brightest from around the world to contribute to our society, which as the likes of Skroe will eagerly point out, has the convenient side effect of draining all the talent from our biggest rivals like China and Russia, leaving them without the brainpower to support the masses of uneducated schmucks. However, there is also the problem of all the uneducated schmucks in our country, who didn't have to earn a pass into the US but rather were born into a vast array of privileges and entitlements that they believe to be their God-given inheritance and not to be shared with any dirty foreigners, and as this group becomes less and less relevant they will continue to further agitate and cause new problems.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
Nope. Most of the debt the government owes is to its citizens. Japan hasn't been a controlling interest in the American economy since their own caved in and China buying out our economy is a boogeyman spread by talking heads with a vested interest in keeping you scared.
America will collapse someday. Even Rome fell in due time. But it's not going to happen any time soon. That's a fantasy pushed by conservatives with an apocalypse fetish and politicians who just want to create self-fulfilling prophecies in their mad dash to privatize everything to enrich themselves by outright lying to the populace the way Betsy DeVos did to destroy Detroit's public education system while having her hands in private education companies. It's a fantasy popularized by paranoid schizophrenics who think they'll be the glorious saviors of American ideals in a civil war that will never happen and who think their little military-fetish LARP party will be able to take on the US military (sustained artillery shelling says hello, to say nothing of drone strikes and simply carpet-bombing their cute little forts).
Be seeing you guys on Bloodsail Buccaneers NA!
Users with <20 posts and ignored shitposters are automatically invisible. Find out how to do that here and help clean up MMO-OT!
PSA: Being a volunteer is no excuse to make a shite job of it.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.