I am sort of wondering what city/state the OP is from? Must be like California or Nevada.
I am sort of wondering what city/state the OP is from? Must be like California or Nevada.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
I don't think that it's in the verge of an economic collapse, but it's losing it's position as the most powerful economy quite fast.
If the warfare spending madness won't stop anytime soon, yes. The countries economy will collapse..
What that madness looks like...
Check here: http://www.iiss.org/publications/mil...ce-statistics/
More charts: http://www.globalfirepower.com/
Last edited by Wildtree; 2012-08-20 at 02:47 PM.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Well i think we can all see why you went for a job at Mcd's from reading this post,not the brightest light bulb in the house are ya lol
Latest numbers show unemployment as going up slightly. its been over 8% for 3 years..and the effective number is probably double that. *Going off the top of my head so the numbers might be a tad off, but my recollection is that the last job numbers posted less than a month ago was that they are up.
Facts are facts. If someone's personal definition of unemployment going down means ~5% or more, then I suppose they could feel as if nothing has changed. It's in recovery, however slow that recovery may be chugging along.
And as far as the OP is concerned, if a McDonalds is actually requiring a bachelor's degree for consideration, I'd say you could chalk that up to store failure rather than economic failure.
Last edited by Badpaladin; 2012-08-20 at 02:48 PM.
This is a rare circumstance perhaps based on your region. There are plenty of jobs. Every friend and relative I know who desires to work is currently working. Jobs are out there in large numbers. I've had plenty of jobs during this "recession." I could quit my current job and find another by tomorrow. Perhaps where I live is an anomaly but I don't see this "McDonalds requires a bachelors degree" situation you are going on about.
Last edited by Northy; 2012-08-20 at 02:47 PM.
I doubt the US will truly ever collapse it is one of the worlds leaders and the collapse of the US damages every economy tremendously. They wouldn't allow us to collapse, the countries whose economy depends on ours anyway. If we go, Canada would have a few problems considering we are their number 1 customers and most of their import and export business comes from us.
Last edited by Themius; 2012-08-20 at 02:57 PM.
Unfortunately the military spending bit is never going to go away, at least not until the older group of Republicans (and some Democrats) retires and is replaced by younger politicians who realize it's a huge waste. Aside from being a sacred cow, there are simply too many rich people (as a result of our military budget) who have their hands in politics to ensure they don't decrease their business or profitability.
We've also got plenty of other problems that could be more easily addressed right now.
The defense spending of the US is completely backwards in economical therms.
When you have the strongest economy, you can afford to spend less % of GDP for defense and still have the biggest military budget.
With $14.4 trillion GDP, you could spend 2% of GDP for defense ($288 billion) and still have a bigger military budget in the world. 2% of GDP for defense ($288 billion) means double the defense budget of China ($144 billion) and 4 times the defense budget of Russia ($71 billion).
Last edited by haxartus; 2012-08-20 at 03:12 PM.
The US has plenty of money
The question is who has it
im sorry but taxes need to rise i come from a country of high taxation (i live in the US now) so im used to that shit
You guys have had it too easy tax wise basically the waiter is coming and its now time to pay the bill your parents gave you
2 wars low taxes etc its gonna be a hard pill to swallow
but im a socialist so i dont give a shit payin as long as my money goes to those who need it and not those who dont1!!!!
>Country has a larger debt than the actual amount of money in the world
> People defend their government
Thats why people believe negative stereotypes about the US.
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Taxing isn't going to pay a 11 TRILLION USD fucking debt
It wont but it sure will bring it down
but we all know that decrease spending is what will decrease the budget
but the question is what do you cut in spending?
Last edited by yetgdhfgh; 2012-08-20 at 03:29 PM.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but from what I gather, the peaks in the dept levels (WW1 and WW2) seems logical, warfare is expensive. The growth after these wars you talk about might have something to do with the fact that the US competitors (Germany, Japan) were bombed and had to rebuild, leaving an open market for the US. This isn't the case today now that they have both rebuilt, and offer same or better stuff at same or lower prices. I suppose that's the reason for the steady climb in the US dept since the 80's (or thereabouts).
Though as I said, I'm not an expert on the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar..._United_States
Having your military budget increase by 3% per year when your debt is larger than the entire world's gdp is a good start.
Or ending the "war of drugs" or the "put pot heads in jail for 15 years"
Not privatising education so your workforce is about as intelligent as Mongolia's
Getting WAY stricter laws on who is allowed to become a politician and preventing the uneducated people who know nothing more than "derp hes christian" from voting.