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		<title>By: Lapstrailia</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-38049</link>
		<dc:creator>Lapstrailia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Inga Nonym</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-35764</link>
		<dc:creator>Inga Nonym</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HALÄRM! Den tunga tankesmedjan CER (med många tunga namn som t ex. vår egen CB) verkar förorda &lt;a href=&quot;http://centreforeuropeanreform.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;överhuvudet för WTO som EUs president&lt;/a&gt; när Lissabon träder i kraft. De tom. utnämner WTO som &quot;opolitiskt&quot;..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HALÄRM! Den tunga tankesmedjan CER (med många tunga namn som t ex. vår egen CB) verkar förorda <a href="http://centreforeuropeanreform.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">överhuvudet för WTO som EUs president</a> när Lissabon träder i kraft. De tom. utnämner WTO som &#8220;opolitiskt&#8221;..</p>
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		<title>By: Rick</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-30542</link>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama might turn it around. But then he has to get that Rottweiler Joe &#039;Il Duce&#039; Biden off the file sharers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama might turn it around. But then he has to get that Rottweiler Joe &#8216;Il Duce&#8217; Biden off the file sharers.</p>
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		<title>By: Snart kraschar USA &#171; Utsiktsplatsen</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-16822</link>
		<dc:creator>Snart kraschar USA &#171; Utsiktsplatsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] sig i, har mer att säga. Han menar att USA kommer att gå bankrutt, vilket är helt i enlighet med Rick Falkvinges tidigare blogg &#8220;Why the US is [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] sig i, har mer att säga. Han menar att USA kommer att gå bankrutt, vilket är helt i enlighet med Rick Falkvinges tidigare blogg &#8220;Why the US is [...]</p>
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		<title>By: The state of the world economy</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-13496</link>
		<dc:creator>The state of the world economy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the dark vision of the future of America (and the present world economy) suggested by Rick Falkvinge isn&#8217;t too far [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Härdsmälta i USA - och andra vågen är i antågande&#8230; &#171; Utsiktsplatsen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Härdsmälta i USA - och andra vågen är i antågande&#8230; &#171; Utsiktsplatsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] kraschen blir denna gång. Jag vill hänvisa den intresserade läsaren till ett tidigare inlägg av Rick Falkvinge där han ger en sin syn på möjliga orsaker och verkan till varför USA är på väg att kollapsa. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] kraschen blir denna gång. Jag vill hänvisa den intresserade läsaren till ett tidigare inlägg av Rick Falkvinge där han ger en sin syn på möjliga orsaker och verkan till varför USA är på väg att kollapsa. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Money As Debt &#171; The Pheleroxian Blog</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-11113</link>
		<dc:creator>Money As Debt &#171; The Pheleroxian Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...]  28 09 2008   This is an interesting video that caught my attention several months ago. Presumably before this blog came to [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Rick Falkvinge &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Keynoting in Santa Clara this Wednesday</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rick Falkvinge &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Keynoting in Santa Clara this Wednesday</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] being my first blog post in English (or at least, in the English blog &#8212; I&#8217;ve written at least one well-noted post in English before), I&#8217;d like to make a plug for my keynote this Wednesday at the MySQL User Conference [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] being my first blog post in English (or at least, in the English blog &#8212; I&#8217;ve written at least one well-noted post in English before), I&#8217;d like to make a plug for my keynote this Wednesday at the MySQL User Conference [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-1854</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jag kan bara buga och ta av hatten Rick. En mycket bra artikel.&lt;br/&gt;Piratpartiets grundpelare är de enda vettiga enligt min åsikt jämfört med andra partier. Nu känns det som att piratrörelsen är på väg åt ett ytterst intressant och fruktansvärt viktigt håll. Vad som kommer är att mota Olle i grind på allvar. Film och musik har länge varit ett alltför starkt argument för att ändra på nationers lagar och inskränka vår frihet. Det är dags att vi tar tillbaka delar av vår frihet som gått förlorad innan varenda land har förvandlats till en polisstat.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;/Stolt pirat från dag ett och kommer så att förbli</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jag kan bara buga och ta av hatten Rick. En mycket bra artikel.<br />Piratpartiets grundpelare är de enda vettiga enligt min åsikt jämfört med andra partier. Nu känns det som att piratrörelsen är på väg åt ett ytterst intressant och fruktansvärt viktigt håll. Vad som kommer är att mota Olle i grind på allvar. Film och musik har länge varit ett alltför starkt argument för att ändra på nationers lagar och inskränka vår frihet. Det är dags att vi tar tillbaka delar av vår frihet som gått förlorad innan varenda land har förvandlats till en polisstat.</p>
<p>/Stolt pirat från dag ett och kommer så att förbli</p>
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		<title>By: sebastián</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-1851</link>
		<dc:creator>sebastián</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>here is another source of this kinf of information:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.larouchepub.com/&lt;br/&gt;and&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://fourwinds10.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>here is another source of this kinf of information:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.larouchepub.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.larouchepub.com/</a><br />and</p>
<p><a href="http://fourwinds10.com/" rel="nofollow">http://fourwinds10.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: taurus</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-1850</link>
		<dc:creator>taurus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting that Ron Paul talks about the same merging together of the interests of business and government:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a HREF=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbi-0Tg1b_g&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbi-0Tg1b_g&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting that Ron Paul talks about the same merging together of the interests of business and government:<br /><a HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbi-0Tg1b_g" REL="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbi-0Tg1b_g</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-1849</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Instead of salivating over the prospect of doom and gloom and &quot;death to the USA&quot;, you might want to consider the state of the &quot;garden&quot; in your own back yard: i.e, a 50 % tax rate, and sinking into the mire of true social and cultural death because the population of Sweden (and all of Europe for that matter) is going negative and being replaced by Muslim immigration.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sour grapes from yet another uppity socialist country whose &quot;sky is falling&quot; effete intellectual snobs can not see past the elevation of their own nose !  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You *have* perfected the art of melancholy, however, so their is some distinction and consolation in your portfolio somewhere.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Instead of salivating over the prospect of doom and gloom and &#8220;death to the USA&#8221;, you might want to consider the state of the &#8220;garden&#8221; in your own back yard: i.e, a 50 % tax rate, and sinking into the mire of true social and cultural death because the population of Sweden (and all of Europe for that matter) is going negative and being replaced by Muslim immigration.</p>
<p>Sour grapes from yet another uppity socialist country whose &#8220;sky is falling&#8221; effete intellectual snobs can not see past the elevation of their own nose !  </p>
<p>You *have* perfected the art of melancholy, however, so their is some distinction and consolation in your portfolio somewhere.</p>
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		<title>By: W. Shedd</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-1848</link>
		<dc:creator>W. Shedd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You start with a false (and decidedly convenient) definition of fascism not found in any dictionary or encyclopedia - and proceed to go downhill from there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You start with a false (and decidedly convenient) definition of fascism not found in any dictionary or encyclopedia &#8211; and proceed to go downhill from there.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://rickfalkvinge.se/2008/03/22/why-the-us-is-collapsing/#comment-1847</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great article man, fantastic work. I am a freshmen at Providence College in Rhode Island, United States. I plan on moving to Canada after I graduate before the shit really hits the fan.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article man, fantastic work. I am a freshmen at Providence College in Rhode Island, United States. I plan on moving to Canada after I graduate before the shit really hits the fan.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For those people remembering Hitler&lt;br/&gt;one should keep in mind that during the 1920&#039;s Germany was in a very bad&lt;br/&gt;depression and U.S ambassador sent a&lt;br/&gt;letter asking: WHY DO THESE NAZIS HAVE AMERICAN WEAPONS? &lt;br/&gt;After the war several influencial businessmen in america were prosecuted according to &quot;Tradeing&lt;br/&gt;with the enemy act&quot; and they sure as hell did not start during the war.&lt;br/&gt;Hitler&#039;s early years were backed up by Dollars. So 1. We have a terrible depression in Germany.&lt;br/&gt;2. There comes a guy, who say he&#039;s got the answers AND HE HAS FOREIGN CURRENCY to make his organization function more effectively than local gowernment. Whom is in financial chaos. Stamp costs 1000000 deutchmarks...&lt;br/&gt;3. American and British corporations make good business deals with Hitler administration.&lt;br/&gt;So, for all I know you Americans did not only help us to get rid of the maniac, but he would not become the man he was, without financial backing from U.S.&lt;br/&gt;One of the prosecuted persons, was&lt;br/&gt;the grandfather of current President Bush...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those people remembering Hitler<br />one should keep in mind that during the 1920&#8217;s Germany was in a very bad<br />depression and U.S ambassador sent a<br />letter asking: WHY DO THESE NAZIS HAVE AMERICAN WEAPONS? <br />After the war several influencial businessmen in america were prosecuted according to &#8220;Tradeing<br />with the enemy act&#8221; and they sure as hell did not start during the war.<br />Hitler&#8217;s early years were backed up by Dollars. So 1. We have a terrible depression in Germany.<br />2. There comes a guy, who say he&#8217;s got the answers AND HE HAS FOREIGN CURRENCY to make his organization function more effectively than local gowernment. Whom is in financial chaos. Stamp costs 1000000 deutchmarks&#8230;<br />3. American and British corporations make good business deals with Hitler administration.<br />So, for all I know you Americans did not only help us to get rid of the maniac, but he would not become the man he was, without financial backing from U.S.<br />One of the prosecuted persons, was<br />the grandfather of current President Bush&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: gerryr</title>
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		<dc:creator>gerryr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Re:&lt;br/&gt;&quot;fascism n. a merging of the interests of big corporations and government, adjoined with a systematic curtailment of civil liberties&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Expanding on that definition: We are in the Roman system under the Pontifex Maximus of the Holy Roman Empire, and as far as England and former colonies, since 1213 AD.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The Roman system is based upon all human institutions being incorporations - make believe ships at sea. And, with corporations owing sub-corporations. To &#039;govern&#039; means to administer a ship at sea.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;All bodies politic and incorporated States are sub-corporations of the Vatican. In the symbol of fascism, the fasces, the Vatican represents the controlling axe of the bundle of sticks. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The whole system is &#039;collectivist&#039;, with the &#039;ship&#039; being primary, and the human crew merely body parts - members of the ship, and they are viewed as a fictional body called &#039;a crew&#039;. That is well explained in this 5 part video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXOrJtn1h2M&amp;feature=related&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Adult humans are deceived into the slave status of a medieval ship&#039;s crewmember by the &#039;name game&#039;.&lt;br/&gt;The State takes the name from the birth registration of a child, and converts the family name into a primary name - surname. The State then claims ownership of that name as intellectual property. The child becomes an adult, and has been &#039;educated&#039; into believing that the State owned name is &#039;one and the same&#039; as him/herself. By having attached oneself to the property of another, one becomes the property of that &#039;other&#039; (legal maxim).&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;An &#039;owned&#039; adult human&#039; is a slave.   A slave has no unalienable rights, but, the slave owner has the unalienable property right of &#039;own, use, sell, gift and bequeath&#039; property.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A slave pledged to obedience and the payment of the demanded share of the slave&#039;s labour (taxes) is called a &#039;citizen, subject or freeman&#039; with granted privileges, falsely called rights. A disobedient slave is stripped of granted privileges, including &#039;due process of law&#039;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Now, read the original blog, and see where you are in this slave world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Re:<br />&#8220;fascism n. a merging of the interests of big corporations and government, adjoined with a systematic curtailment of civil liberties&#8221;</p>
<p>Expanding on that definition: We are in the Roman system under the Pontifex Maximus of the Holy Roman Empire, and as far as England and former colonies, since 1213 AD.</p>
<p>The Roman system is based upon all human institutions being incorporations &#8211; make believe ships at sea. And, with corporations owing sub-corporations. To &#8216;govern&#8217; means to administer a ship at sea.</p>
<p>All bodies politic and incorporated States are sub-corporations of the Vatican. In the symbol of fascism, the fasces, the Vatican represents the controlling axe of the bundle of sticks. </p>
<p>The whole system is &#8216;collectivist&#8217;, with the &#8217;ship&#8217; being primary, and the human crew merely body parts &#8211; members of the ship, and they are viewed as a fictional body called &#8216;a crew&#8217;. That is well explained in this 5 part video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXOrJtn1h2M&#038;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXOrJtn1h2M&#038;feature=related</a></p>
<p>Adult humans are deceived into the slave status of a medieval ship&#8217;s crewmember by the &#8216;name game&#8217;.<br />The State takes the name from the birth registration of a child, and converts the family name into a primary name &#8211; surname. The State then claims ownership of that name as intellectual property. The child becomes an adult, and has been &#8216;educated&#8217; into believing that the State owned name is &#8216;one and the same&#8217; as him/herself. By having attached oneself to the property of another, one becomes the property of that &#8216;other&#8217; (legal maxim).</p>
<p>An &#8216;owned&#8217; adult human&#8217; is a slave.   A slave has no unalienable rights, but, the slave owner has the unalienable property right of &#8216;own, use, sell, gift and bequeath&#8217; property.</p>
<p>A slave pledged to obedience and the payment of the demanded share of the slave&#8217;s labour (taxes) is called a &#8216;citizen, subject or freeman&#8217; with granted privileges, falsely called rights. A disobedient slave is stripped of granted privileges, including &#8216;due process of law&#8217;.</p>
<p>Now, read the original blog, and see where you are in this slave world.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d like to see the US evolve into a group of independent mid-sized countries.  Imagine if North America were split apart into a group of independent countries about the size of France.  The continental US could consist of maybe 8 different countries - all independent, but allied and operating under a unified international organization (like the European Union).  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It&#039;ll likely never happen - at least in that way - but it would be beautiful.  Imagine New England all as one nation, then perhaps Texas, Nevada, Oklahoma, the north central states, the midwest, the pacific northwest, California, and the SE states, etc...  It would rock indeed - rail lines throughout.  A North America that more closely resembles Europe.  (only in a video game...)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d like to see the US evolve into a group of independent mid-sized countries.  Imagine if North America were split apart into a group of independent countries about the size of France.  The continental US could consist of maybe 8 different countries &#8211; all independent, but allied and operating under a unified international organization (like the European Union).  </p>
<p>It&#8217;ll likely never happen &#8211; at least in that way &#8211; but it would be beautiful.  Imagine New England all as one nation, then perhaps Texas, Nevada, Oklahoma, the north central states, the midwest, the pacific northwest, California, and the SE states, etc&#8230;  It would rock indeed &#8211; rail lines throughout.  A North America that more closely resembles Europe.  (only in a video game&#8230;)</p>
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		<title>By: Enginerd</title>
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		<dc:creator>Enginerd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not sure where you got the $100 trillion figure for what the US is worth.  The $2.5 trillion is debt held by foreign governments, total debt is $9 trillion.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The problem is that the US consumes more than it produces by a longshot.  That is all that&#039;s needed to drive an entity bankrupt.  The GDP is $14 trillion, government budget about $1.4 trillion, estimated budget shortfall for the next 50 years or so $65 trillion.  Selling off the countries assets to pay the debt would basically be a collapse.  It might not appear so, but it would be the removal of economic infrastructure (capital) and would destroy the productive ability of the country.  In short, it wouldn&#039;t be good for us.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I don&#039;t necessarily agree with the 15 year timeframe Rick proposed, nor do I agree that a collapse is inevitable.  What is true is that if the country continues to consume more than it produces, a decline of the economy is inevitable.  The only way to rectify the situation is to reduce consumption, or increase production, or both.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not sure where you got the $100 trillion figure for what the US is worth.  The $2.5 trillion is debt held by foreign governments, total debt is $9 trillion.  </p>
<p>The problem is that the US consumes more than it produces by a longshot.  That is all that&#8217;s needed to drive an entity bankrupt.  The GDP is $14 trillion, government budget about $1.4 trillion, estimated budget shortfall for the next 50 years or so $65 trillion.  Selling off the countries assets to pay the debt would basically be a collapse.  It might not appear so, but it would be the removal of economic infrastructure (capital) and would destroy the productive ability of the country.  In short, it wouldn&#8217;t be good for us.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with the 15 year timeframe Rick proposed, nor do I agree that a collapse is inevitable.  What is true is that if the country continues to consume more than it produces, a decline of the economy is inevitable.  The only way to rectify the situation is to reduce consumption, or increase production, or both.</p>
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		<title>By: M. Simon</title>
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		<dc:creator>M. Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Suppose the USA succeeds with this:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a HREF=&quot;http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/01/wb-7-first-plasma.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WB-7 First Plasma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Cutting the cost of electricity in 1/2 or less. Then what?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Suppose you have to buy them from USA companies or become uncompetitive. Then what.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Not all USA capital is physical assets. Of course you can always steal ideas. Which puts you years behind. The Soviets stole all kinds of US technology. It didn&#039;t help them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suppose the USA succeeds with this:</p>
<p><a HREF="http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/01/wb-7-first-plasma.html" REL="nofollow">WB-7 First Plasma</a></p>
<p>Cutting the cost of electricity in 1/2 or less. Then what?</p>
<p>Suppose you have to buy them from USA companies or become uncompetitive. Then what.</p>
<p>Not all USA capital is physical assets. Of course you can always steal ideas. Which puts you years behind. The Soviets stole all kinds of US technology. It didn&#8217;t help them.</p>
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		<title>By: M. Simon</title>
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		<dc:creator>M. Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>China depends on USA consumers to prevent a revolution in China caused by poverty.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It has zero interest in destroying one of its best customers. Because if Chinese growth falters there are going to be a lot of pissed Chinamen. There is no profit in that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>China depends on USA consumers to prevent a revolution in China caused by poverty.</p>
<p>It has zero interest in destroying one of its best customers. Because if Chinese growth falters there are going to be a lot of pissed Chinamen. There is no profit in that.</p>
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