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America As We've Known It Is Finished
On Nov 30, 11:51 am, phil scott > wrote:
> On Nov 29, 6:59 pm, "Econotron" > wrote:
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> > "greg3347" > wrote in message
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> ...> On Nov 29, 12:42 pm, WakeUp Call > wrote:
> > >> America's Day Of
> > >> Reckoning Is At Hand
> > >> By Paul Craig Roberts
> > >> 11-27-7
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> > >>http://rense.com/general79/reck.htm
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> > [snip]
> > This one way to look at it ...
> > It may well be that America "as we know it" is finished, but so is Europe,
> > China, Russia, and many other countries. The World has changed greately in
> > the last quarter of a century. Is it possible for America to stay the same?
> > I do not think so, and see the part of the current problems in people's
> > inability to fully recognize that fact.
> > e.
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> a russian economist, Kondratiev sometimes spelled with an f,
> kondratief.. has written extensively on economic cycles...and more
> importanly on national life cycles. nations live... then die. 260
> years is a real close life span.. 5 generations. his anlaysis goes to
> human nature drivers... we get lazy and corrupt at 5
> generations...then collapse.
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> China is coming onto its next peak...that will last in the peak phase
> for about 40 years...then fade. The US is headed into its first
> collapse phase, after ending its peak about 10 years ago (we have been
> living on borrowed money).... the collapse phase lasts a generation
> at least, usually 2.. ramp up 1, and then another peak.
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> russia is still going through its collapse phase, with local
> exceptions...it will rise again next generation most likely.
That all sounds pretty reasonable.
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> Phil Scott
--Bryan http://www.TheBonobos.com/thesongs.html
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