Dollar dying, gold rising, US Economy on brink?

[BarrigaS14]

It would take a lot to sink America, especially right now. Everything just sucks and everyone is trying to make it through this shit storm as best as possible. When thing do get better, then everything will right itself. When you start seeing people invading America, then you can get worried. Until then, it is just the up and downs of a global economy that is interlinked with each other. There will always be ups and downs, and there will be big ups followed by big downs.

[Fred Allen Burge]

Originally Posted by BarrigaS14

It would take a lot to sink America, especially right now.

Too big to fail? I think I've heard that somewhere before...

I don't want it to happen but I think it's part of the natural cycle of an aggressive country like ours, we've had it too easy for too long, we as a country got lazy and stopped manufacturing for one thing.

[BarrigaS14]

Originally Posted by Fred Allen Burge

Too big to fail? I think I've heard that somewhere before...

I don't want it to happen but I think it's part of the natural cycle of an aggressive country like ours, we've had it too easy for too long, we as a country got lazy and stopped manufacturing for one thing.

I never said we are too big to fail. But one hiccup is not going to bring us down. Look at the fall of other large civilizations, they took decades if not centuries to fall apart. Generally, accelerated by foreign troops coming into their country and wrecking shit up. But that was a different time and the economy that we have now, is much more global and interlocked. If we fall, we will no doubt take a few with us. Look at China, they have stalled because we have stalled.

Also, those manufacturing jobs are gone. Jon Stewart made a good point the other night. They can build a city just for building cell phones, pay the people cents on the dollar and hire thousands at a drop of the hat. We can't do that in America anymore. We need to get different types of manufacturing jobs.