The US in Decline

Thought that this was interesting perspective. 
Charts the major powers and their % contribution to world GDP,
This will mark the year that China overtakes the USA, who (because of WWI, and playing the sidelines so long) has been the major player for the last 100 ish years. 

It is scary to think of a world dominated by Chinese interests.  They seem like the worst that the world has to offer, authoritarian communism with crony capitalism to boot.  The world my daughter is going to grow up knowing is going to be vastly different.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-06/its-official-finally-us-no-longer-worlds-1-economy

The  United States is no longer the worlds # 1 economy ..........


Way to go, Obama!     

Rosetta Stone might make a killing on selling the Chinese language edition.  

You guys must not have read Don's thread about how AWESOME everything is.

Read it twice, but humor is very temporary solace for the trouble we are in as a nation.

The real story here is,,that the Chinese have become more capitalistic..

China is less regulated and freer whereas the United States is becoming more and more regulated and controlled...

America is losing it's FREEEEEDDDDDDDOMMM.

While China is gaining theirs..

China is building a new coal power plant every week. The US is forcing coal power plants to close..The new EPA regulations when they go into effect will increase the cost of everything in the US ....

Obama last month inked a deal with China to limit carbon emissions ..so the Chinese are sticking it to us with Obama's UN Climate Change deal.. another deal that was made without Congressional approval....More executive overreach from President Barack Hussein Obama.

 The U.S. commits to cutting carbon emissions......... China agrees to nothing more than capping its emissions at 2030 levels. ...lol

The world continues to punk our dear leader at every turn. What's he do? Considering sanctions against Israel. 

nostradamus predicted the yellow race would rule the earth

I think that it is somewhat ironic that we became a world superpower by innovation and grit of the industrial revolution and staying out of WWI til the last minute. Those two things defined our success. 

Now we will be undone by relying on foreign production and unending wars created by the vary entangling alliances that our founders warned of. 

Detox - Rolling Stone - a pack of matches...

Track them down and deport them?? What??
Think a bit harder.

Stopped reading after that.

You're always confused. 

If your only concept of what can be done is "track everyone down and deport them", please stop posting.

Ever heard of e-verify?


Curious how you skipped right over billy bob though. He was awesome.

Make it a 1 million dollar fine or 10 years in prison for employing an undocumented person.

Problem solved.

United States still has bigger GDP than China under exchange rate measure preferred by economists.  Also U.S. still has higher average income. 

 Zerohedge article is about China's purchasing power and not GDP. Their chart shows rise and fall of recent empires and not a comparison of countries GDP.  Article blames U.S. decline on high debt, high taxes, bad monetary policy, global intimidation, wars and fearful Americans.

It is about influence and driving the global economy.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-economy-still-bigger-than-chinas-but-maybe-not-as-crucial-2014-12-04

Dude, I get it. 

You are a non-partisan independent. 

You don't have to repeat it 3 times in a post

What is the cost to deport them? Who foots the bill? What guarantee is there that they don't come back? Build a fence? What's the cost? Put them in prison? What's the cost? Shoot them? What's the cost to keep them? You are always the one with the answers , what should we do? I'll be waiting for all your answers.

Of course you give him leeway, he is a republican as you are . Just proves you are bias.