Is America a declining power?

AlohaState wrote:

The federal budget went from $4.3 trillion to $4.6 trillion due to the Trump tax cuts and the economy roared with record job growth, record salaries, productivity etc. Then “surprise!” a mysterious virus appeared and the country went into tyrannical lock down mode and most people compliantly went along, without any curiosity regarding the origins of the virus, the funding or how and why it escaped a bio weapons lab.

Then, in the name of recovery, Congress allocated $7 trillion for covid relief, of which we have spent $5.8 trillion, more than the ENTIRE FEDERAL BUDGET! Most people don’t know how extraordinary this amount is because they don’t understand how much a trillion dollars really is. For perspective, the 20 year Iraq war cost $2 trillion, including supporting all our bases abroad and weapons manufacturing. $5.8 trillion for covid was enough money to make every ruined business owner whole. But it did not. Businesses are still boarded up. Restaurants are shuttered.

Nobody questions our involvement with Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, but a place the Bidens and Clintons have a lot of entanglements.

Now the federal budget is up to a shocking $6.8 trillion, excluding off the books emergency funding, and the Democrats are about to print up another $700 billion for their climate change friends.

The DC elites are looting the country the way Russian oligarchs looted their country, using the exact same brainwashing tools.

So yes, the US economy is being destroyed before our very eyes.

AlohaState wrote:

The federal budget went from $4.3 trillion to $4.6 trillion due to the Trump tax cuts and the economy roared with record job growth, record salaries, productivity etc. Then “surprise!” a mysterious virus appeared and the country went into tyrannical lock down mode and most people compliantly went along, without any curiosity regarding the origins of the virus, the funding or how and why it escaped a bio weapons lab.

Then, in the name of recovery, Congress allocated $7 trillion for covid relief, of which we have spent $5.8 trillion, more than the ENTIRE FEDERAL BUDGET! Most people don’t know how extraordinary this amount is because they don’t understand how much a trillion dollars really is. For perspective, the 20 year Iraq war cost $2 trillion, including supporting all our bases abroad and weapons manufacturing. $5.8 trillion for covid was enough money to make every ruined business owner whole. But it did not. Businesses are still boarded up. Restaurants are shuttered.

Nobody questions our involvement with Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, but a place the Bidens and Clintons have a lot of entanglements.

Now the federal budget is up to a shocking $6.8 trillion, excluding off the books emergency funding, and the Democrats are about to print up another $700 billion for their climate change friends.

The DC elites are looting the country the way Russian oligarchs looted their country, using the exact same brainwashing tools.

So yes, the US economy is being destroyed before our very eyes.

AlohaState wrote:

The federal budget went from $4.3 trillion to $4.6 trillion due to the Trump tax cuts and the economy roared with record job growth, record salaries, productivity etc. Then “surprise!” a mysterious virus appeared and the country went into tyrannical lock down mode and most people compliantly went along, without any curiosity regarding the origins of the virus, the funding or how and why it escaped a bio weapons lab.

Then, in the name of recovery, Congress allocated $7 trillion for covid relief, of which we have spent $5.8 trillion, more than the ENTIRE FEDERAL BUDGET! Most people don’t know how extraordinary this amount is because they don’t understand how much a trillion dollars really is. For perspective, the 20 year Iraq war cost $2 trillion, including supporting all our bases abroad and weapons manufacturing. $5.8 trillion for covid was enough money to make every ruined business owner whole. But it did not. Businesses are still boarded up. Restaurants are shuttered.

Nobody questions our involvement with Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, but a place the Bidens and Clintons have a lot of entanglements.

Now the federal budget is up to a shocking $6.8 trillion, excluding off the books emergency funding, and the Democrats are about to print up another $700 billion for their climate change friends.

The DC elites are looting the country the way Russian oligarchs looted their country, using the exact same brainwashing tools.

So yes, the US economy is being destroyed before our very eyes.

AlohaState wrote:

The federal budget went from $4.3 trillion to $4.6 trillion due to the Trump tax cuts and the economy roared with record job growth, record salaries, productivity etc. Then “surprise!” a mysterious virus appeared and the country went into tyrannical lock down mode and most people compliantly went along, without any curiosity regarding the origins of the virus, the funding or how and why it escaped a bio weapons lab.

Then, in the name of recovery, Congress allocated $7 trillion for covid relief, of which we have spent $5.8 trillion, more than the ENTIRE FEDERAL BUDGET! Most people don’t know how extraordinary this amount is because they don’t understand how much a trillion dollars really is. For perspective, the 20 year Iraq war cost $2 trillion, including supporting all our bases abroad and weapons manufacturing. $5.8 trillion for covid was enough money to make every ruined business owner whole. But it did not. Businesses are still boarded up. Restaurants are shuttered.

Nobody questions our involvement with Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, but a place the Bidens and Clintons have a lot of entanglements.

Now the federal budget is up to a shocking $6.8 trillion, excluding off the books emergency funding, and the Democrats are about to print up another $700 billion for their climate change friends.

The DC elites are looting the country the way Russian oligarchs looted their country, using the exact same brainwashing tools.

So yes, the US economy is being destroyed before our very eyes.

agip wrote:

The world will be bipolar USA and China, and we'll see. It should work out ok since China has a massive population shrink problem, plus it is not making any friends around the world. The question you always have to ask is 'who are a nation's allies?' China doesn't really have any allies. None. North Korea sometimes.

Whereas the USA has as allies all the freest, richest, best nations on earth. So that's good.

The worry about the US is its politics...Clearly right wing politics are ripping the nation apart, as right wingers attacked Congress and have replaced muslims as the main terrorists active in North America.

And our lack of population growth and anti-immigrant swing is suicidal.

As Hardloper points out, we have a lot of natural protection and benefits. If we are defeated, it will be at our own hand.

Abe Lincoln had it right:

"All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."