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Ah, some conservatives are just a ball of fun.
Rome fell because of the military costs of maintaining its empire. Most great empires fall due to out of control defense spending.
within a couple of years the interest payments on that debt will replace defense spending as the largest outlay, the number one budget item.
You need to check your facts. Defense accounts for only 18% of the budget. Take a gander at social welfare transfers if you want to see where the largest outlays are found.
The only undamaged infrastructure after the war. We got to provide the materials to rebuild after the war.
Plenty of jobs. They in turn spend the money. Created more jobs. We have been living off that kick start since.
Without a strong middle class we are done as a country. Thats the danger for us. If the income inequality keeps whacking the middle class it will lead to slow decline but an ending that works out well for no one.
Inequality doesn't necessarily precipitate collapse.
Rome fell due to Barbarian Invasions. We're falling for a similar reason - we're importing massive amounts of Third World people. You can't be a First World society, never mind the Leader of the Free World, if your society is characterized as Third World.
It's people who make a society. If this wasn't so, then we could either impose or actively promote that all Third World countries adopt the US Constitution and thereby eradicate their Third World status.
This could have been written (and basically was) in 1845. Also in 1890. Also in 1910. Also in 1921....etc.
The similarity here is that the people who made this argument have been wrong for about 200 years. And still aren't learning.
You're wrong for a number of reasons. The primary reasons are that the social science data shows that there are vast gulfs in various metrics even into the 4th generation and this didn't occur with past immigration waves.
Well we may not be an empire but we do have a far ranging military presence that is costing us billions each year...Rome fell because of the military costs of maintaining its empire. Most great empires fall due to out of control defense spending.
That was the point though. Huge empires are extremely expensive to defend and invariably they collapse because of that. Rome simply did not have the resources to maintain the level of military needed to defend their empire indefinitely.