There isn't going to be a collapse per se, just a gradual decrease in quality of life until the various regions of the U.S. resemble Europe, then Mexico, then China, and on down.
The U.S. would rebound immediately if it dumped Social Security and all the the other subsidies and entitlements killing us with debt and taxes, but I'll never bet on the lazy, greedy fools of America doing that.
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02/26/2010 12:56:46 PM PST by
Anti-Utopian
("Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds I' th' cage." -King Lear [V,iii,6-8])