World Powers in 2030? a shift in the balance of power continues

g2mil.com ^ | Summer 2005 | Carlton Meyer

[freedomfiter2]

If that happens, let's hope they leave their statism behind.

They wouldn't. This part of PA is attracting a lot of newcomers from NJ and "the city" and for the most part they just bring the rot with them.

[tjwmason]

B) The European Union includes the UK.

That was one of the better parts of the article in my opinion. Whilst we are currently part of the E.U., it cannot be denied that our path has been divergent from the mainstream E.U. for a number of years, and is becoming more so even under Blair's grotesquely pro-European misrule.

I can see two futures for the E.U., the first is with looser ties than at present such that it becomes meaningless to combine them as a single entity; the second is without the U.K. The British people are realising more and more that the E.U. is not just a nice trading bloc which we joined in 1973, and they are realising that our best interests lie trading right across the world not just with the pile of sickmen which now comprise the continent.

[Non-Sequitur]

Some people just cannot get around the idea that the deficit will shrink by decreasing federal spending, not taxing at a higher rate.

But the Republican party of today, and especially this Republican president, show absolutely no interest in even slowing the growth in government spending never mind actually shrinking it.

[KevinDavis]

Same crap I heard in the 80's where Japan and West Germany was going to be the next economic powerhouse..

[Alberta's Child]

While the United States is the clear superpower today, the European Union surpasses the USA in population, GDP, and industrial output.

The 1990s will stand as a defining period in US/European economic relations. If you had predicted even as recently as the late 1980s that German auto giants like BMW and Mercedes-Benz would be opening new manufacturing facilities in the United States, people would have thought you were crazy.

The author's comments about the European Union and the United States may be technically correct, but only because he's comparing one nation (the U.S.) to a conglomeration of many nations. For this comparison to be valid, the author should include Canada and Mexico with the United States and see how they compare to the EU.

[mdmathis6]

The Japanese will probably continue to make advances in Robotics...that will solve the labor problems they'll have in the future!

[EQAndyBuzz]

Funny, I seem to be the only one that believes that the reason we are up to our eyeballs in debt is because Bush and congress out liberaled the liberals. This won them reelection and will have to continue through 2006 so we can get the 60 seats in the senate.

Fact is, the libs have nothing because we pulled the rug out from under them. Medicare, education and other social programs, the libs went along with and are now complaining. They are seen as whiners and I believe this is the Rovian strategery we all loved during the last election cycle.

When we have the 60 votes, everything will be cut to lower the deficit. They know how much they need to reduce the deficit. Our victory strategy in the ME will put a couple of hundred bil back in the budget. Add it with the cuts in crap programs and we will be ok.

[Rick.Donaldson]

catch this:

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Ok, those paragraphs are from the main page. Seems to me that this is a bunch of leftist crap. If you go on and read some of the other stuff, all this guy is doing is spouting the words "neocon" a lot. You know, I don't get this "neocon" crap. Sounds like a made up word, and it's being used as an INSULT by the left.

[Destro]

Yes, author is indeed old school Conservative - I prefer the old school to the new school I find.

[Destro]

[The EU] simply not a single economic entity.

In a way true - but the sngle currency does bring it along in that direction.

[Destro]

The author's speculation of future superpowers is not a list based on military prowess alone - he is factoring in economies and population as well.

[reagan_fanatic]

World Powers in 2030?
#1 China
#2 European Union
#3 Japan
#4 United States (bankrupt)

I stopped there. What garbage.

[Destro]

It is the only straw we can grab at that once the Repubs gain control at 60 they will become fiscal conservatives.

[Destro]

The author is not a liberal - leans toward paleocon.

[Destro]

Of course it's garbage - we can always take on another long term mortgage and refinance our debt.

[wardaddy]

from a cultural and voting (they vote left historically)perspective it matters....at least to me.

[jveritas]

And we spend over 400 billion dollar a year on the military which larger than EU, China, Japan, Russia, India, and many other countries combined.

That is one more additional reason we are the only superpower in the world.

[jveritas]

And here I thought it was a futile attempt at stand up comedy.

This too is the goal of this dumb article :)

[hinckley buzzard]

Just a couple decades ago Brazil was seen as becoming a superpower by now. Things happen

Ah yes..."Brazil--Sleeping Giant on our Doorstep!"

Reader's Digest, circa 1958.