Posted on 08/14/2007 3:10:52 PM PDT by Sterlis
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My guess is he is a liberal Johnny One Note. My guess is he believes the cure for all our ills is to raise taxes and allow Queen Hillary to dispense the proceeds as she feels appropriate.
I thought faith destroyed the empire. A turning away from authority and toward free will. Doing your own thing caused a setback of some 1200 years before it started paying dividends big time. Just like liberal policies today, intrinsically good but fatally ahead of it’s time.
Why that’s just silly! Ancient Rome was destroyed by internal divisions over who controlled the government, excessive spending on popular expenditures, uncontrolled immigration, debauched lifestyles, lack of respect for God & His laws, and ...........uh.....nevermnind........
Oh great fiscal know it alls. If your doom and gloom predictions are true, please explain to us how the British Govt managed to substain a “National Debt” for all most 400 years and counting?
Oh another note to fiscal hysterics. Just WHERE are those govts going to “dump” their US bonds? See they have to SELL THEM to someone.
...or they can just stop buying them.
Uh, no Rome didn’t fall from that. It fell mainly chronic political instability brought on by repeated combat between facts that damaged or destroyed a good chunck of it tax base added to an inability effectively administer and control its territory.
2 items that do not in the least apply to the good old USA.
By depending on the USA to shoulder its major military burdens for the past 100?
“Oh great fiscal know it alls. If your doom and gloom predictions are true, please explain to us how the British Govt managed to substain a “National Debt” for all most 400 years and counting?”
The Empire and American bail outs.
...by declining from a world power to part of the European Union?
Aztlan.................
LOL. I assume you were joking. There will never be a time when leftist policies produce anything except ever increasing government power ending in a bankrupt totalitarian state controlling the population with bread (welfare) and circuses (survivor).
If you weren't joking, what events do you see over the next 1,000 years that will make leftist policies effective? About the only thing I can imagine that would produce that effect would be genetic engineering that would fundamentally alter human nature.
RIGHT! Sure we should just ignore all factual reality about Rome because the facts do not validate the bubble world dogma as screamed by fringer third rate Politically Corrupted media personalities.
Too bad the real world is not the simple place the chicken littles think it is.
Whatever God does once, he does twice............old Jewish proverb........
Rome hung on as many centuries as they did, because they were blessed (if it may be called that) with enemies much less organized than themselves. The greater Roman Empire, grown too unwieldy to be governed only from Rome alone, was in the process of fracture long before the Christian religion was widely adopted in the Roman world. Byzantium was, for all practical purposes, pretty much independent of Rome from about 300 AD on, but was still largely allied with Rome.
Until Rome really needed to be defended.
>Why tht’s just silly! Ancient rome was destroyed by internal divisions over who controlled the government, excessive spending on popular expenditures, uncontrolled immigation, debauched lifestyhles, lack of respect for God and His laws, and.....uh.....nevermind....<
Very good, Red. Add unaccountable massive foreign aid with huge trade deficits on top of an expensive war, and you have the complete American pattern for self-destruct.
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