Reply #44: Larger population in the US... [View All]

[Bigmack]

no manufacturing base, peak oil, climate change, crushing debt, horrible balance of payments.... and more like this. I think we're much worse off. That's the long version.

Short version... We had oil, then.

It's gonna take oil to switch to alternatives, since it takes oil to make new technology.

I'm not saying we can't do it, but I think it's going to be a tougher slog.

A country that owes as much as we do and still spends a Trillion bucks a year on the military (includes black ops and R&D and nuke stuff) is really hurtin'.