How do you think America will be in 2018?

[Pixel]

Is this the topic I go to for radical over-the-top fairytale opinions of what the nation will be like in five years?

I put anyone who seriously believe China will conquer America in the same league I put those who think Japan is some high-tech futuristic world.

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[Fredulus]

Is this the topic I go to for radical over-the-top fairytale opinions of what the nation will be like in five years?

yup lol
they're all totally bonkers
it's worse than the whole thing with bisjac about ww3 happening before 2013

[sir dooble]

Well, if America declared bankrupcey, China would cancel their exports anyways. You can't sell to a country with no money

The point is still more on the lines of debt.

As a person in the UK, let's pretend I take out a loan fo £10,000 from a bank.
I spend the money (presumably hoping to earn it back and more) and I no longer have it. The bank wants it back (and with whatever interest).
I declare bankruptcy.
The UK courts take me to court and I go through a long thing where they brown townyse my expenditures and all that, and they decide I'm eligible for bankruptcy.
They quash all my debts owed to the bank. The bank, working under UK law, can no longer demand money from me. There are restrictions on me for some time, but I don't owe money to the bank.

In international terms, how does this work?
Who gets to say that I've gone bankrupt, and by what jurisdiction can I stop the internationals I owe money to from still claiming it?
Why would a foreign entity not want their money back?
And theoretically, what stops a country from just saying "Screw you, you're not getting another penny?"

[Plexious]

America is not a country. There is the United States of America and North America.

I think there will be no jobs and major debt because of the lazy forgets on welfare and disability and the handicaps managing our money. Most people don't qualify for jobs because they struggled through high school or didn't go to college. If you didn't graduate high school you are either A) Dumb or B) Lazy and should be out on the streets, not taking money from the government or reproducing. You only need a 2.5 GPA and 95% attendance to qualify for the A+ program where I am. USA is the only country that rewards people for being dumb or lazy. Welfare is a loving joke and our government needs to quit spending trillions of dollars on stuff we don't need.

3 part plan is this
1) Don't reward the dumb or lazy.
2) Cut spending everywhere, end any programs that don't return profit.
3) Quit getting involved in foreign affairs. If it doesn't involve us, don't bother.

[Pixel]

What people dont know is that for the past few decades Russia has been working on genetically engineered bears with the ability to swim across the ocean at speeds three times that of a Boeing 747. They are expected to be perfected within the next two years, at which point the Russian army will ride their bears onto our borders and slowly conquer the US.

This will be a crippling blow to democracy everywhere, and countries in the Middle East and Africa will revert back to their old systems of dictatorships or monarchies. They will aid Russia in reconquering the Baltic states, eventually moving on to Scandinavia. Mass panic will occur within Europe, crippling the Euro and toppling the European Union. Russia will ride into battle, and within the course of a year or two will have conquered the world.

Suddenly the sky will turn dark, and poisonous spiders will fall from the skies. Kangaroos are disemboweling head military and political officials, and drop bears are eating children alive. Julia Gillard throws another shrimp on the barbie, she is the ultimate ruler of the world. Long live Australia.

Thats where we'll be 2018.

[Brickarms]

America is not a country. There is the United States of America and North America.

I think there will be no jobs and major debt because of the lazy forgets on welfare and disability and the handicaps managing our money. Most people don't qualify for jobs because they struggled through high school or didn't go to college. If you didn't graduate high school you are either A) Dumb or B) Lazy and should be out on the streets, not taking money from the government or reproducing. You only need a 2.5 GPA and 95% attendance to qualify for the A+ program where I am. USA is the only country that rewards people for being dumb or lazy. Welfare is a loving joke and our government needs to quit spending trillions of dollars on stuff we don't need.

3 part plan is this
1) Don't reward the dumb or lazy.
2) Cut spending everywhere, end any programs that don't return profit.
3) Quit getting involved in foreign affairs. If it doesn't involve us, don't bother.

exactly

[sir dooble]

USA is the only country that rewards people for being dumb or lazy.

Sadly not true.

Exact same thing happens in the UK, and likely other Commonwealth countries and European nations.

A good piece of advice for girls in the UK. Get yourself pregnant and have a baby!
You're now entitled to free housing and benefits!
Have additional children to earn more money!
Be sneaky and let your boyfriend live with you! He should be out earning his own wage, but who's really going to know?!

[Pixel]

If youre going to blame everything on welfare, why are socialist countries so wealthy?

The problem is that our country is too large and we have too many people wanting to go different directions. If the whole country wanted one thing, or at least worked together to compromise, we would be far better off but no party is willing to do that because now-a-days its not a matter of whats wrong or right for the country its all about whats wrong or right for your party.

[Harm94]

If youre going to blame everything on welfare, why are socialist countries so wealthy?

The problem is that our country is too large and we have too many people wanting to go different directions. If the whole country wanted one thing, or at least worked together to compromise, we would be far better off but no party is willing to do that because now-a-days its not a matter of whats wrong or right for the country its all about whats wrong or right for your party.

Only the nordic countries are doing fine. Russia who pioneered socialism and communism for years is no a Capitalist super power. California the most socialist state in the US is broke, I know because I live there. You are some dude from New Jeresy, what would you know about California?

[Fredulus]

Only the nordic countries are doing fine. Russia who pioneered socialism and communism for years is no a Capitalist super power. California the most socialist state in the US is broke, I know because I live there. You are some dude from New Jeresy, what would you know about California?

most handicapped post 2013

[Pixel]

Only the nordic countries are doing fine. Russia who pioneered socialism and communism for years is no a Capitalist super power. California the most socialist state in the US is broke, I know because I live there. You are some dude from New Jeresy, what would you know about California?

Since when is California the most socialist state in the country? Alaska is heavily considered the most socialist state in America.

I also dont get where you were going with that last line, I never mentioned California. The fact that you edited it in so late confuses me.

[Fredulus]

ur jus som dude from new jeresey what wold you know about anything ? ? ? forgetign new jeresy SCUM

[Harm94]

Since when is California the most socialist state in the country? Alaska is heavily considered the most socialist state in America.

I also dont get where you were going with that last line, I never mentioned California. The fact that you edited it in so late confuses me.

One word: welfare

[Fredulus]

One word: welfare

your just som guy from califnornia what wold you know about ANYTHING fuken SCUM

[Mikoyan]

Only the nordic countries are doing fine. Russia who pioneered socialism and communism for years is no a Capitalist super power. California the most socialist state in the US is broke, I know because I live there. You are some dude from New Jeresy, what would you know about California?

hm I wonder how much debt Russia's in???