The US is headed toward 3rd world status. It will be a good cheap place to live if you have your money invested elsewhere. I see this around the world every day via ham radio. Yesterday I heard a station in southern Chile with an English accent. I looked him up on the web and he lives at a beach resort 300 yards from the Pacific Ocean north of a large city in southern Chile. He lives in a strip of houses most with pools and beach access like a small compound for the retired and no shacks for miles around. I talk to people all the time in American compounds in Central America, the south Pacific Islands etc., all retired there because the living is cheap but of course your money has to be invested elsewhere. It sounds strange to hear a person calling from Spain with an English accent. It sounds just as strange to hear an American with a Russian accent when even the Russians speak better English than most Americans do and no accent. Citizens of the world you might say.
Most operators in Africa are either French or Dutch. I never remember talking with a black African in Africa. I remember from my Army days in the Far East that our entertainment people were from Australia, New Zealand and surrounding Islands. They are really neat people most Americans have never heard of. My point being, the US is not the only place on earth. America did not become a great nation because of its geographical location, it became great because of its freedom and the fact that the people were governable attributable to their Judeo-Christian World view with its emphasis on the supremacy of the individual and family as opposed to the state. In this world view we believed that God created the government to serve the people but now the statist who hold power have a different world view that says that nature evolved people to serve the government. When the world view shifted the American People became ungovernable thus our present situation-stalemate. The state just ran out of other people’s money. The money has a new venue.
I saw on the news yesterday that in 1995 white Americans has 7 times the wealth as black Americans. Today in 2011 white Americans have 20 times the wealth of black Americans and 18 times as much as Hispanics. The black lost their wealth in the housing debacle which was a creation of the state to help black America bridge the gap. They bridged it alright as the numbers show. Next year this time it will be many times worse. That is where the state world view gets you.