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To: Fun-da-Mental#1 who wrote (4800)	3/29/2007 3:27:45 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50264

It's certainly a good discussion point. I am a citizen of the UK, but the argument I present applies almost equally to the UK and the USA. Europe has it's own designs of expansion. The main reasons why the USA became top dog at the end of WW2 was because it was an economic powerhouse. The UK's former dominance was also because of it's advanced manufacturing base at the time. The Soviet Union broke up because of poor economic performance, not weakness of the military, or it's nuclear capability. What are the new ways our countries are going to do well in the new world order? We can hardly go to war with China when the last UK factory making shoes (Dr Martins) went to China a few years ago. When the Chinese infantry come over the hill, we aren't even going to be able to run away because our troops won't have any boots! One way to keep them in the line I suppose. No matter how good your education, or your health care system, how are we going to compete with Asia at a fundamental level when we are all minimum wage employees of Walmart living in houses that cost a million bucks? I know we were always a nation of shopkeepers, but we will run out of things to sell the first time we make a face at our new manufacturing base... Asia. There will be a lot of J6P's, in the USA and the UK... who used to have real jobs, asking the same questions too I expect.