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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (60370)	12/18/2012 7:04:50 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I was puzzled by your reply so clicked back upstream and now I see that I misread your post about being poised to achieve greatness. I see now that you meant the past, rather than the future. Now it makes sense. Yes, greater than all that went before. Poised not so much to achieve future greatness, rather, have already achieved greatness. Now poised to achieve failure. But don't give up yet. The USA still can continue to even more amazingness. The trends are not so good though, as you say. People around the world adopt what they can of the greatness from everywhere and go on to do what they can. Much of that is Americanisms of all sorts, which have been and will be adopted to a greater or lesser extent. With a globalized population, my guess is that there will be a community of interest built up around the world superseding nation-states which has been happening for quite a long time and will continue as everyone pursues their own interests, escaping as best they can from the strictures of their localisms. France [once great] is jacking up taxes, but people are escaping. As they do. Countries which kill the golden geese are finding that the geese fly off to friendlier places, as always. Mqurice