Comments on: A More Enduring Empire?

By: bayou bobby

bayou bobby — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:10:30 +0000

Paulo Dubitaticus writes: “…like it or not. Unenslaved territories and peoples have other options and won’t necessary pay tribute (taxes) or obedience to a power…”

Change unenslaved territories to trading partners and change tribute to buy treasuries and you’ll have it.

By: Mario

Mario — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:34:00 +0000

Actually , I don’t know why are you so concerned about this; France is practicing that for almost 100 years – is called ” The French Foreign Legion” , the Brits are on the ideea for almost 50 years – is called ” Green Berrets ” , and where are they right now?…
England is on the verge of collapse ( almost like their cusin Iceland) and France is so clueless, they elected a former Hungarian Count as their President, which brought them a hore as the First Lady!
Isn’t the politics the best show on Earth?!…

By: Gareth

Gareth — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:22:54 +0000

More and more this is reminding me of the emerging markets crisis of the ’90′s – come home to roost.

Seems like we got the Argentine option (devalue the currency and fire-sale everything that’s not nailed down) or the Malaysia option (throttle currency and capital movements, double down on state-sponsored cartel industry).

Liquidate or regiment. Hard to say which is the least worst option, but pretty easy to tell which way the masses will go…

By: Paulo Dubitaticus

Paulo Dubitaticus — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:37:03 +0000

The Roman Empire disintegrated completely
about 490 AD, about 300 years after Nero and Caligula played their cute tricks. The USA Empire might (and probably will) sink much faster because (A) almost 90% of all’ labor’ in the Roman Empire consisted of slaves or serfs who had, literally, NO other survival options, and (B)the Roman Empire’s economy was based on conquest and tribute, not trade and production. Conquered territories and peoples paid tribute to the Roman Empire, like it or not. Unenslaved territories and peoples have other options and won’t necessary pay tribute (taxes) or obedience to a power who cannjot just chop their heads off or enslave them at will. The US Empire could fade fast, if push ever comes to shove.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:42:59 +0000

Once the immigrants do their time in the military, they would become productive citizens and add to the tax paying base. Therefore, what Dave is saying is correct, they could help pay for the welfare state in the long run.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:27:20 +0000

Perhaps with the influx of foreigners from the south infused in our military, this may provide the training that the mexican government needs for it’s military in order to properly integrate itself within the North American Union (NAU) which is inevitable with the continued devaluation of the dollar.

By: P.Alessio

P.Alessio — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:54:02 +0000

Onestly, this piece you wrote is pure madness. Immigrants brings in money when they are put to productive work… and the army does not qualify as that, unless you plan for 3rd world war and pillaging other countrys. With a HUGE deficit and a ever-growing debt, how in the world will the Us pay for more soldiers, plus assure their future benefits, if it can not pay bills now or garantuee future welfare obligations? Really, man… come back to Earth and the real world, Us will not be saved by this stupid ideas. Work is what is needed: the plain old manufacturing of natural resources in material goods exchanged by free citizens.