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Warpy

(111,274 posts)
1. Well, if it falls apart to that extent, foreign investments and foreign currency
Fri May 26, 2017, 02:20 PM
May 2017

aren't going to do any good since they'll be unreachable and unusable.

But yes, what happens in the end game of capitalism when money has concentrated into so few hands and business has monopolized, with poverty at the bottom destroying the marketplace to the point that the pipline is choked with goods and services that remain unsold is that the whole business collapses under its own weight. Sometimes there is an accompanying war of one description or another and sometimes there is depression, starvation and enough threat of revolution that the vestiges of government finally do the right thing.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. "It is no longer a certainty that America will remain a stable country"
Fri May 26, 2017, 03:37 PM
May 2017

Yep.
A lot depends on how Trump goes down. While the Russian connection can be dismantled,
the Koch brothers Freedom Caucus cannot remain if we are to have stability.

some of us are financially trapped and cannot afford to move. But those who can, should go for dual citizenship if possible.

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