Originally posted by HybridKyle
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Also, once the government goes bankrupt, there won't be ANYTHING government run because the government will collapse and cease to be, at which point it will be total anarchy and every man, woman, and child for themselves. If you look back through history, a government collapse never resulted in tyranny from the same government. It was always a new government that usually started out as a bunch of warring clans, the strongest of which gained total power. I do not believe it is a scenario which we want to recreate. Things don't historically go well for a long time, because then, ultimately if the cool, level heads can't prevail to make a functional agreed upon government, we have to go through the bullshit of rebelling, getting thousands of people killed, and then forming a suitable government. One would hope it would go down like the collapse of the Russian government, where everybody mostly agreed on a new way foward, although their situation wasn't without its B.S. and power struggles either.
One other philisophical observation about this country in the current age. We are no longer proud to be "American" we are more worried about dividing ourselves into groups, denominations, sects, whatever you want to call it.
It is no longer about "I am an AMERICAN." It is about I am a FEMALE American, or I am an AFRICAN American, or I am a MEXICAN American, etc. etc. etc. down the line. The funny thing is that often right after they make that distinction, they then turn around and complain about this thing called "equality" and how they want it, or don't have it. But the problem is that nobody can ever be equal as long as we divide ourselves amongst ourselves. Unless we all have the common goal of being an AMERICAN, without the tags, taglines, denominations etc, we are destined to fail. We can not be united as a people, if we do not stand united.
Case in point. My family is from a large number of different countries. I have everything from almost enough Native American to live on a reservation, to Italian, German, British, French Canadien, Polish, English etc. etc. My ancestors all came over on a boat, all from different cultures etc. When they got here, they managed to be "American" without losing their cultural identity. My Italian family still acted and observed all of the italian traditions, family values, and cultural functions. But, when it came time to make life decisions, they were "American."
Perhaps due to the way the country was settled and the fact that blacks were not given their freedoms until much later, and through much more violent methods, they decided to identify as a single group, while all white people were lumped together, even though our backgrounds are as varied as anybodies. Still to this day, you are either "white" or a minority, as though all white people are exactly the same. It isn't something that necessarily bothers me, but I think it would be much more beneficial in the long term, if we didn't divide ourselves. Countries in Europe don't get it because they just are. English black people don't identify themselves much differently than English white people. Obviously, there are cultural, heritage and religious differences, but they don't seem to divide the way they do here. We are still relatively young as a nation as well, so perhaps we will figure it out in the future. I do see progress in being "blind" from generation to generation, so that is progress in the right direction.
I don't know, just a random musing I got after listening to Bill Cosby.
You have all these employees of other car manufacturers, and dealerships that have not been paid. Where's the stimulation there? I guess maybe a reach around would be nice. 
They have government run health care 
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