Greatest Threat Facing US

What is the largest threat facing America?

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RespectTradition

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What is the largest threat facing America?

Rogue state with nuclear weapons

Terrorism

Environment/Global Warming

Runaway Govt Spending/Debt/Unfunded Liabilities

China (militarily)

China (economically)

China (both)

Big Corporations/Wall Street

Decaying Morals

Something Else
 
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Depends on definition of "largest" or "greatest."

If soonest, I'd go with Terrorism or maybe rogue state.

If more endemic, I'd go with Wall Street or China, economically.

If able to topple us, I'd go with China, militarily.

If longer term but more certain, I'd go with spending.

If super long term I'd go with environment.


After that I'm going to say the Sun, obv.
 
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voted (and in my best gsvol imitation)

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lawgator1 said:
Depends on definition of "largest" or "greatest."

If soonest, I'd go with Terrorism or maybe rogue state.

If more endemic, I'd go with Wall Street or China, economically.

If able to topple us, I'd go with China, militarily.

If longer term but more certain, I'd go with spending.

If super long term I'd go with environment.


After that I'm going to say the Sun, obv.
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You're about as likely to be killed by a terrorist as you are likely to get struck by lightning.

This question has a very, very easy answer, IMO. It's the budget/spending.
 
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Would the development of an entitlement attitude be considered "decaying morals" or "runaway spending." Chicken or the egg type thing I guess.
 
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I am going with decaying morals. I am including in this category lack of ethics, decreasing patriotism, and other "attitude issues" that are leading to our national decline. That being said, one of the other items on the list will likely be our undoing. Without the decay of our morals and attitudes, none of them would be able to take us out.
 
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Headed For Home said:
I am going with decaying morals. I am including in this category lack of ethics, decreasing patriotism, and other "attitude issues" that are leading to our national decline. That being said, one of the other items on the list will likely be our undoing. Without the decay of our morals and attitudes, none of them would be able to take us out.
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So we can't be defeated militarily as long as we are righteous? We can't go bankrupt?
 
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Political correctness and unaccountable agencies like the EPA
 
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Chinese, right now economically but soon they will match us in terms of military tech.
 
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#15
giant asteroids
supervolanos
locusts
high-fructose corn syrup
serial killers
vodka-soaked anal tampons
 
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I read this the other day and I think if you couple it with the amount of Social Security and Medicare liabilities coming up, and the general inability of politicians or people in general to look out for their long term interests, the future is looking, economically fairly grim. The only positive I can find is that America is still pretty awesome and we are almost too big to fail.

But even under most optimistic scenarios, the US will grow at only ~3% maximum in the foreseeable future. So the US will need to keep its deficit at also ~3% in order to maintain its debt-to-GDP ratio.

For example if the US runs an 8.5% deficit in 2012 and grows at 2.5%, then the remaining 6% will be added the 99.7% debt-to-GDP ratio that America already has. But since the Euro is currently sucking and the RMB is still pegged to the dollar, investors really have no other choice than to buy more US government bonds, allowing the US to delay having to inflate away its debt. But once the Euro is fixed and the RMB is set free, then investors will start dumping the overprinted dollar en masse for new reserve currencies, which would cause massive inflation in the US.

Under the Obama budget the US isn't expected to hit 3% deficit until 2019, and by then it may be too late as the Euro will probably be fixed pretty soon and the RMB freed in 5-10 years. Just look at what happened to the US dollar in the first half of 2008 when the US deficit was too high and the Euro was strong. Imagine that but 3 times as severe if US hasn't fixed its debt problem when the RMB is released.

So the Tea Party, despite consisting of mostly idiots who have zero understanding of economics, is correct in saying that the US monetary system is a ticking time bomb. Although their proposed cuts to short-term gov spending would cause far too much damage to the US economy, Obama's budget in contrast runs a far too large deficit which is just as bad.

The GOP and DEMs really need to find a way to truly compromise here, and not just continue their half-baked odd compromises that no one is happy with, if America wants to prevent its monetary time bomb from exploding.
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Seems like we have found a consensus, even though not a unanimous one.

The way govt handles budgets is our biggest threat.

I concur.
 
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Government is only as big as the people allow it to be.

Blaming government is a cop out as people like Obama are voted in.

The biggest problem facing this country is the average American who know lives on social benefits and has no work ethic or drive.

This country is falling apart faster than the speed of light due to lazy ass Americans who want someone else to do it for them.

*And I'm talking white people too LG*
 
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RespectTradition said:
Seems like we have found a consensus, even though not a unanimous one.

The way govt handles budgets is our biggest threat.

I concur.
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who voted these morons in?


It's like blaming the retard for burning the house down when someone let the retard play with fire.
 
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Nuclear weapons really don't scare me much any more, MAD has worked to perfection.
 
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