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It looks like the US is on its way out. All empires end when they get too big and then get overblown with a big military while its core crumbles with its civilians become poorer. Pure capitalism can't ever work as it will always leave too much power in the hands of just a few people who will still want more and more until the system collapses. The six ancient Chinese civilizations all ended the same way and the Chinese never learnt their lesson. A greedy few would always in the end hollow out a great civilization until it imploded. These 'free market' economists don't know what they are talking about and the libertarians live in a fantasy world. Here Jimmy Dore says how the bankers bankrupted the country but the teachers were told that their unions had helped bring the country down. So
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It looks like the US is on its way out. All empires end when they get too big and then get overblown with a big military while its core crumbles with its civilians become poorer. Pure capitalism can't ever work as it will always leave too much power in the hands of just a few people who will still want more and more until the system collapses. The six ancient Chinese civilizations all ended the same way and the Chinese never learnt their lesson. A greedy few would always in the end hollow out a great civilization until it imploded. These 'free market' economists don't know what they are talking about and the libertarians live in a fantasy world. It looks like the US is on its way out. All empires end when they get too big and then get overblown with a big military while its core crumbles with its civilians become poorer. Pure capitalism can't ever work as it will always leave too much power in the hands of just a few people who will still want more and more until the system collapses. The six ancient Chinese civilizations all ended the same way and the Chinese never learnt their lesson. A greedy few would always in the end hollow out a great civilization until it imploded. These 'free market' economists don't know what they are talking about and the libertarians live in a fantasy world. Here Jimmy Dore says how the bankers bankrupted the country but the teachers were told that their unions had helped bring the country down. So
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Here Jimmy Dore says how the bankers bankrupted the country but the teachers were told that their unions had helped bring the country down. So the bankers got richer on taxpayers money and teachers became poorer, but isn't investing in children's education a way to help a country become prosperous?
In this video Jimmy Dore says how when RT got forced to register as a foreign agent that this was just the start and now the Chinese news agency, Zinhua, has been forced to do the same. Is Al Jazeera and TeleSUR next? The US has long lost its democracy as the corporate media allows no true debate.