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Liquidating the Empire

All-4-USA Wrote: Feb 23, 2010 4:32 PM
CORRECTION... Empire building began well before James Polk's Manifest Destiny.

Our great Founding Father Thomas Jefferson really started the ball rolling with his UNconstitutional Louisiana Purchase!

Yes, the Constitution was not meant to be some untouchable godlike decree from God, but rather a sound starting point, as most of the Founders knew change and unforeseen circumstances were inevitable.

A decade ago, Oldsmobile went. Last year, Pontiac. Saturn, Saab and Hummer were discontinued. A thousand GM dealerships shut down.

To those who grew up in a "GM family," where buying a Chrysler was like converting to Islam, what happened to GM was deeply saddening.

Yet the amputations had to be done -- or GM would die.

And the same may be about to happen to the American Imperium.

Its birth can be traced to World War II, when America put 16 million men in uniform and sent millions across the seas to crush Nazi Germany and Japan. After V-E...

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