On 7-2-2010 22:02, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> The US need a very big crisis to get out of this mess. The last one 
>> was apparently not enough.
> 
> Historically speaking, it tends to be the crises that make it worse, not 
> better.
> 
> You don't get the draft during peacetime. You don't get the Federal 
> Reserve when the economy is humming along.  You don't get to toss out 
> Habeas Corpus unless there's a big "emergency" that "justifies" it.

I was thinking about a crisis so severe that the US drops to place 
number 50 of richest countries in the world and their government is 
forced to comply with the rules dictated by the now richest 8.

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