When America decays, it will not remain a single nation state. It will likely become split into at least 3 nations, and will likely lost Hawaii altogether.   See 70 other replies

Scott:1. Fake photos on MSNBC stupid.2. Obama administration posting of jobs created in phony districts is a non story. It has nothing to do with recovery.gov as a whole. Out of thousands of postings, they have found 70 (apparently) that were erroneous.The actual story is that the site does present a very transparent view of where stimulus money is going, however determining the number of jobs it is creating and the merit of those jobs for a green economy is difficult. But you can believe a distorted account if you want. 3. Agreed that our mainstream media is terrible in providing honesty.   See 10 other replies

What about the fake photos on MSNBC of Sarah Palin. And the Obama Administrations posting of jobs created in phony districts? The media is more and more becoming a cartoon, like Jon Stewart's show.   See 10 other replies

America's period of colonialism was cut short by ww2, but America had many proxy states and puppets. From South Vietnam to Iran under the Shah, we were controlling things. We just maintained a lower profile than the Soviets did. China is interested in making money and fully modernizing, they cater to our needs right now. The EU is a mostly economic alliance with a rotating presidency. Its not very unified at all, and it has no military. If, or when, America decays we'll become less active on the world stage and probably return to an agrarian base. Our big challenge is that we don't produce anything here.   See 70 other replies

Even socialist countries generally are not so socialist as to spread government profits (such as from a state-run train company or postal carrier) amongst the populace. It just doesn't work that way, except for in Mtkoan Fantasy Land.   See 70 other replies

The definition clearly states that the nation owns the company. It says nothing about the people owning or making any profit. Most nations are not democracies. Even those that represent themselves to be, the people usually don't profit when the government does. Nationalization is more common in tyrannical states. Your assumption that simply because the populace makes no profit disqualifies it from being nationalization is simply incorrect. "If the state is a tyrant then the People don't own the company.""the definition: The nation owning a company"The definition does not mention the people for a reason: they are irrelevant to the discussion. "This is a joint public-private ownership that was undertaken only to keep the company alive."Whatever keeps you asleep at night, I guess... ;)   See 70 other replies

You are not the only one who thinks that AIG (at least) is nationalizing a company. But it is a nationalization that is not the same nationalization as is traditionally thought of where the nationalization is total. This is a joint public-private ownership that was undertaken only to keep the company alive.http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/socialism-21st-century-style/   See 70 other replies