Locator: 49757COLLAPSE.
Breaking: "Walzing Minnesotan" -- link here --
Also: Cubans in Florida are being deported in record numbers.
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Collapse Of An Empire
This was from another "Million Dollar Way" blog on April 10, 2025, link here.
Collapse of an empire -- some of these have not held up well; most have:
Some thoughts based on recent readings and current events.
Collapse of an empire:
- highly bureaucratic; highly regulated;
- European Unionization of the kingdom
- disruption of trading patterns
- failure to address imbalance of trade
- loss of border integrity
- breakdown of social order; social disorder
- petty crime; illicit drug use
- failure of immigrants to assimilate one's new country
- multilingual
- dress
- religion
- severe maldistribution of wealth;
- egomaniacal leaders; grandiose delusional leaders;
- mega-projects with little social benefit or likelihood of success
- manned voyages to Mars; manned voyages beyond the earth's moon
- bullet trains
- loss of a vibrant two-party political system
- the Californication of US politics (extreme gerrymandering resulting in 100% Democratic-controlled counties)
- bad strategic decisions; losing strategic advantages for no gain
- selling the Panama Canal to to Panama for one dollar -- perhaps my favorite
- government leaders unable to think strategically -- added since original post
- misguided military spending
- $5-million missiles to take out $5,000 drones
The biggest oversight: widespread fraud that federal and state government officials no longer care about or actually encourage.
