Among the characteristics that contributed to those declines were Massive National debt. The United States is a 23 trillion, and growing, just the interest on it alone is greater than the Gross Domestic Product of some nations. I like President Trump state of union speech the other night except for one thing. He didnt talk about cutting a single Government Program or even the rate of increase in spending. This is the only nonpartisan thing that happens in this town is spending. You can always get agreement on more. The second contribution to the decline of great nations and superpowers and empires is uncontrolled immigration without assimilation. We want people to come to america but we want them to come legally and in an orderly fashion, and then to be assimilated like the immigrants of the past and become fully american, not hyphenated americans as we have too often today. Then theres the loss of a moral sense also contributing to the decline of great nations. In America Today as col
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Were Massive National debt, the United States is a 23 trillion growing just the interest on that alone is greater then the Gross Domestic Product of some nations. I liked President Trumps state of the union speech the other night except he didnt talk about cutting a single Government Program or the rate of increase in spending. This is the only nonpartisan thing that happens is spending. You can always get more. A second contribution to the decline of great nations and superpowers and employers as uncontrolled immigration without assimilation. We want people to come to america that we want them to come legally and in an orderly fashion and then to be assimilated like the immigrants of the past and become fully american, not hyphenated americans as we have too often today. Then there is the moral sense contributing to the decline of great nations. In America Today there is a song in the 1930s anything goes. If you say stop or this is too far, you are immediately announced as a bigot or