But would it? Would it really? Or to look at it slightly differently would it collapse worse than what is going on now in slow motion?
Yes it would. And yes, it'll collapse anyway unless everyone stops acting like total jackasses. What's it going to take? Another 40 million dead? Of course now it would be 10 times that.
If you can default and quit borrowing, why not just quit borrowing right now? Besides, if everyone (or even one large country) defaulted, the world economy would collapse.
Ahmadinejnut did not win in a free vote, that vote was as free as the Soviet ones used to be. And he can't wait to get his hands on a nuke, so he can cause an apocalypse and bring back the 12th Imam.
We just need the Feds to mind their own business more. Individual states are perfectly capable of implementing whatever utopian socialist welfare state they want.
Three rules for making a Bioware game:
1 and most important: You must be able to bone everyone in the party
2 The plot must be written by a six year old right after he watches too many Saturday morning cartoons
3 There can never be enough inane, pointless conversations
I judge an RPG by how much interesting stuff it has for me to do. That's why I consider KOTOR 2 one of the greatest games, and even NWN2 (though fairly average) to be better than MOTB.
What our voters and politicians need to realize is that if we want European levels of social services, we're going to have to pay European level taxes as well. Of course here we always want to have our cake and eat it too.