'EXCEPTIONAL' countries DO NOT LET THE ELDERY & CHILDREN starve.

[pansypoo53219]

let bridges crumble. only fund the military. etc etc.

[sabrina 1]

1. No they don't. But Empires do .... n/t

[Brigid]

4. This is exactly what Rome did.

Crumbling infrastructure, both physical and social, is a sign of a crumbling society that has wasted its resources on building an empire instead of its people.

[jwirr]

6. "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" by Paul Kennedy. He warned us. And Chalmers Johnson added

more.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. Yep.

[Avalux]

2. EXCEPTIONAL countries give all citizens a $2800/mo. basic living income.

http://news.yahoo.com/swiss-vote-2-500-franc-basic-income-every-145541814--sector.html

[Hydra]

3. Exceptionally bad ones do. n/t

[indepat]

7. About the only thing presently exceptional in 'Murika is an exceptionally virulent form of

putridly right-wing extremism that has metastasized and is rapidly eating away the entrails of the Republic, killing untold numbers of its residents every day through a calculated callous, mean-spirited, and inhumane RW PNAC agenda.