Reply #20: I spent the mid to late sixties in a government info collecting [View All]

[alfredo]

agency. I learned a few things there. The years proved what I had heard and read. We just needed to be patient, and keep pressure on them. It was like playing chess in a way so you could win by attrition.

They were crumbling from within. Instead of reinvesting in infrastructure, they pumped money into the military. Roads, bridges, and utilities were failing, but the money went to the military industrial complex. Cronyism, hubris, paranoia, and greed did them in. Sounds familiar doesn't it?