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List 10 reasons that will made it hard or impossible for the US to regain its former position in the world?

1. Be short & concise & offer no explanations.

2. An example is: No general use of metric system.

Update:

You haven't even come close, the first two are:

1. Inability or unwillingness of the government to govern

2. The worst healthcare system in the world, bankruptying people & companies & leaving 60,000.000 without any health care at all.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Sounds like public school homework!

    We became a super power without the metric system.

    No manufacturing , massive debt, dumbed down education, crooked politicians, globalization, massive third world invasion, welfare, George Soros, socialism instead of capitalism, third world culture, and once again - massive debt.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    a million. urge for nutrition for Destruction - weapons N' Roses 2. Led Zeppelin IV 3. Toys interior the Attic - Aerosmith 4. Beggars feast - The Rolling Stones 5. The Wall - purple Floyd 6. Use Your phantasm a million&2 - weapons N' Roses 7. Mob rules 8. The White Album - The Beatles 9. Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens 10. Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin

  • 1 decade ago

    1. Obama

    2. Biden

    3. Pelosi

    4. Frank

    5. Dodds

    6. Kennedy

    7. Kerry

    8. Sean Penn

    9. Keith Olberman

    10. Clinton

  • 1 decade ago

    1. we are quickly becoming a socialist nation.

    2. no longer the beacon of hope and light we once were.

    3. no one trusts us to be there reserve bank anymore.

    4. in 40 years, we went from the worlds leading lender to the worlds leading debtor.

    5. We now persecute our military for doing what we asked them to do.

    6 we are swiftly losing our financial Independence

    7. we have no major exports.

    8. We do not enforce our own laws yet ask other countries to enforce our laws.

    9. we refuse to solve our own problems yet insist on solving everyone Else's.

    10. we do not heed the warnings of countries who have traveled this path before us.

    Source(s): If you want background, explanation, or facts proving my points just ask. i allow email.
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  • 1 decade ago

    Obama times 10.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    There aren't 10 reasons.

    There isn't even 1 reason.

    America will still be held as the greatest of nations.

  • 1 decade ago

    1) Bush

    2) Cheney

    3) Rumsfeld

    4) Gonzales

    5) Rice

    6) Chow

    7) Meyers

    8) Wolfowitz

    9) Paulson

    10) Mission Accomplished!!

  • 1 decade ago

    -Debt

    -Service on the debt

    -More debt

    -No manufacturing base makes us vulnerable to whims of goods producers

    -Service economy easily undermined

    -Feed and seed becoming sterile, patented goods

    -Lack of willpower

    -Lack of fundamental civics education

    -Lack of critical thinking

    -Being led by emotional pitches from the devious to the well-intended

    (whereby the road to Hell is paved)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Iraq

    Afghanistan

    US debt

    Trade deficit

    Too many social programs (more debt)

    Inflation

    Source(s): Time for tea party nailed it
  • 1 decade ago

    there's no reason why the US won't regain if everyone is very much willing to cooperate with the government

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