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"Security in the Twenty-First Century", Page 468
"For the United States to survive the new realities of war, it must give up being a superpower. The role is too expensive to maintain, particularly considering the massive national debt. Given that we live in a world dominated by fluid markets, flirtation with bankruptcy isn't a sound long-term strategy. The United States is critical. If it can overcome these barriers (retool it's defense system, and shrink the national deficit), it could emerge intact or even stronger than today, and help support the global system. If not, international violence may continue to spin out of control, putting our global system, as we understand it, at risk. For the sake of all our futures, the world's sole remaining superpower needs to chart a new course."
Contradiction at its absolute best. Gore likes to fight reality with backwards logic. The United States before 1913, as far as I understand, was actually enormously more prosperous than the rest of the world and certainly more comparatively productive to the rest of the world than it is today. This is at a time before the income tax, before inflated money supplies, before the welfare state, before insane trade deficits when public bailouts of businesses would be a weak and cold-hearted political favor (as well as a horrifying precursor to socialism) and people would prove themselves by their actual productivity and not by their state-mandated licenses and certificates. Things worked out. It wasn't expensive government programs that caused it either. It was free market innovation and ingenuity. Imagine that. People can be productive by themselves and need no inflated money supply or borrowing overkill to get them going.
Al, face the facts dude. You are the one who pushes for overspending. You are the one who promotes these pushes for billions to be spent on alternative fuels and power sources. You are the one who props up the welfare state. You are the one who will gain from one world government and you love destroying the dollar. "Well, for some reason, our currency is in the gutter. In order to avoid further depreciation and inflation, it is critical that we adopt a new currency...the AMERO!"