The Decline of the U.S.

     Although the U.S. seems like it is declining, mainly because of the debt and government corruption, it is still hundreds of years away from collapsing. This becomes apparent when looking at Rome and finding out where the U.S in in Romes Timeline. Looking at the contributing Factors to the fall of the Roman Western Empire, very little of the United State's problems line up with Rome's problems. The future is actually bright for the U.S., with less wars being fought around the world and the biggest threat, North Korea, is denuclearizing. This eliminates any foreseen Military issues in the U.S. There are some social problems in the U.S. that were similar to Rome's. Rome's people started to have low confidence in the empire and gained a lack of patriotism. This is apparent in the U.S. today, with the media only showing the bad things the government did or is going to do. Even U.S. politician's campaign for "fixing the country." However, this is a smaller social problem, and unlike Rome, the government would most likely not be overthrown. When it comes to economic problems, this is where people usually panic and believe the U.S. is declining and will fall soon; but in reality, it is not that bad and has been much worse and we have recovered relatively quickly. The great depression seemed to some people to be the end of the country, but it only lasted ten years and it recovered. Another argument is that the debt is unrecoverable and will bring the end of the country. with a current debt of 22 trillion dollars, that seems to be the case. However, a lot of economists believe that the debt is not as bad as it seems and it is controllable. As we learned from history, as long as money is not printed to fix this issue the economy will be fine. In conclusion, the U.S. is not in a decline, and looking at the problems Rome had proves it.