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In article <4f7o5h$d0p@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, tommyt9948@aol.com (TommyT9948) writes:
|> 3) Nations that fail to seal their boarders against the influx of economic
|> immigrants will fall victim to the same over-consumption of natural
|> resources that led the immigrants to flee in the first place.

I don't buy this.  The attempts to seal the boarders will create conditions
ripe for envious people to respond with force against perceived force.  Defense
is not as easy or as cheap as offense and it is unlikely that those in control
of large per capita resources will be able to prevent all destructive attacks
from those who feel they have little or nothing to loose from a counter attack.

I believe we will see the need for cultural imperalism and will engage in
cultural warfare.  While US of America will appropriate portions of other
cultures it will blend them with others and bend them to its purposes and
feed them back to the originating cultures.  Consumer goods will lead the
way with trademarks that confuse the younger generation about their own
culture.

The US will continue to see ever greater economic gap between its rich and
poor and the middle class will continue to fade until world cultural integration
occurs.  Food riots will occur and "welfare" states will be created and the
boarders closed by way of road tolls.

Once cultural integration is established the poor will form associations to
exert their power of superior numbers and the middle class will be 
reestablished on a world scale possibly through armed conflict and the
destruction of economic centers.

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--gary forbis@u.washington.edu