Re: More future history questions - USA

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Richard Morgan had a similar split for the US. The Pacific Rim, Eastern
States and Jesus Land.
 
It's been stated by other non finctional authors that many of the middle
states of the US would ahve 3rd world economies if it wasn't for central
government spending. How that will go with defence and NASA budget cuts
 
It's also been postulated about how the US would / could fall from it's
position as world number 1.
 
Either scenarios like the EMP pulse from Dark Angel or a terroist nuking
like Babylon 5. Alternatively look at the American economy. They are the
worlds biggest debtor and the struggle to export and mounting personal
debt makes it harder for domestic consumption to get the economy out of
trouble. With the government struggling to balance it's books as well
it's hard to see where the economic stimulous will come from.
 
The one thing that the US has going for it is that it is "too big to
fail" a failure by the US economy would have major impacts on their
major trading partners (nearly everyone) and so have ripple effects
around the world. People are far less likely to call in their loans on
the US than they might be on smaller countries like Greece..
 
it will be intersting to see if Greece can get itself out of the mess or
whether it triggers a domino effect accross the Euro zone.