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50118 Re: What if
   De with a population that small what is to keep the US from being ove... 		micro   6TH POPE   13 Feb 2024
 2:55 PM
50115 Re: What if
   [b]We could easily crank up production in a few years such that we wou... 		CTJ   6TH POPE   13 Feb 2024
 7:22 AM

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Re: What if

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 13 Feb 24 6:02 AM
Msg. 50114 of 60008
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CTJ:

Re: “What if for five years we...”Whenever radical change is imposed quickly, it is a shock to the system. In the case you've described, it would be akin to a massive, impregnable bubble being placed around the United States (with tubes extending to Hawaii, Alaska and the various territories.) The shock would be horrendous... a bloodbath... as we struggled to deal with food production and distribution at the expense of medicines, disaster assistance, equipment repair, power production, crime prevention. Everything for which there is a foreign dependency would shut down. People would die by the tens of millions. In a year, perhaps things would begin to improve, but I wouldn't be surprised if the population was sliced in half. Disease would be rampant. And so would barbarism.

Like it or not, we are heavily dependent on the rest of the world right now. What we need is a managed separation, not a 'sink or swim' solution.

Your question, though, is what the country would look like in five years. My guess is that we would be a nation on the improve, with a population of 50 to 100 million.


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