Keep dwindling that tax base down to cheap overseas labor and they damn sure will be unless they can convince foreigners to pay them income tax.

Now couple that with the fact most of the nation's food supply
comes from corporate factory farms delivered by ever-increasingly ****ed-off truckers over fuel prices to a nation of people who for the most part have forgotten the definition of self-reliance a long time ago and you have the ingredients for a real nice, panic-stricken, **** sandwich.

More like each side couldn't decide on the best way to waste it and borrow, borrow, borrow again.

Nah, not really that at all.

I don't get why fuel prices are such a big deal in the US. Have no-one there ever seen how much we pay in England? We pay so much more than people in the US, and we haven't blockaded roads or anything since the 90s, even thuogh we love a good riot. The US kind of needs to take control of its crazy fuel consumption.

In other news, looks like the lights didn't go off in America. I'm kind of disappointed, but I guess this could never have been anything other than an anticlimax.

Basically it's because we set up our infrastructure based around cheap fuel. The suburbs popped up left and right outside of the city when fuel was cheap and plentiful. Nowadays people still have to make that same commute albeit much more costly. There's not much in the way of train/subway travel. Believe me, if I could ditch a car and use /had the option to use public transport and just rent a car when I needed to make a special trip, I'd be all over it.