Goodbye Cruel World
What would happen to the United States if it were to close its doors to the rest of the world?
This question has been plaguing me for quite some time. It really came to the front of my mind when I stumbled across this page on yahoo: which shows Iran's “Deputy Revolutionary Guards Commander” Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr at a conference titled: “The world without America”.
Strangely enough when drafting this post I came across this webpage. So it’s Rush, I don’t really care for the guy all that much but the page does sum up things somewhat well.
Now for a Gedankenexperiment .
Lets say the United States were to implement the following policy tomorrow:
A) All ships in port have 24 hours to leave or else be seized if not ported in the United States.
B) All ships from that point that enter the United States waters would be seized.
C) All arriving foreign nationals would be screened to determine if it is the best interests of the United States to remain.
D) Reduce flights in and out of the United States to virtually zero. (Eventually after all citizens outside of the Unite States had a chance to return).
E) Evicted the UN from their HQ. Give them 24 hours to comply before all records are seized (Although from an intelligence stand point it would be better to have a false fire alarm and not let any of those evacuated back to the premises). Oh and of course ending out membership in things like the UN, NATO, WTO, etc.
F) Ended all trade
G) Defaulted on all debts (For the next reason).
H) Set the dollar value on something gold or platinum. (Depending which is easier with how much money is in our economy and how much of the stuff we have). This because we would have zero currency exchange with the outside world.
So lets see what sort of results would I expect?
A) Well pretty much every economy in the world would collapse
B) There would be widespread famine in the world
C) Americans would have a short period of hardship while they adjust to the shock, while the stock market recovers from its huge drop.
D) The United States CPI would probably drop, so would GDP. Though I would guess that it would be short lived since the monetary system would be based on a good that we have and the inflation could then be easily controlled.
E) If done this way I doubt we would have all that high of unemployment other than the initial shock.
That is what the world would be like without the United States. With more thought I could probably add quite a bit of detail to this post, but for the moment I’ll just let y’all peruse it.
Editor's Note:
I thought I'd end this thing with a joke: "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'. Need I say more"
This question has been plaguing me for quite some time. It really came to the front of my mind when I stumbled across this page on yahoo: which shows Iran's “Deputy Revolutionary Guards Commander” Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr at a conference titled: “The world without America”.
Strangely enough when drafting this post I came across this webpage. So it’s Rush, I don’t really care for the guy all that much but the page does sum up things somewhat well.
Now for a Gedankenexperiment .
Lets say the United States were to implement the following policy tomorrow:
A) All ships in port have 24 hours to leave or else be seized if not ported in the United States.
B) All ships from that point that enter the United States waters would be seized.
C) All arriving foreign nationals would be screened to determine if it is the best interests of the United States to remain.
D) Reduce flights in and out of the United States to virtually zero. (Eventually after all citizens outside of the Unite States had a chance to return).
E) Evicted the UN from their HQ. Give them 24 hours to comply before all records are seized (Although from an intelligence stand point it would be better to have a false fire alarm and not let any of those evacuated back to the premises). Oh and of course ending out membership in things like the UN, NATO, WTO, etc.
F) Ended all trade
G) Defaulted on all debts (For the next reason).
H) Set the dollar value on something gold or platinum. (Depending which is easier with how much money is in our economy and how much of the stuff we have). This because we would have zero currency exchange with the outside world.
So lets see what sort of results would I expect?
A) Well pretty much every economy in the world would collapse
B) There would be widespread famine in the world
C) Americans would have a short period of hardship while they adjust to the shock, while the stock market recovers from its huge drop.
D) The United States CPI would probably drop, so would GDP. Though I would guess that it would be short lived since the monetary system would be based on a good that we have and the inflation could then be easily controlled.
E) If done this way I doubt we would have all that high of unemployment other than the initial shock.
That is what the world would be like without the United States. With more thought I could probably add quite a bit of detail to this post, but for the moment I’ll just let y’all peruse it.
Editor's Note:
I thought I'd end this thing with a joke: "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'. Need I say more"
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