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Originally posted by alarikf:
Forgive the rant, but ...

apart from that there are long term economicaly harms coused by the actual goverment of the USA to your country: in Last years the number of scientific publications, awards and patent registration falls back (there are many reasons for this fact founded on failures in politics). if this trend won't broken in next few years USA are not longer the technological precursor as in Last decades. this fact combined with a HUGE military budget that grows in same time ...

think on Soviet Union collapse. i see parallels in long term.