Why Does A Powerful Nation Fall?

You probably know that after 28 years as a volunteer on Maine Public Radio, I was severely reprimanded and eventually dismissed after reading you something out of the Encyclopedia Britannica. I?m about to read to you something else that I recently stumbled on in the Encyclopedia Britannica. I continue to do this because what I read is often interesting, sometimes frightening, and if what I?m about to read doesn?t scare the pants off you, I hope that you will at least find it interesting. I quote here: ?The reasons for the fall of the Roman empire have continued to attract scholarly attention?The burden of an essentially nonproductive capital that drained the empire?s wealth, the growth of a landless proletariat unable to compete with large slave-worked plantations, the debasement of the coinage, the fighting over the succession to the emperorship,? graft, the loss of civic pride, the Chr...
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