Dean Kalahar is a Sarasota, Florida high school economics teacher. On his blog, he says his guiding principles include private property rights, free market entrepreneurial capitalism and the U.S. Constitution.
Kalahar recently brought attention to the new Florida high school senior exit exam, which he says will “indoctrinate children into a progressive and revisionist model critical of America.”
So, the USA is an empire? Empires are characterized by exploiting the conquered or dominated, by the imperium enriching itself at the expense of the subjects, if not in absolute terms then in relative.
Well, some empire we turned out to be. Seems that everyone else is getting rich at our expense. This chart shows the balances and nature of American imports compared to exports.
"Everything going out is raw goods. Everything coming in is finished" (source). So the US exports raw materials that our imperial subjects use to make things we want to buy. That is, they take relatively low-value American products, add value and then sell them back to us at a higher price. More of our money flows to the "empire" than flows in. The rest of the world gets rich at our expense. Yet we are the seat of empire!
Stupid Americans - don't even know how to run an empire....
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