Has America peaked?

[Platypus]

you never know when you're at the peak; only at the base.

[Platypus]

Colin-we don't have enough room for enough people to be the next america; we're mainly desert. Add Global Warming making even more desert and getting rid of all our drinking water, and we probably couldn't sustain more then about another 10 million peaople, despite our size :S

The next big thing will be China, but I reckon it'll be co-best thing, with the USA, if you know what I mean :S

[Platypus]

the US immigration policies don't quite compare to the White Australia Policy, where immigration officials were allowed to ask questions in any european language to determine if arivals would be allowed to enter. Famus examples include an immigration official asking a Czech questions in Scottish Gaelic, and a whole boat of Cypriots questions in Danish.

When the policy was being debated in the late 1950s, the socially ultra-conservative leader of the LP (I forget his name now, Evatt I think) famously said on the topic of asian immigration in parliament (probably the most famous thing ever said in Australian parliament) "Two wongs don't make a white". The Liberals were no better at the time of course, but I'm sill pissed at the ALP for having that kind of drongo as party leader.