is it true that the U.S. can feed the world 12 times and still have enough money to rise economically?
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Best Answer!\nFascinating, so why don't they feed the poor citizens of the US, stop poverty and starvation, why don't they make the supply of clean water the right of all people.\nThey and other countries make the effort to help the starving and the desperate of the world.
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No, I did not know that.\n\nAs a matter of fact, I believe your thesis is incorrect.  "There is enough / for everyone" as Midnight Oil's song goes.  Of course enough food is produced to end world hunger.  Yet hunger exists -- mostly because of corrupt governmental interference.\n\nMillions of Chinese starved in the so-called Great Leap Forward when Mao screwed his country's agricultural practices.  Hundreds of thousands (or millions) dead in Ethiopia, then Somalia, then North Korea.  Most availed themselves of corrupt governments that allowed their people to simply starve.  The western world has often made humanitarian attempts to help alleviate the suffering of people in those places.  Either the government refuses to acknowledge a problem (China, N Korea) or local militant forces / warlords (Somalia) take the resources for their own.\n\nThat's the way that goes.
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America is currently the largest consumer in the world economy and therefore exerts a lot of influence but no it does not control the world economy.
184756
currently it is 6.5 billion...by 2012 it is expected to reach 7 billion
438997
World hunger - no - it stayed at about the same rate.  Here in the US - it dropped dramatically for a short time, but it's back up again more than ever.
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yes,why not ? \nall u mention are nations that have lot of people who have smart brain and guts.and money can easily find with that 2 resources.so the only matter just time and conscious to manage and channel their resource better .
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It is a possibility.  There are a few countries, including India and China, which are starting to gain in power and strength.  This is a good thing for world stability.  It is unhealthy for one country to be the ultimate superpower and to think it can run the entire world.  Increasing power gains by other countries will challenge the US and "put it in its place."
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I believe it is. America is the richest, most successful country the world has ever known. Everyone envies our freedom and way of life. Every third-world country that doesn't understand the value of life, or the contribution that the individual can make, given the freedom to do it, hates our way of life. That's why all of the oil money in the middle east si so scary. Here are people that are barely out of the stone age, with enough money to purchase whatever they want. Including nuclear weapons. \nI think America, and other like-minded democracies around the world are the only salvation for this world. They have the power, and the STABILITY to keep the nut jobs from blowing us all up!
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The President of the United States currently makes $400,000 per year.
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The U.S. is one of the strongest and largest economy in the world.\n\nThe U.S. is all about Capitalism.\n\nThe U.S. colonizes nothing, just occupies.\n\nWithout the U.S., other economies of the world would suffer.\n\nSometimes the U.S. leads, and sometimes other major economies lead.\n\nBig money controls the world, and don't let anyone tell you differently.\n\nGuns and butter my friend.
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The US's GDP for 2005 was 12,485,725.
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we havent seen a surplus since 1830s. the 'surplus' during clinton was a hoax. he bailed out mexico by having greenspan print up $3.8 billion bounced it off the roof of the treasury into chase manhatten. then bush bought us all off with it at the beginning of his 1st term. right ow the debt is $8,363,454,225,996.54 The estimated population of the United States is 298,676,548 so each citizen's share of this debt is $28,001.71. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.95 billion per day since September 30, 2005! Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House! http://www.eff.org/congress/
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Well yes and no. Long story short it's possible because the US government is selling bonds to other nations, (more like extorting them to buy it, otherwise they will charge a very high tariff on all imports from that country)  and this allows a steady flow of cash into the economy.\n\nThis boom goes on until someone wisens up and demands the loaned money.  At which point, everyone who's borrowed money ends up actually having none, and this cause major and I mean MAJOR chaos.  Think this way, no one has cash. Everyone wants cash. But there is no cash.  Everyone is going to fall down like a domino.\n\nAnyway people call this "depression".  It's a result of living in decadence and buying everything on credit and assuming that tomorrow, your paycheck will be bigger.  Specualtion and greed supplies all the other necessity for a disaster.\n\nI really crammed about 10 books worth of info into a few paragraphs. I hope I got through to you.
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Money alone will not make it GREAT ... Its proven now with U.S.A
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I agree with you... the world probebly produces enough food.... however people starve due to poverty... impovrish countries cannot afford to get the food to their people or bad land like you said!
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yes it helped our nation grow in money and population
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50,000 - 12.2 Billion dollars. There are way too many variables to answer such a broad question.