How to Destroy the United States Without a Shot

Stop for a moment and imagine Chicago as the source for everything produced in the supermarket. All of the food goes through Chicago. Then imagine that every home is built at some point in Atlanta. Then consider that everything that gets cleaned in the country at one point or another has to go through one of those two cities.

Then imagine the Chicago and Atlanta metropolitan areas gone; disowned by the United States.

Instantly, five percent of the US economy is pulled out of the equation at the consumer level. The effect at the production level is over fifty per cent for housing, food and service industries. Transportation grinds to a halt, as there is nothing to haul.

Prices for food and housing triple overnight; the loss of consumers does not add enough slack in the system to account for the lack of production.

Americans stop buying homes. Fuel costs rise because the scarce goods that need to be transported still have to go the same distances to Miami and Seattle. A lack of finished products causes riots. Poor access to fresh fruits and vegetables allows disease to run rampant in remote corners of the lower 48 states.

Food riots break out in Boston, St. Louis and Denver. Thousands perish while stalking deliveries at warehouses in Detroit and Minneapolis. Truckers abandon their careers as a hellish Road Warrior mentality strikes the Interstates, and armed gangs attack trucks containing corn flakes and oranges.

Two million truckers are out of work. Wal Mart abandons rural areas, and greeters in Birmingham are strapped with semi-automatic pistols. Five million people who worked in retail are now seeking public assistance as their jobs went away with Chicago and Atlanta.

Now we're up to 21 million. Banking and investments are slipping, putting another two million out of the private sector. Automotive production grinds to a near standstill, idling another two million in the myriad facets of that industry.

Declining tax revenues decimate the federal budget, and the armed services are forced to serve as trainers for despotic regimes worldwide who are willing to part with finished goods. Some countries remember us as a friend, but most are happy to see us fall.

Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals abandon our shores for Europe, Australia and the far east. Another ten million are gone or underemployed. Our highway system, once the envy of the world, becomes a series of potholes connected with patches.

Construction becomes a memory of better times, and eight million more are idled in New York and San Francisco, and everywhere else. Government jobs which once seemed stable and secure dry up in this atmosphere.

As a last ditch effort to save the country, California is sold to the People's Republic of China as a trade for outstanding debt going into default. Texas is returned to Mexico, and most of the Midwest is returned to France.

The south splinters off as a New Confederacy, before an eventual alliance with Canada and the Commonwealth. Florida and Puerto Rico are merged with the New Bolivarian Union under Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales.

Imagine Chicago and Atlanta removed from the equation.

Then change the 14 million to illegal aliens who make up a disproportionate part of the production of food and construction industries in the United States.

Who is willing to kill the country in order to save it?