"2. You allude to something that few on these boards who hope for American decline realize..If the USA, or the "american empire" collapses, they think Canada will be totally unaffected, and just continue to motor on, business as usual..."

No offense intended, but you must be yet another know-it-all by-product of Canada's failing post-secondary educational system because there is nothing to this effect even mentioned in my above post.

Learn to read.