From: abelits	Date: November 5th, 2008 05:59 pm (UTC)		(Link)

US has its major recent achievements in:

1. Encouraging rent-seeking and abusive behavior.
2. Gathering ill will from around the world.
3. Being a nice place for development of technology.

By turning (3) into a minefield exploited by (1) it has a good chance to become a very, very bad place for any kind of productive work.