USA the Next Zimbabwe?

The Governor of South Carolina has raised concerns that the USA is going the way of the African nation of Zimbabwe:

S.C. governor evokes Zimbabwe in arguments against stimulus

CNN – March 11, 2009

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) — The United States faces a Zimbabwe-style economic collapse if it keeps “spending a bunch of money we don’t have,” South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Wednesday.

Sanford, a Republican, has been an outspoken critic of the Obama administration’s $800 billion stimulus plan. He said he’ll turn down about a quarter of his state’s $2.8 billion share unless Washington lets him use that money to pay down debt.

“What you’re doing is buying into the notion that if we just print some more money that we don’t have and send it to different states, we’ll create jobs,” he said. “If that’s the case, why isn’t Zimbabwe a rich place?”

Zimbabwe has been in the throes of an economic meltdown ever since the southern African nation embarked on a chaotic land reform program. Its official inflation rate topped 11 million percent in 2008, with its treasury printing banknotes in the trillion-dollar range to keep up with the plummeting value of its currency.

But with South Carolina’s unemployment rate now the second-highest in the country, state lawmakers will attempt to override Sanford and take the $700 million if he turns it down, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said.

“They will use the total economic stimulus to stimulate the economy, jump-start it, so we can get out of the ditch we are in as a state and as a nation,” Bauer, a fellow Republican, said in a written statement Wednesday.

Labor Department figures released Wednesday showed South Carolina’s January unemployment rate hit 10.4 percent, second only to Michigan’s 11.6 percent.

Sanford is one of several Republican governors who have criticized the nearly $800 billion stimulus package, which passed with minimal GOP support in the Senate and none in the House of Representatives. Other governors, such as California Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger or Michigan Democrat Jennifer Granholm, have said they would take any money Republican-led states reject. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/11/stimulus.sanford/

There are many differences between the USA and Zimbabwe. But the one I would like to emphasize is that the USA is not just printing up more money, it is also borrowing a lot of money.

Zimbabwe does not appear to be biblically prophesied to be taken over and having its citizens be made slaves because it is printing up money.

The USA, however, is biblically prophesied to be taken over and having its citizens be made slaves because of its sins (James 4:16-17), its hypocrisy (Isaiah 10:5-6, KJV; John 9:41), and its debt (Habakkuk 2:3,6-8). And, unlike Zimbabwe, the USA is the most indebted nation in the history of the world.

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