The Destroying of America Through It's Monopoly

If the United States has a monopoly of digital technology, what is it doing to the rest of our economy?
In the last class, the first history group mention how in the 16th century that the Spanish had a great monopoly of metals. It was such a huge monopoly that the rest of their agriculture and industries declined. They had to start importing wheat, clothing etc because all their efforts were concentrated on the one thing...metals.

How is that like today? Will this happen to our country? Well let me tell you, it already has. We import almost everything. All the best cars, all our clothing, even food is imported from all over the world. There are some farms still standing but it seems like the government is even trying to destroy them. For example some of the major farms in California were made into dust bowls because they government wanted to protect an endangered species (a fish) and stop all irrigation routes, which they did stop many. It put many people out of work and less produce and agriculture in our own country.

Here is an article on the subject. The government is going too far and trying to control everything. Well I'm sorry to inform you, but they just can't and if they try it will create more mess. http://biggovernment.com/spoizner/2010/05/20/california-water-shortage-exposes-big-government-run-amok/

The more this happens, the more we have no reliance on our own country. If we went to war with the country we bought the majority of our produce from, we would starve, same is if we went to war against china, we would have no clothes. The government is trying to save an endangered species and yet they are risking our species instead? Something seems wrong here.

The US is just booming with technology and information that the whole world wants to be apart of but if we keep that our main focus, our country will suffer as the Spanish did with their government and economy eventually being destroyed.

There are many factors that contribute to this. Control of government, information of technology and lack of the desire for self sustainability.

We seem like such a successful country, but what is it really doing to our true economic stance? Are they just brain washing us to believe that we can rely heavily on other countries forever for our goods we purchase? There needs to be some line drawn.