Walker, who heads the Congressional, nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has offered dire forecasts for the United States in the past. In interviews with 60 Minutes and NPR, he’s said that he believes the US cannot continue to live at such levels of prosperity indefinitely, since much of current prosperity is erected upon debt.“Throughout history, many great nations have also failed to survive,” Walker told an audience in Chicago last week. “I should point out that the longest standing republic and the major superpower of its day no longer exists, and that’s the Roman Republic.”
He warned of “striking similarities” between the current crises facing America and the factors toppled Rome, including “declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government.”
“In my view,” he added, “it’s time to learn from history and take steps to ensure the American Republic is the first to stand the test of time.”
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