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That certainly seemed to be happening, for a while.

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"No one thinks anything is going to happen to them, until it happens to them, that's the problem. The chances of it happening are skyrocketing," he said.

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I’m calling it the biggest infrastructure spending cycle in American history, happening whether Washington functions or not.

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"The multilateral institutions that were created to try to prevent these things from happening have stopped working. Today, the UN Security Council and the UN no longer function," Lula said.

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“This collapse isn’t happening now. But sooner or later those things always happen.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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