Posted by David Sherman on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 13:19:34 :
In Reply to: Re: cash for clunkers WAS IT FUNDED? posted by Kaegi on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 11:32:14 :
Obama, Clinton, Bush... they all think it's wonderful. They're proud to be "global citizens" rather than "American citizens". I have my doubts about how wonderful it is. China's got us by the short-n-curlies, but we have them by theirs too.
They squeeze ours, and we squeeze theirs. If they stop lending us money, we stop buying their stuff and selling them food, and they have a billion people rioting. On the other hand, if we stop buying their stuff, they stop lending us money, and our economy looks like Zimbabwe in a few years. It's "mutual assured destruction" without the mushroom clouds. At least for now.
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