To: Richnorth who wrote (84804 ) 4/27/2002 4:39:29 AM From: d:oug Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116822 Richnorth, "...is believable? US economy grew..." (or) That saying "The fall is not what hurts, its that sudden stop when you hit the floor." American's can believe whatever makes them feel good and safe, and since the United States is THE super power on planet Earth, American's can pump-up themselves with that sandwhich or hamburger-man of an 1940s-1950s cartoon i remember seeing on black&white t.v. when i was a child where this portly man would always try and borrow from friends money to buy more hamburg eats with an "I'll pay you back tomorrow." yes, but it seemed each tomorrow he spent all his cash and still wanted more burgers to eat and asked for more money from friends with that "Pay you back tomorrow." to happen it seemed each day after day without any day him paying back anyone. (or) Today's America eats and eats on credit card after credit cards playing musicial chairs. "...is believable? US economy grew..." Yes in that this cartoon man each day grew from all those burgers with Russ's pepperjack cheese and a tomatoe to make it into a health food :o) so yes it's believable, or better put USA's growth charged to a credit card soon to be max'ed out with that vicious circle of having no more credit, no more buying, no more jobs from no more buying companies product, with the only "feeding" being that where one feeds upon oneself until one only has a mouth and teeth left with nothing left to feed into it. Now i'am of a nature to learn and then discard learn'ed stuff, for example inflation, deflation and that stagflation to describe an economy out of correctness, so what will happen if an recession into a deep depression occures and folks lose jobs and savings and crushes the USA economy, what happens when no one has savings or income to buy buy buy and at the same time all those US dollars Fed Greenspam pumped out still exist someplace not in outer space ? or, trying to make sense out of nonsense Gata Bill's Cafe has had a ton of articles on money creation, and everyone has a story different except for the ending while each ending was different the nature of the_end was the same bad moon a'raising on the usa a.k.a. planet earth does a crash & burn and unlike those of the past clubs, bow & arrow, small arms this time weapons of nuke, chem, bio here there everywhere as rule of law replaced with rule of force or glad i have no children d:o(ug