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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DebtBomb who wrote (24470)	11/19/2009 2:51:34 PM
From: GST	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71441

Ironically, our infrastructure is now falling way behind other parts of the world. Without state of the art infrastructure, we cannot compete. When looking at the 'surplus' (and it is a stretch to call it a surplus) we gave priority to private wealth and decided that growing public squalor was of little concern. We have a mid twentieth century transportation system, a mid twentieth century energy system, and a k-12 educational system that is becoming the laughing stock of the advanced industrial nations -- rotting from the bottom up. As for our health care system, it is the least cost effective system in the world. In a word, we have shown no intelligence in managing our commons -- our infrastructure.

To: DebtBomb who wrote (24470)	11/19/2009 3:13:56 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71441

i believe you failed to list the 1.5 trillion plus dollar war a certain moron staged, in addition to the rest of the spending

To: DebtBomb who wrote (24470)	11/19/2009 6:12:18 PM
From: Larry S.	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71441

The surplus was an illusion based on the fraudulent Unified Budget and the deregulation of telecom, which stimulated, with the help of the Greenman, the worse malinvestment binge the world has ever known. The problems were compounded by the elimination of Glass Steagall, which together with help for the Greenman turned Wall Street into Las Vegas East. The saddest part is that this Administration is pushing us further down the hill. Larry