Reply #6: After 9/11...

[Lagomorph]

...a lot of people wanted blood for blood.

Now the government has run up the debt to unsustainable levels, and still no Bin Laden. It's interfering with the government the government's ability to move ahead with any sort of domestic agenda.

We're simply broke. China doesn't want anymore dollars, neither does Saudi Arabia. Those two were our biggest lenders.

The whole point of using dollars was that you could get something of value with them. That's changed. They want something they can use, not more paper.

We owe each of them the equivalent of 20,000 new airliners, or we're gonna have a tough time getting anymore loans.