Rick House, It's politics and MONEY

Submitted by Infidel (Canada), Sep 12, 2006 at 16:23

Your closing statement that it's all just politics, is only half correct. The other half, that you didn't mention is, what else, but MONEY.

According to some data, the USA is running a trade deficit of 9 trillion dollars plus and recorded a deficit of 68 billion dollars in July. The most frightening situation is not Iran's nuclear agenda but that the USA may in fact be bankrupt. Should that be the case, the world is in the greatest peril since the Soviet Union tried to ship missiles to Cuba in the early 1960's. Should China or India change from the dollar to the Euro, the USA economy would collapse and the world would be in the greatest jeopardy since the Cuban crisis.

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