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Topic: What price "Dollar Diplomacy"?
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Beachcomber
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posted October 09, 2008 09:25 AM
The national debt clock in NYC has run out of digits but our national debt now stands at $10 TRILLION. Can anyone on here visualize a trillion dollars? Now some will find it easy to point the finger at Bush, but he's simply the latest culprit. How long did the federal government think it could spend like there was no tommorow and it not lead to this? Taft first formulated "dollar diplomacy" and it has been applied ever since as our means to "control" the world. The Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after they bled themselves white in WWII, funding and housing the UN. Then Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, every famine in the world, every natural disaster, meddling in Latin America, the future of our nation is sitting in those figures. What is preventing a revolution in this country I do not know. Louis XVI lost his head because of similar financial mismanagement and domestic turmoil while trying to be a "world power". When are people here going to say ENOUGH!  $10 trillion
[ October 09, 2008 09:40 AM: Message edited by: Beachcomber ]
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