From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , Gary Britt
 wrote:
>Americans wealth continues to be the best in the world.  We have the highest
>disposable income in the world.  The dollar going lower is just the market
>mechanism for balancing trade.  We give the world pieces of paper and they
>give us *real* stuff.

... an increasing number of pieces of paper for each piece of stuff. What
happens when you run out of pieces of paper? You can't print more, you
aren't producing enough to convince anyone that they're worth anything. All
you can do is sell the family silver. America, land of the pwned.

>What's good for the USA *IS* good for the world.  That's why there is so
>much envy and jealousy of others about the USA.

Increasingly, people are realising that the USA *isn't* good for the world.
The USA is only good for (to) itself. To individuals looking for a better
life than the ones they have, wherever they are, the USA is a good place to
go. But to those who are quite happy where they are, the USA is a drag on
their standard of living and quality of life. They'd be better off without
the USA's disproportionate drag on the world's resources. Call it envy and
jealousy if you like - either way, it simply illustrates that you aren't as
good for the world as you say.

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