The economic hammer will fall when other countries come to the opinion that holding onto dollars is too risky an investment for the near term and either stop loaning us trade dollars or start dumping their dollar holdings. If our creditors believe that we're mismanaging our economy, it could make their money managers plenty nervous.

swift boat guys . . . will they ever get over the fact that their own country misled them and the American people about the Vietnam war and wasted many of their generation? Let's hope we don't have another generation in their shoes ever again.