borrowed money and valium

POLITICAL ECONOMY .. Commentary: … Boom to bust … by Arnaud De BorchgraveWashington DC (UPI) Apr 04, 2008 … EXCERPTED …

Borrowing $2 billion to $3 billion a day from other countries to maintain the world's highest standard of living, based on conspicuous consumption, in an age of growing world shortages, while fighting two wars whose costs will soon ring up a $1 trillion tab, is tantamount to living on borrowed time.

Valium and Tylenol sales are up, and Viagra down, in the banking world. So far, the subprime tsunami has wiped out half a trillion dollars from the books of major financial institutions in the United States and Europe.

Does it not surprise you just a little bit that “we” are viewed by the rest of people on this planet called – earth – as nothing more than a “paper-tiger,” an emperor ruling a diminishing empire wearing no clothes…?

As Tibet is subjected to inhumane treatment of its citizens by China, all “we” can do as reputedly the single most dominant “super” power on the face of this planet, is cower in the corner lest China immediately quit propping up our “unsustainable” economy.

Our vaunted “super” power status like our economy is a joke and the joke is on us.

Wash down a couple of Valium with a drink of alcohol and everything looks A-OK, doesn’t it…?