...no doubt similar to their Great Wall.

Reuters (h/t Drudge)...

U.S. dollar printing is huge risk - China Central Bank adviser

Nov 4 (Reuters) - Unbridled printing of dollars is the biggest risk to the global economy, an adviser to the Chinese central bank said in comments published on Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve unveiled a new round of monetary easing.

China must set up a firewall via currency policy and capital controls to cushion itself from external shocks, Xia Bin said in a commentary piece in the Financial News, a Chinese-language newspaper managed by the central bank.

"As long as the world exercises no restraint in issuing global currencies such as the dollar -- and this is not easy -- then the occurrence of another crisis is inevitable, as quite a few wise Westerners lament," he said.

"..a few wise Westerners lament".

Thanks! for noticing.

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Silly Democrats. Growing government doesn't solve economic problems.

The $814 Billion Democrat Stimulus plan was supposed to create jobs, jobs, jobs and keep our unemployment rate under 8%. Instead, the money found it's way to Democrat cronies, including the Unions, who will always work to support more Democrats, and unemployment has surged to 10%. In Nevada, home of Harry Reid, unemployment is 15%. And growing. 

Unions are failing the Democrats. The far-left NYT doesn't think the rank and file of the Unions are as staunch as their leadership. Despite spending millions more than the Chamber of Commerce, their efforts aren't producing the expected results this cycle...

The giant union of government workers, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is promising to spend a record $66 million this year on get-out-the-vote efforts, voter education and political advertisements. That includes $16 million that the union recently took out of an emergency fund, and it comes on top of $21 million it spent last year, mainly on state and local races. The union says it has spent $17 million on broadcast advertisements so far this year.

Reflecting a growing dispute between unions and the Chamber of Commerce, the public employees’ union is arguing that its campaign spending this year is less than the Chamber’s $75 million, even though the union has spent $87 million over the two-year election cycle.

One thing you can be sure of, bank your unemployment check on, you Union members: Democrats ALWAYS want more Government. Businesses who pay your bloated salaries don't like Democrats, and won't hire when Democrats are in control. How's that Democrat plan working out for you, Union out-of-worker ?

John Thune (R-SD), in a hard-hitting GOP Weekly Address, speaks to Americans who will listen.

"Government cannot be openly hostile to American businesses, and expect them to grow and create jobs."

Where have I heard that before? And just who are these people in businesses who are thwarting the will of the 'President of the Grand Speechifying and the Twitching Legs' Barack Obama?

John Galt, maybe ?

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Yes, goads, tiny bits of metal with which to flay the skin.

This, from the NYT's loathsome Frank Rich, telling Obama his 'time' is up November 2...

The Up-or-Down Vote on Obama’s Presidency

At last he mobilized his rhetoric against a villain everyone could hiss — insurance companies. In a brief address, he mentioned these malefactors of great greed 13 times.

There was only one problem. This finest hour arrived hastily and tardily. At 1:45 p.m. Eastern time, who was watching? Of those who did watch or caught up later, how many bought the president’s vow to finish the job “in the next few weeks”? We’ve heard this too many times before. Last May Obama said he would have a bill by late July. In July he said he wanted it “done by the fall.” The White House’s new date for final House action — specified as March 18 by Robert Gibbs, the press secretary — is already in jeopardy.

And failing with a full majority of Democrats on-board to boot. What is the problem? Where did Obama go wrong?

Why, he went wrong when he crossed the line to the far Left, expecting Americans to willingly follow his fife of CHANGE, bringing along a group of warty politicos no one could stand. Van Jones, for instance; no real American wanted a self-confessed communist and America-hater on call in the White House. At least with Obama, that sentiment is nuanced enough to keep tucked away. For now.

More Frank Rich :

“They are waiting for us to act,” Obama said on Wednesday of the American people. “They are waiting for us to lead.” Actually, they have given up waiting. Some 80 percent of the country believes that “nothing can be accomplished” in Washington, according to an Ipsos/McClatchy poll conducted a week ago. The percentage is just as high among Democrats, many of whom admire the president but have a sinking sense of disillusionment about his ability to exercise power.

Not even a hint of a nod to those of us, the 'teabaggers', who have rallied and lit fires under our representatives and forced them to reconsider their positions or, better, to hit the door (so long, Bart Gordon, you asshole!). BHO has lead us, Frank Rich; he's lead us to the point where we are actively opposing his destructive policies of CHANGE. There would be no tea parties without boatloads of bad tea.

Finishing up Insufferable One, Frank Rich...

Now that we have finally arrived at the do-or-die moment for Obama’s signature issue, we face the alarming prospect that his presidency could be toast if he doesn’t make good on a year’s worth of false starts. And it won’t even be the opposition’s fault. If too many Democrats in the House defect, health care will be dead. The G.O.P. would be able to argue this fall, not without reason, that the party holding the White House and both houses of Congress cannot govern.

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This time Obama doesn’t have a year to arrive at his finest hour. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the clock runs out on Nov. 2.

It can't come soon enough.

MORE! From an overseas newspaper (one that's, you know, believable)...

The end of the road for Barack Obama?
Barack Obama seems unable to face up to America's problems, writes Simon Heffer in New York.

It is a universal political truth that administrations do not begin to fragment when things are going well: it only happens when they go badly, and those who think they know better begin to attack those who manifestly do not. The descent of Barack Obama's regime, characterised now by factionalism in the Democratic Party and talk of his being set to emulate Jimmy Carter as a one-term president, has been swift and precipitate. It was just 16 months ago that weeping men and women celebrated his victory over John McCain in the American presidential election. If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons.

Despite the efforts of some sections of opinion to talk the place up, America is mired in unhappiness, all the worse for the height from which Obamania has fallen. The economy remains troublesome. There is growth – a good last quarter suggested an annual rate of as high as six per cent, but that figure is probably not reliable – and the latest unemployment figures, last Friday, showed a levelling off. Yet 15 million Americans, or 9.7 per cent of the workforce, have no job. Many millions more are reduced to working part-time. Whole areas of the country, notably in the north and on the eastern seaboard, are industrial wastelands. The once mighty motor city of Detroit appears slowly to be being abandoned, becoming a Jurassic Park of the mid-20th century; unemployment among black people in Mr Obama's own city of Chicago is estimated at between 20 and 25 per cent. One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the President – told me of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to be unable to solve he economic problem among his own people. Cities in the east such as Newark and Baltimore now have drug-dealing as their principal commercial activity: The Wire is only just fictional.

Whoa! This is some powerful stuff, I'm thinking coming out as a goad to spur Barack and some Democrats to do things even more ill-conceived than they've already done: to lurch left, ignoring the voice of those who oppose that direction, over our loud objections.

How can Obama and his staff, and the democrats in the House and Senate and their staffs, read things like these two articles and not feel pressured? No one likes to fail, especially the vainglorious.

Watch for desperation moves. Who knows? maybe another new conference with fake doctors and their lab coats.

Because, you know Obama can't take this sort of whupping without another (prime time) response.

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Finally, today, front-page New York Times headlines breaks the news to the unbelieving Left:

Huge Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power

Projections suggest there is virtually no room over the next decade for new domestic initiatives for President Obama or his successors.

There's the dagger in the Democrat's unwieldy and expensive Health Care plans. That remarkably grim line should stop Cap and Trade in it's tracks.

And how are Democrats ever going to get elected when they cannot promise new goodies to their base? What incentives will they have to offer now? No more promises of free lunches for Democrat voters! How will the Democrat Party survive?

From The Daily Caller...

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag didn’t exactly sound bullish about the prospects for health care reform when asked Monday how its passage, or non passage, would factor into the federal budget deficit.

“It’s a very small share of the more than $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction [over 10 years] that’s contained in the budget,” Orszag said, noting that he had factored in about $100 billion over the next 10 years as savings from a health care bill.

Orszag appeared to be downplaying the impact on the deficit – projected to be $1.6 trillion this year and about $9 trillion over the next decade – if health care does not pass. White House staff pushed back hard Monday against such a characterization, and pointed to numerous statements by Orszag saying that he thinks health care will pass the Congress.
But that looks increasingly unlikely. In any event, the $100 billion toward deficit reduction is only one of several items in President Obama’s budget that the White House says will cut down the nation’s budget imbalance, but which very likely might not happen.

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security entitlement costs are growing without any new sources of funding. Those programs will, worst-case, fail completely; at best, they will have to be slashed and gutted.

Oh, and China's already said that the U.S. fiscal policy of "I'll pay you next Wednesday for a burger I'll eat today" borrowing methodologies, well, stink, and won't be workable much longer. We can't continue masquerading as a World Super Power whilst continually rattling the tin cup.

My friends, we, the nation, made up of us, the citizens of the United States of America, are broke. And we simply can't afford any more new spending sprees by Democrats. OR Republicans. Existing spending programs must be gutted, and our standard of living will plummet.

It's over.

Do you think our new overlords will let us keep our air conditionings?