[catfish1957]

I read somewhere else that we had held this position since 1872, displacing Great Britain.

I put the blame on the parasites in DC. Our government's economic policies of wanton spending are letting the chickens come back to roost.

The days of the blank check, and bottomless credit card will end soon. There are going to be a lot of liberal entitlement slugs who are going to be some kind of angry.

[Alberta's Child]

I agree with a lot of Paul's comments here, but all the angst about China's ascension over the U.S. is way overblown.

The flip side of this is that China's population is at least four times larger than ours, so in an age of global commerce and modern telecommunications it's really only a matter of when -- not if -- they supplant the U.S. as the world's largest economy.