....."Can I maybe borrow a few bucks???".....Sure you can, that's the point of the story. You can go to Japan and get all you want, under 2%. Pretty good deal if you ask me. She wants to cut that off and she will be borrowing from you, and your job, and your children, etc. Couple of trillion ought to cover it.
If you didn't live through Carter, then you have no idea how bad, "BAD", is.