[Gunslingr3]

I smell a whiff of confusion between the budget and trade deficits.

Where do you think the Chinese get the money to buy Treasuries with?

Trade deficits are not a problem in and of themselves, combine them with a profligate government and a foreign government willing and able to vacuum up the surplus and buy the profligate government's debt and you have a problem brewing...

[1rudeboy]

This may come as a newsflash to you, but the Chinese have money. Don't buy your urinal cakes from them, if you wish. It won't make a damn bit of difference.

Good Lord, and God help us . . . it appears that few see the real problem.