[BubbaTheRocketScientist]

Yes, but at the rate we're running up trade and budget deficits, the U.S. dollar is not exactly a strong long-term bet, either.

Going against the productivity and ingenuity of the American worker, the American entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy as a whole is a sucker bet. I've only been to one place in the world where people on the street are more rabidly capitalist than we are here.

[Alberta's Child]

Going against the productivity and ingenuity of the American worker, the American entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy as a whole is a sucker bet.

I've been doing it for three years now, and I'm quite pleased with the results.

Not that I'm betting against the productivity and ingenuity of the American worker, mind you -- but against the financial acumen and fiscal discipline of the American government.