Lenin once famously pronounced that: “When we hang the last capitalist it will be with a rope that he sold us.”
With China and Wal Mart I’d like to say that when we finally hang ourselves we’ll buy the Chinese-made rope at Wal Mart.
Agreed. But IMO, government debts without sustainable revenues (manufacturing) have already gone too far. ...might be a good time to become more self-sufficient (gardening, food preservation, items for repairs, tools for making parts, etc.).