[MarcoPolo]

Is it a burden to the American people to police the world? No doubt. Is it a crime to have the power to make the world better but instead choose the “not my job” approach?

Just exactly how are we supposed to pay for the job of being the world's policemen? Where is the money going to come from? We already have to borrow heavily to cover the military actions we're taking now, so how in the world could we possibly afford to do any more or even to maintain what we're already doing? In other words it doesn't really matter if we want to be the world's policeman or not because the funds to do it just don't exist.

[George W. Bush]

Where is the money going to come from?

Printing presses at the mints. Nothing to stop them since there is nothing to back the currency anyway.

It's the usual manipulation and devaluation of currency, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve who tunes the interest rates to offset the devaluation.

It's a very sophisticated variation of money devaluation schemes that have been well-known since the Middle Ages in Europe and before.

I'm not certain you can have a global empire without such schemes.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Just exactly how are we supposed to pay for the job of being the world's policemen?

We have puppets to do the work for us: