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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Raqem, post: 1139266, member: 29288&quot;]I won&#039;t argue that the financial outlook of this country looks grim, but there are enough issues with the article for me to take it with a grain of salt.</p><p><br /></p><p>#3 China&#039;s monetary policy is atrocious.&nbsp; No one will be using the yuan as the new reserve currency any time soon.&nbsp; China&#039;s comments, however, point to this possibility in the distant future.&nbsp; The U.S. needs China to stop undervaluing their currency which is feeding their exports so that our exports have a fighting chance.&nbsp; China wants to starve the world&#039;s exports so that only they have any sort of manufacturing capability left.&nbsp; Once they find themselves in that position they can correctly value their currency which will make it shoot up.&nbsp; However, this is a tricky thing to do and if their past performance is any indication their currency will still be too unstable to be depended on.</p><p><br /></p><p>#8 The U.S. doesn&#039;t spend money evenly throughout the year.&nbsp; Cherry picking February&#039;s numbers and annualizing it over a year is disingenuous at best.</p><p><br /></p><p>#10 Obama never campaigned as the &quot;anti-war president&quot;.&nbsp; That&#039;s what the opposition painted him as.&nbsp; He said from the very beginning that the country &quot;needed to focus on Afghanistan&quot;.&nbsp; Troop deployments overseas in 2008 was over 500,000; it&#039;s currently under 400,000 (so it went down, not up).&nbsp; No U.S. troops are being deployed to Libya, and overall Obama wants to lower military spending (like Clinton did in the 90s which is the only time in recent history we didn&#039;t run a deficit).&nbsp; This point is full of lies, and I&#039;m not even sure how &quot;lying about foreign policy&quot; is directly related to hyperinflation.</p><p><br /></p><p>#11 Obama isn&#039;t redefining what a balanced budget is.&nbsp; Presidents and politicians have been using that same bad definition for decades.&nbsp; Obama is guilty of continuing to use it, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>#12 This isn&#039;t even a point!&nbsp; It&#039;s more predictions disguised as another point.&nbsp; They probably didn&#039;t even think anyone would read this far (unless they fully agreed at which point you could pull a fast one on them).</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said, I&#039;m not saying we&#039;re in a great financial position, but this article has too many obviously incorrect points to let me trust the other points at face value.&nbsp; I would have to research them individually to determine their truthfulness and relevancy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure what the point of the article is.&nbsp; If you&#039;re an innocent bystander who is truly concerned about this issue, wouldn&#039;t you keep this a secret?&nbsp; I would buy up all of the silver while I could at the current price.&nbsp; If I told others they should be hoarding silver that would only make the price go up!&nbsp; However, if I was <i>selling</i> silver then putting this type of article up would be perfect for business.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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