Do you honestly believe that if China called in all the loans they've made to the US that anyone would actually repay them on demand? Yeah, right...It'd be a cold day in H E L L before that one would get repaid and they know it. That's why they keep pouring money into the economy here, hoping to recoup what they've already spent here. Just like the Germans, Japanese and Arabs. Watch the global markets...when one market fluctuates, they all do. Everyone's so much in bed with everyone else that if the US economy tanked the rest of the world would follow and they all know it.
We'd all be screwed, blued an tattooed...United States and every other major player on the world scene. Sucks, but that's how it is.
It's a shame that when Clinton left office, there was a budget SURPLUS and our economy looked good for a change. Look how look it took the current crook to ruin that...
Shee-it, I'm going to get drunk....