09-28-2008, 05:13 AM
US economy in crisis: How did it come to this?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> As the Senate aide put it after China used a week of American political and economic decline to demonstrate its emergence as a rival power: âTheyâve just put men in space. We canât get 400 congressmen to agree that preventing another depression is a good idea.â<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> As the Senate aide put it after China used a week of American political and economic decline to demonstrate its emergence as a rival power: âTheyâve just put men in space. We canât get 400 congressmen to agree that preventing another depression is a good idea.â<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->