USA And The Future Of The World -II

[dhu]

[url="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/workplace/144903/a_foreign_tourist_tipped_me_a_buck_for_being_american_..._what_does_that_say_about_our_empire/?obref=obinsite"]A Foreign Tourist Tipped Me a Buck for Being American ... What Does that Say About Our Empire?[/url]

So here we are, an stretched-out empire whose credit card is just about maxed out, populated by a people happy to spend a fortune spreading "democracy" to other countries while becoming ever more impoverished themselves. And here comes a former subject of our neocolonial reign slipping a greasy buck into my palm. It's just kind of telling.



And perhaps I should take heart about all this. After all, we don't really make anything, and selling each other houses, suing one another and trading our debt back and forth doesn't seem quite as attractive an economic model as it did just a few short years ago. But, you know, this is America, and I'm pretty sure we still make the best damn puppies in the world.



\Who knows? Maybe this photo-op-for-a-buck deal will become The Next Big Thing.