The stimulus checks are being drawn on a credit line from China. If American consumers are paying off debt with the checks, that's great, but they will still have the same overall debt burden.

The interviewee said it best herself.

Get over yourself.

Some posters here seem to be clinging to the long discredited idea that is no difference between men and women. In fact, there are vast biological differences. There are hormonal differences that affect brain development, and result in different behavioral and cognitive differences. Source: Scientific American May 2002:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00018E9D-879D-1D06-8E49809EC588EEDF

"In America

I routinely see 4 year-olds wheeled about in strollers the size of Suburbans.

"Little Emperor" syndrome isn't exclusively Chinese." -Juliebird

In an article that is entirely unrelated the America, you somehow still find a way to criticize us. Ever wonder where people get the idea that you hate America?

It seems weird to me too that people in the more advanced economies seem to be trending away from modern and towards rustic. The symptoms are everywhere. 50's through 80's modern is sleek and new, and now since the early 90's the closest we have is "contemporary" which is a code word for lathe cut and factory created shabby chic.

My theory is that it has to do with how people perceive the future, vs. how they perceive the past. With the decline in spending power among the middle and lower classes, people are beginning to fear the future. At the same time, they are looking back to an earlier era when times were better.

It is a great way for the Clinton campaign to put "Obama" and "Muslim" in the same sentence all over the press. Then they get to take credit for "firing" that volunteer. What a sham!

Romney made the right move, and I suspect that his poll numbers will see a small spike for it. Meanwhile, he will receive criticism from the Mexico First crowd, like bebop-o above. And all I have to say to him is: "Go tell it to the vast numbers of unemployed and underpaid blacks in the District of Columbia." If those landscaping companies paid a fair wage, there would be no shortage of Americans to take the work. And if Illegals were not allowed to take these jobs, the employers would have to pay that fair wage instead of simply pocketing extra profits like they do right now.

Liberia has a line of silver bullion coins that all depict Harley Davidson motorcycles. For the low price of $40, you get $14 worth of silver. Minted and sold by the Franklin mint with a token payment sent back to Liberia.

Much of what blacks perceive as racism is just the same mean behavior that we all face from our fellow human beings. The police are paid to arrest and harass us. The government is screwing the whole of the American people for their own personal glorification. Prosecutors go after every case with vigor and a desire to win regardless of innocence. The guy working at the gas station is a jerk and he gives dirty looks to everybody. People are filled with rage behind the wheel, and cut us off, and give us the finger. The government forms are designed to trip you up. The insurance company denies claims for anybody that they can deny. We all get overcharged by plumbers. Old people give dirty looks to everybody who plays loud music in their cars.

It is easy for blacks to see those things as racism directed at them, because they are not able to step into white shoes and see that the system is hard and mean to everybody.

This is just another sad example of how much power has been granted to those who claim to be "offended." A hundred's of year old tradition is subservient not just to those offended, but the tradition is being put down because of there mere fear of offending. Are we ever going to overcome the PC patrol, or are we going to become a society of offended victims?

Kill yourself Droogy. The world has too many people already, and each one is a burden on the environment. We are over the "carrying capacity" of the planet, and you are just one too many people. Think about what a hero you would be if you killed yourself in an environmentally friendly way. Don't use bullets, they burn gunpowder which would only increase your carbon footprint. Use a rope or a knife.

If you think that kids burden the world so much, how do you justify your continuing to live? You were a child once too, should your parents have aborted you instead? If you think so, then off yourself, and stop burdening the environment.

I've been reading Salon.com since the late 90's, back when it was smart. Premium subscriber for 6 years. Back then, Camille Paglia and Andrew Sullivan would write competing articles debating the nuance of an issue. Articles would compete to convince you to be pro/anti slavery reparations and the like. Now we have "Hillary and the six bully boys." Followed by the lightest of lightweight analysis of the debate, much of it pro-Hillary.

Are the audience members plants? Who cares, you (salon.com) are the plant.

And so, I bid you farewell. I'm going to spend my mid-morning break reading slate.com from here on out.

You can try to write me off as just a plant, and you may even believe it. But you are, in fact, wrong. Hillary takes the "light" out of being a Bush-Light candidate. She is pro war, anti-medicinal marijuana, and pro lobbyist (remember "Lobbyists are people too"?). She is everything that we all dislike about W, and Salon is just another cog in the Fox News/Lobbyist/Pharma/Military-Industrial/Anti-Freedom regime that runs both parties.

That is incredible, thank you!