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On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:01:07 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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It works as long as people continue to buy our bonds at an interest
rate we can afford. The future of that is uncertain too.

Well, yeah, the future is uncertain. That's not going to change. You can
base your life around fear and live in a hole in the ground or you can
plan
for the worst and expect better.


I am certainly a lot more concerned about the economy than I am about
global warming.

Unfortunately, they are tightly related and will be even more so in the
future.