Ain't Nobody Going to Keep Their Promises

Great stuff from The Nation.

• Events unfolding this week on the lower end of Manhattan will cancel out all the projects John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been talking about. McCain will have to deal with the home truth that, though he may dig up enough soldier boys for the Middle Eastern wars, there is no money to pay for them. And thanks to the ever-shrinking dollar, other countries are not going to lend us more money to carry them on. We have run out of money: it's time to cut and run.

I regret the insistence on using that last phrase, because it is needlessly baiting an counter-productive. But the central theme is entirely correct.
- posted by john @ 7:15 PM