[QUOTE=Paladin;431515]The currency will continue to devalue [strike]against the dollar until it becomes apparent that CFK cannot have a third term.[/strike] If the same economic team stays in place that has exhibited total incompetence in managing an emerging economy, then there will continue be a flight of capital. The embarrassment of the [strike]IMF sanctions[/strike] credit rating downgrade will be downplayed locally while the world looks on in disbelief at the incompetent management of the [strike]Argentine[/strike] US economy. Some one must finally say that the "emperor has no clothes" [strike]CFK[/strike] Obama is all show and no go and his sycophants are uneducated or delusional ideologues with utopian ideas that were discounted 60 years ago. [strike]Argentina[/strike] The USA is caught in a time warp with no foreseeable away out of this economic quagmire. Social programs are great if you have the money to pay for them. You see absolutely no real effort to stimulate the economy. There is a government acceptance of underemployment and no incentive to educate the [strike]Argentine[/strike] American youth for the 21st Century economy. Giving an uneducated [strike]16[/strike] 18 year-old the right to vote is not the same as giving him / her a relevant education. You might gain votes but ultimately your country goes into the shitter even more.[/quote]All I had to do was change the names and it's now a story about the USA.