Perhaps with Americans loosing their jobs, medical costs at record highs, the housing situation along with the high gasoline and food prices, the people are just plain tapped out of extra money which they would normally donate.

Things have gotten much worse off for many Americans in the last 4 years. I haven’t heard to much about the Bush bull about how great our economy has been lately either, even though it wasn’t. Maybe it is finally dawning in the nimrods in the W.H. we are broke, money wise, are well as broke on a multitude of over levels thanks to this misguided administration and it’s waste of borrowed money on it’s illegal wars. There are no more places to cut our expenses back as many of us are not even getting bare bone necessities now and many more are just about to that level. In other words the buck stopped here a long time ago. Perhaps if things had been as rosy as Bush kept lying about since in office, we all would have good paying jobs and all the necessities and lots of extra money in which we could again donate to the rest of the world when these things occur. But, unfortunately most of the population lives in REALITY, unlike those in government.

As those in the political life and big corps. are the ones with all the money, I am certain they would not mind picking up the slack that the average American can no longer afford to do, besides they can use it for those huge tax right-offs they take advantage of all the time.

Is it because American’s are feeling a lot more broke now?  Or is that so many of us now see China as an enemy...again?

I’ve heard unconfirmed rumblings that the Chinese are calling in IOU’s we’ve written, and we’re ignoring them. (I’ve heard the same rumors about France.) The American people don’t really need to donate any money to help the Chinese...we just have to pay back what we’ve borrowed.

Fat chance.