hold almost 40% of our national debt decide to liquidate then you will see the dollar nosedive. Hey, this just a small price to pay to allow the koreans and others get ahead of us in stemcell research, to put a couple of religious zealots on the Supreme Court and allow every gun nut to have as many AK-47's as he can afford. Remember the good old days when the sex scandals at least involved a woman? Gas was a buck a gallon back then also.