your $$$ or your life

I've been poking around looking at our national debt. We need to switch the terms "astronomical numbers" and "economical numbers," as the latter have clearly eclipsed (no pun intended) the former. What ever would we do if Japan and China closed their purses? What would the USA's credit rating be -- is it possible to have a negative score? And yet...

So much for the 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The same companies that are under the gun now -- manufacturing, steel, etc -- are the ones that would be creamed by the reductions, which is a tough call. I understand the point -- it's pricey -- but so are 20 years of mammograms. However, I'd rather lose $4,000 getting my girls repeatedly squished in a machine over the next two decades than lose $800,000, my breasts, and possibly my life because I didn't think long-term. Poor Obama -- he could've done so much if we weren't in a near-depression.