[quote=markmax33] I REPEAT the only candidate that has a shot at balancing the budget and stopping us from becoming Greece is Ron Paul.[/quote]

Mark: I’m as conservative as they come and I am all for fiscal prudence and getting “one’s house in order”, but I’m getting ever more irritated with the odious comparisons between the US and Greece.

We are not Greece, there is NO worry that we will become Greece and the oft-repeated meme about how we’re about to follow the Greeks down the shitter is demonstrably false in a wide variety of ways.

To keep it simple, let’s just focus on two. First, Greece does NOT have the option of borrowing in her own currency, unlike the US, which does.

Second, Greece does NOT hold the power over the world’s reserve currency, the US dollar, which the US does. For better or worse, we essentially control that particular spigot and that doesn’t appear to change anytime soon.

I’ll throw a third one out there as well. In spite of the fact that things are dire now and we’re governed by feckless ideologues (the GOP) and bumbling appeasers (no, not the French, the Dems), the US remains the world’s most powerful economy and that also is not likely to change soon, all claims about China’s rise to the contrary. While our situation is dire, it is not irreversible, nor are our problems insoluble. Greece’s situation, on the other hand, is far, far worse and is unlikely to get better anytime soon, if at all.