I received my $600 Chinese loan today and I immediately stimulated British Petroleum with $52 "hardly earned" dollars.  As I have no offspring myself, I'd like to personally thank the kind reader's present and future grandchildren for repaying this unsolicited payment to me as its seems unlikely that any serious effort to pay off our crippling national debts will occur in my lifetime.

While I also plan to stimulate the local tire dealer before winter, I can't help but feel I'm part of a larger shell game.  I get a few hundred bucks, the dear reader gets a few hundred bucks, the top 1 percent get billions in tax cuts.  Thousands of homes are in foreclosure; the corporations that created the mess received billions in payouts and the CEOs maintained their million dollar salaries.

Mr. Obama needs to be quite vocal in pointing out that McCain's beloved tax "cuts" without spending cuts are simply tax deferments payable by the middle and lower classes.  Reagan's voodoo economics state that massive tax cuts benefiting primarily the wealthy will increase government revenues so much that what logically would result in a deficit will magically produce a surplus.  Mr. Obama, I beseech you, have your fine, efficient staff produce a simple graph that shows how voodoo economics has produced $200 billion (or more) annual deficits every year under Reagan, Bush, and Bush, and that these three presidents are responsible for $7 TRILLION of our $9.5 trillion national debt.  Am I alone in believing that the Piper must be paid?

Normally, I wouldn't accept a check from an institution with such checkered finances, but I figure as long as the Chinese are backing it, I'll accept the check.  Keep your little ones away from soft drinks and fatty foods and provide them with plenty of exercise.  In two or three decades, they'll thank you daily for the added endurance as they work that second or third job.