Just words...Just speeches... <br /><br />For a nation to remain a preeminent military power, it must remain a preeminent economic power." <br />"We are borrowing from China non-stop" <br />"You lose respect for people who are like that" <br />"We are a indebted nation that not only makes us more vulnerable, it weakens the dollar, there has never been a country in the world who saw it's economy decline and was able to maintain it's preeminence militarily