The article didn't say the US was France, only that we are heading down the same trajectory. And nobody has suggested that everyone will move to singapore. You sound like obama, who is seeingly addicted to use of false alternatives. Do you think our debt and entitlement liability, which are both increasing, are sustainable? Do you think more stimulus, ie pork and patronage, spending is the answer? Do you think raising taxes, as obama wants to do, will make any meaningful dent in our deficits and debt?