Sanger said China regards the US as a "fading world power", a "debtor nation".
He's spot on! We're so low on so many rankings lists in so many categories that Arianna Huffington decided to call her latest book, "Third World America".
It's really heartbreaking and the truth is that the repubs really don't give a damn as long as they get to keep their millions and billions. There aren't enough bridges that can collapse for them to put a penny of their money into infrastructure for this country.
We're crumbling before our very eyes and the people who just voted in the teabaggers don't have the foggiest idea what they just did.