ergo sum you are either easily confused or really like red herring but I am not sure where you get " first you say there is no inflation" uh, gas, food, medical, college, commodities, precious metals, have gone up up up for the last 12 years while bubbles in the stock market and real estate have gone boom and bust with speculator banks flooding the easy money to one place or another. The Bond Bubble will bust at some point and when the U.S. can't borrow at nil percent we will see how it goes. The value of the U.S. Dollar has gone down over 96% since 1913 and that would not be so bad if we had a fair market system instead of the crony capitalism keptocracy where the big money makes the rules and takes over more and more above the law,,,while we hold the bag.
"The great illusion of the system, though, is that ANY group of average people ever actually wields any power. The truth is, big governments are always operated by very small and exclusive clubs of root beneficiaries out of the sight of the population.
The smaller this dominant group becomes, the more corrupt and criminal the government generally is."
let's see what was on the teleprompter in 2006 ......
Senator Barack Obama - March 2006
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America'a debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies...Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that the "buck stops here". Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today unto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better".