The $ is very heavily propped up courtesy of more than a bit of goodwill from some parts of the world. The yanks do have a lot of national debt and without the sub for their currency, a sub which some think is not fair and should be shared among other currencies, their economy and the lifestyle they take for granted might not fair so well. They need to be encouraged to drag themselves out of the gutter which some of them aspire to and which puts them on the very same pedestal of shame as Gaddafi's Libya of April 1984. Shame on all concerned ... you are not smart and you bring disgrace on the vast majority of decent Americans.