Gentleman, 16 hours ago I was boarding a flight from Melbourne Australia to Dubai, on the wall of the ramp to board the plane was 'Investment advertisements'. The Ads showed a US Dollar bill on a chalk board. The comments from the Aussie 20 somethings a couple places ahead of me were, "They shouldn't even make those anymore! They're only good for sh-t-paper!" and they proceeded to have a chuckle about money US money-printing and a laugh at America's fall from grace.

Hearing that a couple of Aussie 50 somethings behind me all had a comment about what a disaster the USA was. I was the American in a middle and I couldn't say a thing... because they were completely right.

From a position of possibly the highest standing in the world to bad joke in 13 years.

Matt

Jun 7, 2014