Wishful thinking.
Really? I said 50 years from now. let's go back 50 years to 1961. how many people in 1961 would have imagined we'd be arguing on an internet message board from our cell phones while sitting in a Starbucks drive thru in our Prius in 2011? Not many. To believe we couldn't have nanotech or a working sustainable alternative to oil in 50 years, given our rapid technology improvements the last century, would be akin to the patent officer in 1898 saying all the possible inventions had already been patented lol
kick the can down the road."
it's exactly the solution at times like this. You don't want to engage in a currency correction when you're stretched thin militarily, have a pussy in the white house, etc. You want to correct shit in Spring 2001. But since that isn't an option, you weather the storm, rebuild, and deal with it when youre in a better position.
Tell me, let's say you've been getting your ass beaten down in a bar fight, you're piss drunk, and you have a broken nose. Do you stand up and keep fighting, knowing you're probably gonna lose... or do you go home, lick your wounds, lift all week, watch some Tae Bo, and come back ready to kick ass a week later?
You fight from a position of strength. Some Sun Tzu shit, I'm sure. I think we all agree we're NOT in a position of strength right now. We let technology improve, we let the US recover some position, we pull back men from arab states and stack them up in S Korea or against Russia, then we start telling mfckers how a world currency will be rebuilt, or that the dollar is staying put.
