1. The bank bailouts SAVED America from a horrible disaster. Most Americans don't know shit about economics and don't realize how much those saved us from a depression that would dwarf the great depression. Can you imagine how messed up our economy would be if we had more Lehman Brothers type collapses?
2. Thank god our economy is not based on gold. The gold standard worked in the past but there's a reason gold smiths ditched it(funny thing is a lot of the gold ppl were the first banks). The supply of gold is constant, we can not grow gold. Our economy needs to grow. Sure you could bring up inflation but you need inflation if you want to know why google it.
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http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/774/economics/list-of-national-debt-by-country/ Most people don't understand that our debt is not really that bad when you compare it with gdp and then compare it to other countries.
4. A couple of fun debt facts:
-Most of our debt is owned domestically I believe 2 of 3 dollars is owed to fellow Americas(foreign debt is bad), which means it is to good debt. Another economy won't screw us up.
-China doesn't own us as much as the news wants you to think. I think they own a tenth or an eighth
-China is still cool with investing with us because our debt is manageable, funny how they don't want to touch Europeans... lololol euro say this coming three years ago
5. Back to your complaint about word fluctuating currency. Pretty much every major economic power does that, it's not stupid. I doubt a kid like you would know more than an economist in charge of our economy, but that's just me...
6. To wrap up America has done great with our economy, if you take even a few college classes on macro and read a couple things in the wsg and glance at cnbc you would realize this. Our use of fiscal and monetary policy have literally helped saved your life from becoming a literal financial hell.
I know economics wasn't the main point of your post but I couldn't allow you to bash our economy using those arguments...