Who's in charge, anyway?

It's fun and easy to pretend that we are the world's superpower in all aspects of life. It's interesting to see the opinions of other countries from time to time. And it's easier that ever to do just that on the Web. Here is a blurb from The Times of India:
"The assessment is that the immediate economic impact would be limited despite some strong words from China. 'The US government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone. China, the largest creditor of the world's sole superpower, has every right now to demand the United States address its structural debt problems and ensure the safety of China's dollar assets,' China said in a statement issued through state news agency Xinhua."

Take a good look at that picture. That's what my grand-kids will look like when they're teenagers. They won't know the same USA in which I grew up.