The only thing propping up our economy is the fact that the US is the best of the world economies that are all in crisis. Obama's own bipartisan commission established to study the debt problem headed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson co-chairs explained the dire consequences of continuing deficit spending and rising debt. Alan Simpson (former senator from WY) said economic collapse will 'be very swift and very dramatic'. When asked why the markets haven't reacted to the US being on the precipice of collapse, Erskine Bowles said its because the US economy is "the best lookin' horse in the glue factory."