After Financial Crisis, Uncertainty and Lectures From Abroad
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/world/americas/03latin.html?ref=world
This article is about the effect the United States’ failing economy has on the rest of the world. Recently many of the countries, in South America specifically, have been trying to break away from American economic and political aid. They have fired ambassadors to America and many feel bitter towards our country because they believe the economic policies that we created for them have caused their problems. They have started getting rather cocky about their new found independence. The irony is that just as they started insulting America, they are beginning to feel the pull from America’s failing economy. But the difference between these countries and America is that as they have been expanding and trading with other nations they have been saving their money for times when they will need it. This article really shows the huge influence that America has on the rest of the world. You never really realize how important something is until it starts failing. America has helped so many countries in all different ways it would be terrible if we started to collapse. It would be like dominoes and eventually most of the world would be in a depression. It is scary to think of the fall of America. The United States has always stood for prosperity and it would be so strange to see it fall from that position. Granted every power must fall in order to complete the cycle, but it can only be hoped that the fall will be slight.