so take charge of your symptoms by talking to your doctor and go to vesicare.com for a free trial offer. the u.s. owes china more than a trillion dollars. a big chunk of the national debt. some investors claim the communist nation actually owes the united states money. money on bonds that china issued before world war ii. until now, a lot of folks thought those bonds were worthless but that may not be the case peert barnes from fox business is live from washington. peter, these investors claim that the bonds could be worth billions or even trillions of dollars. that s right, shep. in part because many are backed by gold but china 1937.
category of changes that could affect mideastly the affluent. these are people who have done better than nearly any other economic group in the last 30 years. they are people who have had the biggest tax cuts. you can make some changes there, means testing, the bush tax cuts. it doesn t get you close to all the way there. it gets you a substantial minority of the way there. david, can you answer those mostly on the republican side. some in both parties who said we can skate by this. august 2nd is tim geithner s fantasy date. and there s enough money there. take money from social security. float some bonds. what is the reality of that? the reality is although we don t know there is every reason to think it would be terrible to do this. the fact is these are debts we ve already run up. the debt ceiling is not about should we take on more deficits. these are debts we ve run up, the question is do we pay back the people who lent us the money. those people remain willing to lend the uni