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In the 1950s and early 1960s teenagers played a game of chicken on America's highways. They drove their cars head-on at each other and the first to swerve was branded a "chicken."

World leaders back then played their own game of cars and chicken, and the chicken droppings are still with us.

Which makes me wonder where this will all end- if taxpayers continue to bail out any and all industries that are having cash-flow problems, who might we see trying to stick their hand in our pockets? After all, both Wal-Mart and Target have come out with financial reports of lower quarterly earnings; how dreadful would it be if Americans were not able to buy cheap Chinese crap this holiday season?