Borrowing

"What Americans need to understand is that ... every single day of the year, our government goes into the market and borrows money from other countries to finance Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, and our tax cuts," he said.

"We have never done this before. Never in the history of our republic have we ever financed a conflict, military conflict, by borrowing money from somewhere else."

Clinton added: "We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Korea primarily to basically loan us money every day of the year to cover my tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina. I don't think it makes any sense."

(From Clinton Launches Withering Attack on Bush on Iraq, Katrina, budget.)

We do?! I will admit I have no clue about that, and want to understand it more. That is crazy, scary, and weird. Maybe what it means is that because our trade balance is off, that's how we're "borrowing" money. I don't know. Anyone? Anyone out there understand this?