``We should be willing to pay more for goods and services``...

I do remember when ``BUY AMERICAN MADE`` was not a dirty word that it has become in the post NAFTA economy...

Cogress just increased the NATIONAL DEBT ceiling to over 9 trillion dollars. And while Mr. Dell will be making his computers in Bangladesh, or wherever, for $300 bucks and sell them here for $950,(which is good for him and his company), it certainly does not help the 20,000 people he lays off in his American operations...

And you are right in stating ``otherwise the economic issue will become the single most important problem facing our survival and world dominance,...

While we are spending billions bringing democracy to IRAQ?, the rug is literally being pulled from under US by corporate shells that keep moving their operations off shore and to foriegn lands...

And that is a very small part of my soap Opera on this slow EDIG day...Lol...Lol...

Good Luck to us all...

Gil...