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If there were a perfect solution, and I don't see that there is, we would be able to raise the third world up without losing ground on our standard of living.

Never the less, we are part of the global economy now and we as a population, do not want to pay high prices for the things we use. We have done this to ourselves over a long period of time. Companies have not moved out of the country in only the past two years.

Over the long haul, in order to slow the jobs leaving this country, we may have to pay the price and adjust our standard of living down. (Flamesuit on!)

Our economy has grown so fast in the last 50 years and the bubble of the 90's have spoiled us so much that we don't know how to act when faced with the financial turmoils of today. I admire those who survived the 30's depression. We come from the same stock and should not have forgotten our government leaders and our corporate leaders are not infallable.

To many for to long have lived way beyond our means and cry foul to the government when we find ourselves in a situation where we can't pay our credit cards and high mortgage, to many are not willing start over from scratch and expect the government (read taxpayers) to bail them out somehow. I'm not saying there are no responsible people facing hard times, but hard times are a fact of life and we should do our best to be ready for them.

If corporations need to go oversees to stay competitive and give Americans the prices they want then what does that say about us. We are going to have to weather this storm, pay attention to what is happening around us and adapt. And most of all, teach our kids the value of a dollar and the responsibilies they MUST have in order to live in a free society! The buck stops here.

No the growth is false. This is all manipulation by the power elite. Any growth, and it has been moderate, that has occurred has gone not even to the corporations but to the pirates that run them. In 1967 the Average CEO salary was 7.5 times the Average workers, by 1980 it was 42 times the Average workers and now, 2001 latest statistic, it is 513 times the Average worker. Don't you see something wrong with this picture? A CEO can run a good company into the ground and comeout with a parachute so golden he wouldn't have to work again ever in his life and he could continue to be a jet setter which would probably cause him to trip over another CEO job since they all watch out for each other. We have been asleep and cowards at the ballot box since so many of the "conservatives" vote for the "lesser of two evils". They just can't get it through their thick skulls that both parties are going the same way now at practically the same speed to the point where the Supreme Court has said Perversion is a protected right! We have done it to ourselves by not paying attention at the ballot box and/or being cowards and not voting our principles, but without elitist corporate bribery it could not have been done.

I fear too late people will figure out in order to keep the Republic you must vote your conscience not your fears. I am tired of all the apologists that Free Traitors and globalists are the "best" we can get. Each one of them that do this should have to stand up in front of our Founding Fathers and tell them why they can no longer stand on the principles that the Founding Fathers established. Remember what they sacrificed in order to bring the Republic about. Most lost all that they had, including there families. Many died destitute but brought about the greatest land that has ever existed. I can just imagine what they would say to our cowardly electorate! The "lesser" of two evils still rushes towards the evil and eventually the speed at which it gets there is indistinguisable. We are at that point now.

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