So what is the REAL Agenda of the Left Wing Environmentalists?

I'm more inclined to believe with each passing day that it's going back to hunting and gathering and living in mud huts.....

I was reading a little earlier that South Korea has 9 new Nuclear power plants either under construction or in the planning process which will supply 55% of that country's electricity needs when they come all come online by 2030. These are in addition to the 20 or so plants that are already in operation.

Clean power with no green house gas emissions to speak of.....yet.....we can't build those here because of the environmentalists......

The Three Gorges Hydro project in China is capable of supplying 3% of China's total electricity needs based on latest estimates, down from an original estimate of 10% due to China's huge growth in manufacturing for the global marketplace. Still 3% for a country of well over a BILLION people from just ONE Hydro project is amazing.....

Here the environmentalists sue to stop any new Hydro projects, and want existing dams removed.....for fish migration.....

We have the largest coal reserves of any nation on Earth and the technology to produce clean burning 2nd generation coal fired plants.....

You guessed it.....can't build those either.....

We are all feeling the pinch at the pump, and the liberals would have you blame the oil companies for the high prices.....yet we have approximately 115 BILLION barrels of proven oil reserves (when you include the outer continental shelf and the gulf of Alaska) and over 240 TRILLION Cubic feet of natural gas reserves.....

85% of which are off limits because of legislation sponsored by or lobbied for by the environmental movement.....

We haven't built a new petroleum refinery in the U.S. in 30 years.....The environmentalists fight against them every time they are proposed.....

On average we consume 21,000,000 barrels of oil per DAY in this country. The equivalent of 882 MLLION gallons of gasoline. Over the course of a fiscal quarter that is about 80.5 BILLION Gallons of fuel.....do you see where I'm going yet????

Okay.....stay with me here.....Let's assume for a moment that Exxon Mobil was the sole provider in the United States. I know this isn't the case, but since they show the largest profits in terms of pure dollars and in Gross Profit percentage it SHOULD really drive home my point about these "so-called" windfall profits. In the first quarter Exxon Mobil profits were about $11 Billion. Sounds like alot of money until you do the math......It works out to a WHOPPING 13.66 CENTS per gallon.....or.....a mere 3% of the pump price.....

Much of which they reinvest into exploration and production, and much of which is distributed to your 401K in the form of increased stock value and dividends.....Don't forget that 100 Million people in this country own stock in one form or another, and most mutual funds have at least some of their money invested in the energy sector.

I will freely admit that our country is the largest consumer of energy on the planet, but we didn't get to be where we are in terms of comfort and standard of living by a willingness to compromise our economic viability.

This is precisely what the Environmental movement is about.....Though they will never admit it. Much of the money behind these organizations is NOT from the U.S. and much of what is, is supplied by people with alternate agendas.....These folks have far more money than they could ever spend so if you and I take an economic hit they don't much care.

What's unfortunate is that there are many idealistic young people who get caught up in this. Kids who really don't understand that they are just pawns in a much larger chess game. We have far too many politicians who talk a good game, but let's see who is paying THEIR bills when they are out of office.....That taxpayer funded pension is just pocket change for many of them.

If we are to continue to enjoy the standard of living to which we have become accustomed we need to open our eyes to the realities of the global energy situation and do our best you use the resources that are available to us. Oil, natural gas, coal, hydro, geothermal, nuclear, wind, solar, tidal.....They all have a place at the table, and as the renewables become more efficient we can phase out fossil fuel usage.....

What we cannot do under ANY circumstances is compromise our economy in a rush to embrace the currently inefficient alternatives to Fossil fuels. If we do then it is our own fault if we end up watching our nation be set back 100 years while expanding economies like China and India laugh at our foolishness.....

You will note that I did not mention Ethanol at all.....Personally I believe that using the breadbasket of our nation and our REAL source of security....(FOOD) to produce an alternative to gasoline is hopelessly short-sighted and pathetically naive.

And for those of you who think this is a "new" technology.....Ethanol has been around for 100 years.....and it's no more efficient now than it was then. That's why we EAT corn.....Because that is the most efficient use of a FOOD product.....

Below is a link to a government website on U.S. and Global Oil usage.....it's a good reference guide to what is really going on with supply and demand for oil world wide.....

http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/quickfacts/quickoil.html

Good day!

Obama......A patriot? Not likely......

Courtesy of Reuters.....

"Democrat Barack Obama admitted on Tuesday he was wrong to say his uncle helped liberate the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp after Republicans said Soviet troops freed the camp.

Obama's campaign said the candidate meant to say that his great-uncle, Charlie Payne, had helped liberate a part of the Buchenwald camp, not Auschwitz. "Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

Burton said in the statement that Obama's great uncle served in the 89th Infantry Division that entered Germany in 1945 and on April 4 overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp."

I'm assuming this was his "typical White Woman" grandmother's brother......Which I guess probably makes him a "Typical White Man"......except when it's politically convenient to have ties to someone who served in the military during World War II, however remote those ties may be.....I find it more than a little disturbing that Obama embraces his African American ancestry and denigrates his caucasian ancestry when he approaches African American voters, yet flips completely the other direction to embrace the white side of his family when he can find something appealing to use as a talking point.

Regardless of who Charlie Payne was.....A private, a captain, a colonel.....it simply has NO bearing on whether Obama is fit to be the President of our country. My great-great-great uncle was Grover Cleveland. Does that somehow make me any more fit to be our President than other people who have those aspirations? Of course not......This media "love fest" with Obama completely escapes me. The Democrat "love fest" with Obama is equally as puzzling. I have yet to hear him say one single thing that I find remotely praise worthy.

I do however find many of the things he has said or done a little frightening for someone who would lead our country.....No lapel pin......The Dem's say "not a big deal".....My response.....Then why not wear it? If wearing the lapel pin is a minor detail to them then it wouldn't hurt the guy to take 10 seconds out of his day to put the damn thing on.....Oh, but there is something a little telling in that.....especially when you have his wife saying "this is the first time I've been proud of my country" when hubby Barack is making some political headway. Even if he's not wearing it because he doesn't like where our country is now one would think that he would wear it to show that he at least believes in the vision of our founding fathers, and believes in his own vision for our nation.

No hand over the heart during the National Anthem.....A simple gesture of allegiance to the "idea" of the United States and to the Constitution.....Is somehow beneath his dignity. I think his Uncle Charlie would be appalled at this if he is still living, having served and fought for that flag that Obama refuses to wear, embrace or salute.....

The lack of knowedge on simple U.S. Geography.....A question that would have ended his stay on "are you smarter than a 5th grader".....not realizing that Kentucky BORDERS Illinois after getting his ass handed to him in the Kentucky primary......

The "bitter clingers" debacle.....bashing white middle class Americans.....Basically saying that having religious faith is akin to having a disease, and owning a firearm makes a person somehow less intelligent, less able to understand the situation in our country, and less adept at making good decisions.....

On this he has no room to cast aspersions......This is a man that "clings" to ANYTHING that he thinks will make him more electible.....His blackness......his whiteness......he's everyman.....he's elite.....he's against the Iraq war.....he's for a strong military.....he says we can "ALL" afford to pay a little more.....but wants to keep the tax cuts.....He's against global warming, but he wants manufacturing to come home......

The only thing consistent about the man is his inconsistency.....and THAT, to me, makes him weak, unqualified, and far too malleable to EVER be considered for this job that he seeks.

Some quotes to think about......

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country" Nathan Hale

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." Adlai Stevenson

" that we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of Liberty." John F. Kennedy Innaugural Address 1961

"...That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863

"In a chariot of light from the region of the day,The Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree." Thomas Paine July, 1775

"A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country." Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it."
John F. Kennedy

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

Strong words from all......

.....and Obama gives us gems like......

"I've been in about 57 states so far...." Barack Obama

"We stand here to honor our unbroken line of fallen heroes.....many of whom I see in the audience today" Barack Obama

"I see dead people" Haley Joel Osmett.....in "The Sixth Sense"

Thrown in for comparison......

For the sake of our Nation please have some common sense.....do not vote to put this neophyte in the White House. We cannot, as a nation, afford to make that blunder.....

Congress should be ashamed of itself.....

IDIOTS!!!!!!

Every single one of them.....IDIOTS!!!!!

Study simple economics for a minute and stop feeding your egos with a bunch of CO2 emitting speeches.....I AM SICK TO DEATH OF ALL THE TALKING THAT GOES ON IN WASHINGTON WITH NOTHING PRODUCTIVE EVER GETTING DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PATRICK LEAHY, NANCY PELOSI, BARBARA BOXER et al.......SHUT THE HELL UP AND THINK! Even if it's for the first time in your lives.....When the hell are you going to wise up?
SUE OPEC?????????? What's that going to accomplish except to piss them off so they won't sell us ANY oil. Allow the development of some resources at home. I drive a 21 year-old Mustang that gets 35 MPG and passes emissions testing every year and I still hate $4.00 a gallon gas.

You WILL NOT SEE a break in the speculative price spiral upwards until there is a reason for that break to happen. PANDERING TO EVERY LOONY ENVIRONMENTALIST WHACK-JOB ISN'T GOING TO GIVE THE SPECULATORS ANY REASON TO THINK THERE WILL BE MORE PRODUCTION WHICH WOULD LOWER PRICES......

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HOW STOPPING THE FILLING OF THE PETROLEUM RESERVE WORKED OUT.....OIL IS UP $7.00 A BARREL SINCE THAT LITTLE MARVY. AND GAS PRICES JUMPED ANOTHER 15 CENTS. THANKS NANCY, BARBARA AND PATRICK..... THAT WAS A TRUE LEADERSHIP STATEMENT!!!!! (BUT ONLY OF GIMMICKS, GRANDSTANDING, AND EGO FEEDING.....THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO PRACTICAL VALUE)

BITCHING AT OIL COMPANY EXECUTIVES IS POINTLESS. THEY DIDN'T CREATE THE PROBLEM!!!! BAD GOVERNMENT POLICY CAUSED THE PROBLEM!!!! ARE YOU SO NAIVE AS TO THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE THE BIG BAD UNITED STATES of AMERICA WANTS SAUDI ARABIA TO PUMP MORE OIL THEY WILL ROLL OVER AND SAY "YES MASSA' WE GET'S TO PUMPIN' RIGHT AWAY"? THAT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.

If you want to HAVE A DECENT AMERICA FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN YOU NEED TO SPEAK UP TO YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND STOP THIS MADNESS.....WE NEED TO PROTECT WHAT ECONOMY WE HAVE LEFT AND STOP SHIPPING OUR NATIONAL WEALTH OVER SEAS.....

THE DOLLAR IS WEAK BECAUSE OUR LEADERSHIP IS RUDDERLESS FROM THE TOP DOWN. OTHER WORLD GOVERNMENTS NO LONGER HAVE FAITH IN OUR ECONOMY. THEY UNDERSTAND THAT TO HAVE A VIABLE, DYNAMIC, GROWING ECONOMY IT CANNOT BE SADDLED WITH DEBT, AND IT CANNOT BE RUN BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO CONCEPT OF LIVING WITHIN A BUDGET (PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS)

WE ABSOLUTELY MUST RETURN TO FISCAL SANITY.....LEAN AND MEAN.....I would hope also that every day "Joe Sixpack" like me would understand that you can improve your standard of living by eliminating debt.....It's the credit card payments that are killing you.....Pay them off and cut them up.....and most of all......If you can't afford to pay cash.....you probably don't need it.

If every credit card in this country was cut up tomorrow there would be a short term hitch in the retail sector......but ultimately (AND THE BANKS DON'T WANT YOU TO FIGURE THIS OUT BECAUSE THEY LOVE THOSE INTEREST PAYMENTS) you would have far MORE DISPOSABLE INCOME OVER THE LONG TERM IF YOU PAY CASH!!!!.....Which Ultimately means you could have a better quality of life.....

The best thing that could happen would be for consumers to rediscover the joy of delayed gratification. You appreciate those big purchases alot more when you have to save money to buy them......

HMMMMMM.......and it's high time the POLITICIANS figure that out too.....you can do more with less......Balance the budget, pay down the national debt.....Reduce taxes to stimulate the economy and guess what? TAX REVENUES GO UP!!!! Imagine that.....and without all that pesky interest on the national debt maybe we could pay for some new roads or water infrastructure.....AND INVEST in some of those alternative energy technologies to make them viable, REALISTIC alternatives.....Not just gimmicks to satisfy the loony left.

This month's "Big Cup of Dumbass" award.....

And the winner is......The un-named U.S. soldier serving in Iraq who thought it would be a good idea to shoot up a copy of the Koran during target practice.....Come on boys and girls, you're in a part of the world that has been inherently violent for over 6,000 years.....The vast majority of their laws are tied directly to their religion, and they are still fighting "The Crusades" 800 years after the original events. USE SOME COMMON SENSE!!!!!

and while I'm at it.....HEY OBAMA, grow some thicker skin.....not everything is about you. While Bush's comments about "appeasement" were far more likely being directed at Jimmy Carter, it wouldn't hurt you to remember (or study) some history. Probably the best (and one of the more recent) example of the failure in negotiating with single minded whack-jobs is Neville Chamberlain negotiating with Hitler.....We all know how that turned out.....Ask the Russians how thrilled they were to have 40,000,000 people die during WWII.....Or ask the next Jewish person you run into. And don't EVER give me that "hindsight is 20/20" crap.....If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.....it ain't no damn horse.

What I can't understand with Liberals in general is how on God's Green Earth they can think that if we are all warm and fuzzy with people that hate us everything will be okay.....Their tunnel-visioned, high-minded view of the world is stunning to me in it's naivete'. Good, bad, or indifferent most other cultures do NOT share our world view and to think that they would or should is hopelessly arrogant. In our own country there are many issues that divide us so deeply that the chasm cannot not be breached. The problem with many who hold a liberal philosphy is that they are so convinced of their own superiority they are blind to other points of view, and to disagree with them is to be looked down upon as somehow inferior, not as intellectual, and in many cases less than a person.

I was appalled by Obama's "Guns and Religion" comments. I don't own any firearms, and I do not attend church, but I am very conservative when it comes to fiscal issues, and I understand (which he seems not to) that if we do not limit the role of government then the tax burden will be borne by the very people he claims to want to help.....This blindness leads us further down the path towards Socialism and the further separation of classes.....

All of these people in politics need to re-read Orwell's "1984".....And make sure they understand what they are doing to our nation, because it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that we are moving towards a nation not so different from Oceania in "1984", or Soviet Russia in our real world where you had "the elite class" of party members, and the rest of us.....the proletariat.....

I don't believe that most liberals care since they seem convinced that their intellectual superiority will guarantee party membership, but most guys like me just want to work for a living to try to provide a good life for their families and have the government hold to the promises of the Constitution.....

It's easy to be Liberal if you are rich.....or young with few expenses and an ideology that out-weighs your common sense. Try being working middle class for awhile and see if that changes how you look at things.....I know for alot of people it does, we just never get any press coverage because we are too busy working to pay the taxes that run the country.....and.....there's not enough blood or glamour in that to make good copy.

Good day!

A little common sense would be nice.....

HELLO WASHINGTON D.C.!!!!

Is anyone working there that has a brain functioning above the level of Broccoli???? Just checking because I'm becoming more and more convinced every day that there isn't.

Fuel....Gasoline.....Diesel.....Natural Gas.....Heating Oil.....All of us are acutely aware of how expensive these basic necessities are becoming. What I can't understand is "WHY" the wackadoos in D.C. simply cannot acknowledge that we need to be more proactive in finding a solution.....

Oh wait.....Yes I do understand, we'll call it the "Gore Syndrome". Even most mainstream scientists are now forced to admit that their climate models are flawed as they relate to global warming theory since there isn't a sufficiently large enough data set to truly validate the concept. This "winter from hell" that we are just coming out of should be enough for most of us to understand that.....

So what we have are Gore's disciples still telling us that the sky is falling and we need to unilaterally do something about it.....Hmmmm like become a third world country.

Not on my watch.....

If we continue down the path we are on that's exactly where we are headed......We need to quit being the little frog in the pot of water, happily sitting there thinking everything is fine until he starts to boil.

The simple truth is that oil prices have no business being as high as they are.....There is a huge speculative boom right now.....True, the Chinese are using more oil than they ever have before in their history, as are the folks in India. Also true that there are some supply difficulties in certain producing nations, but they have little or nothing to do with the availablility of product. There are other factors why OUR prices are so high.....

This is largely a problem of our own making. We have huge reserves of oil and natural gas, but the politicians are so busy catering to the wants of the environmental movement that we cannot access much of it. We haven't built a refinery in 30 years. We refuse to use clean, affordable nuclear power. Conservation will NOT work on it's own, and the technology of Solar is still too inefficient to be a viable alternative, except in limited residential use, and even then the cost to benefit ratio is skewed too far in the wrong direction. Figure a $20,000 for a solar system to supplement grid power.....If that saves you $50 a month it would still take almost 32 years to pay back the inital investment.....and somehow I don't think the system will last that long.

Short term we need to drill to extract what we have and build more refineries. I'm sick to death of hearing about ANWR.....3000 acres in an area so vast is like a postage stamp on a football field. I have a friend who works up on the north slope and he's sent me pictures of the area where BP wants to drill.....It's a dead, desolate wasteland. forget the warm and fuzzy pictures that the Sierra Club shows off.....That ain't the way it is.....

Yes I live in a state that benefits greatly from the extractive industries. It's irrelevant now since we have the highest average gas prices in the nation, and we also have winter 7 months a year. I know many people who had heating oil bills on the order of $500-600 per MONTH. It doesn't matter how well built your house is.....when it's -40 to -50 for months at a time it's damn expensive to heat a house. It all balances out in our pocket books.

The bottom line is that we NEED to take advantage of the resources we have while we wait for the newer energy technologies to develop into reasonable alternatives.....

A few things to think about......

If the science that Gore rails about was so accurate then why was his a Nobel PEACE prize and not a Nobel for Chemistry which would be more appropriate given that we are talking about chemical reactions that are supposedly altering the climate.

That wonderful little electric car you just bought.....You plug it in at night and the power comes from a natural gas or oil fired power plant.....You can feel all warm and fuzzy about that but you're still using fossil fuels for that vehicle. And what about the hazardous waste disposal when the batteries wear out......

Environmentalists want to REMOVE clean hydro-electric projects for fish migration.....

115 BILLION barrels of proven oil reserves, 85% of which are not accessible because of the environmental lobby. Same goes for the 242 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas.....

Solar panels at this time are only 19% efficient.

Ethanol is only about 75% as efficient in running your car as gasoline. It's also a major contributing factor to the inflation we are seeing in food prices.

Nancy Pelosi's wonderful idea about halting the filling of our strategic oil reserve would only remove 1/3 of 1% from our daily usage in the US.....The resulting savings at the pump? Right now less than a penny per gallon.....Thanks Nancy that really helps.....NOT!

When I was living in Seattle I saw a sign in a vehicle that said "NO WAR FOR OIL".....The vehicle was a Ford Expedition.....at about 9 miles per gallon.....Hypocrasy on a GRAND scale!

The Seattle Post Intelligencer did a puff piece on a liberal conservationist who had managed to limit his family's driving to 300 miles per week.....he lived in Bellevue and took the bus into Seattle for work, his wife drove a minivan those 300 miles each and every week.....I lived in Everett at the time, had a 30 mile commute each way and I only drove about 320 miles a week.....and I was getting 36 miles per gallon.....Their minivan was getting 21 and they were excited about that.....

WAKE UP WASHINGTON!!!!

You have a golden opportunity to prove that this is STILL a constitutional republic of, by and for the PEOPLE, not a bunch of self-interested hypocrites selling out the citizenry to help further the agenda of the environmental lobby and stuff the coffers of your campaign fund for re-election.

You can't have it both ways right now.....The technology isn't good enough to warrant it, and it's every day Joe-Sixpack who is paying the price.

Beware of misleading advertising.....

This is something that seems to happen every time that precious metals experience a renewed sense of interest by the general public due to increasing prices in gold and silver.....Shysters trying to take advantage of the uneducated and/or the elderly by making offers to buy or sell that seem to good to be true.

The old adage is too often accurate.....If it seems too good to be true, then it probably is.....

I cringe every time I'm flipping through the channels and catch a glimpse of the "coin shows" on QVC and the Home Shopping Network. Too often what they are selling will never have any real numismatic value....it's all hype. And on those rare occasions when they do offer something that has some value the items are hopelessly over-priced.....I end up thinking of that old Kurt Russell movie where he is selling used cars with the bumpers held on with chewing gum.....

Unfortunately the victims of this deceptive selling are often our elderly, who are generally trying to do one of two things.....A. Provide themselves with an added measure of security in their golden years, albeit a small one.....or B. To provide a gift to their loved ones (children/grandchildren etc.) that will grow in value as the years go by.....

The sad truth is that when it comes time to sell these items and they are taken to the local coin dealer he ends up being "the bad guy" because he is the one who has to tell these people that what they purchased is junk.....The REAL culprit is the disingenuous seller.....

I've been involved in coins for 35 years and I can't even begin to count the number of times I've seen this happen.....

Then we have the dishonest buyers.....usually advertising on the internet and on TV.....Telling you how they can make you money on all that old jewelry and loose dental gold you have laying around.....

I went to one of these websites not too long ago just to check it out.....I had to hunt for about 20 minutes to actually get to the page that told me what their buying prices were. On every click before that they were trying very hard to get me to "send for their free mailing kit" without investigating further.....It was easy to see why, since they were offering about 40 cents on the dollar for 24 karat .999 fine gold, and THAT price was only if you had ALOT of it. The buying price for that same gold in small quantities was about 20 cents on the dollar. The prices on silver and platinum were worse, and they had final say as to the quality of what you sent in.

The most disturbing part to me is that you had to REQUEST that any gem stones be returned.....So first they want to steal your gold for 20 cents on the dollar, and then they want to keep your diamonds, sapphires, and rubies as a gift for stealing your gold!

Personally, I know very little about jewelry, but I have an extensive knowledge of U.S. coins and I have a decent library to back me up if I need to do research. So if anyone reading this would like to know if a particular coin has any value send me a note in my comments section or send me an email with a photograph and I will try to give you an idea of what you have. In some instances I can steer you to a REPUTABLE dealer in your area who would give you an honest appraisal of what your coin or coins are worth.

If you are buying....do a little research and find out if you would be paying too much.....and remember caveat emptor.....let the buyer beware.....

If you are selling....always try to get more than one opinion, and NEVER send anything through the mail until you have an idea of what it is worth and are sure you can trust the person you are sending it to.....

And one last tip.....when you take something in to get it appraised.....Tell the person that you want an appraisal for INSURANCE purposes.....this way you will get the most honest answer. Generally the buying price will still be a little lower than the appraisal, but not 20 cents on the dollar like the thief I mentioned above.....

Have a great day!

A Few Inconvenient Truths.....

.....For the environmentalist skier...... A ski run is still a clear cut......

.....For everyone who has forgotten 5th grade environmental science in it's most simple terms..... Plants "breathe" Carbon Dioxide (CO2) as part of the growth cycle and Oxygen (O2) is a by-product......

.....For Politicians promising to bring manufacturing jobs back home..... There will need to be a fundamental change in the way the average consumer thinks before there is even the most remote possibility of this happening.....

.....For those with short term memory problems..... Clinton gave us NAFTA not Bush.....

.....For GW.....NAFTA is an inherently flawed concept.....

.....For those who complain about "Foreign Cars"......It's a good possibility that your neighbor's Honda or Toyota was built in the United States, while your Ford was built in Canada or Mexico.

.....For ALL POLITICIANS running in the next election..... The quickest way to completely cripple the economy is to raise taxes.