[hedgetrimmer]

You are leaving out a couple of important pieces of information. If you say the iceman lost his job, but the refrigerator found his, you are wrong. The iceman didn't lose his job because the government created programs that ultimately forced his job offshore. In the days of the iceman, the government did not act unilaterally to decimate whole sectors of the economy so that it could provide trade giveaways at international trade rounds. If the local modernized and households bought refrigerators, the need for icemen diminished. In today's centrally planned global economy, elites attending the trade rounds decide which countries will get which sectors. It is flatly antiAmerican, completely orchestrated and totally unconstitutional.

The pretending going on is that this economy is a natural progression of some sort, when indeed it is part of a global planning process that usurps the rights of American citizens to control their own destiny.

[Tokra]

You might want to check your history book. The icemen lost their jobs in the early 1930s - just when the federal goverment was interfering with the economy big time.

I'm sorry - I just don't buy the tin hat theory that Bush, Cheney and Queen Beatrice are plotting to turn the world into one global entity.

You, of course are entitled to believe what you wish.