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Actually all the 'experts' now realize now that a retail, service sector, nothing but consume economy is doomed from the get go.

Really? I'll bet lunch that a survey of the college campuses will reveal the unending virtues of the service economy...

Remember when there were real manufacturing jobs in the USA...

Give me the name of the last machinist that you met.

[RSmithOpt]

Tommy, Rick and Milton...I see them every week at least once as I walk by the shop to another test lab....they build custom stuff here at work for our production lines.

However, I certainly do get your point 100%.....Yeah and if one is to believe that the liberal elitist mindset isn't being poured into what could be great minds on our college campuses today, they certainly believe that AlGoreManBearPig actually did invent the Internet. (LOL!!)