[MEG33]

What ever happened to the belief in creating new companies,innovation? Small businesses keep this nation working.
I think this dot com bubble and the unrealistic stock prices,salaries,have made a group of bitter ex employees..they blame the Bush economy,not the Clinton economy and the "gamblers" who fueled the companies with their exuberant buying of stock.

We have been losing manufacturing for decades.We have recessions ever so often and the chicken littles act like it'll never end.(Yes ,my husband did not have a job and we had two kids in college once so I know the pain)

[Taliesan]

We've been losing farmers for longer than decades.

We will all starve.

[Poohbah]

Well, navyblue was proposing allowing every nation in the world to nationalize American property, secure in the knowledge that America wouldn't do anything to them.

It's a pretty stupid idea.