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I'm an optimist by nature. On the other hand, a number of friends who are in business are being drained by the outflow of manufacturing to offshore locations. This has affected my business, as I serve that manufacturing-related marketplace.

Printers, CPA's, lawyers who have manufacturing-based practices--all are in pain and most have been so for about 2 years or more.

And to my original point: increases in Gubmint employment are NOT really good news. It's FDR/WPA stuff, except that the WPA was temporary.

Well the question that I always ask and never get an answer too is.

If EVERYTHING can be make cheaper over seas why make ANYTHING here. And I think that is what we are seeing, slowly the manurfactur of EVERYTHING will be done over seas and we will be a dirt poor back water nation what produces nothing but raw materials for more advanced nations.

Think I am wrong? Well we used to lead the world in innovations, but now we are down to just three areas where we lead. Computers, airospace and bio chemistry. I'm pretty sure we will lose our lead in computers (if we already haven't) to Asia and Europe is catching up fast in aerospace, China has targeted aerospace as well.