[NellieMae]

Not hardly, We try to avoid Wal-Mart when we can. We only buy cars made by American companies. It is so hard to find anything made in in America anymore that it is maddening. I am actually shocked when I find something that is made here. I would rather pay a little more and buy America , but, it is virtually impossibly do to so anymore.

[NellieMae]

Sorry,didn't think that it went through.

[trumandogz]

Even if you buy Ford or GM the majority of the components of the vehicle are made outside the U.S. However, the reality of the economy is that technology and price pressures force people to change their occupations several times in their lifetime.

For example, a drafter who learned to draw by hand 25 years ago would be lost and unemployed today if you failed to adapt to the new technology.

Unfortunately, those in the building trades are not a victim of technology but rather a free market economy that permits illegal workers to enter the building trades fields. The benefit to me as a consumer are cheaper prices for construction and the Death of Labor Unions!

On the down side I may lose some quality. However, the bottom line is that our Government and President Bush wants textile jobs to be exported to China and wants to import cheap labor from Mexico to take your husband's job.