[EGPWS]

The top 1 percent reported $1.09 trillion of income, down from $1.34 trillion in 2000, according to data posted by the Internal Revenue Service on the Internet on Friday without announcement.

Perhaps it's time for the "biggest contributers"(middle class like me) to realize that it isn't Governments determination or control that drives the largest economy in the world.

The Government is the entity that generate's that "sucking" sound NOT oversea's countries.

Perhaps a drastic cut in Government spending would create more job's here instead of them going overseas.

[StriperSniper]

The Government is the entity that generate's that "sucking" sound

BUMP!

[staytrue]

The Government is the entity that generate's that "sucking" sound NOT oversea's countries.

fyi, trade deficit=500 billion, federal govt. taxes = 1.9 trillion.

[yankeedame]

Perhaps a drastic cut in Government spending would create more job's here instead of them going overseas.

Ah, but only to a point. The other major factor causing companies to go "overseas" is the current anti-business/tort lawyers runamuck condition we're got today. For example:

I just read in Forbes that Nike, attacked, by civil rights groups, sought to explain itself and its policy, etc.- in print. (newspaper I believe)

Nike was immediatly sued by these CR people for false advertising...and the judge agreed! He stated that Nike, by explaining itself in print, was, in essence, advertising. And since the CR people still charge that Nike is a bloody-sucking, child-exploiter, corporate s.o.b. well then, Nike is guilty of false advertising.

This is not the healthiest enviroment for a business, of any size.