[harpseal]

Baloney. America's most successful and famous entrepreneurs almost ALL started after they were middle-aged failuers: Ray Kroc didn't come across McDonald's until he was in his late 40s selling Dixie Cups; C. W. Post was a failure at everything and in a health asylum, broke, when he invented Postum and Grape Nuts; Mary Kay Ash had two kids and no husband when she started her own cosmetics company at age 50; P. T. Barnum didn't create his famous circus until age 70!!!; the guys who invented Home Depot were both in middle age and not particularly successful as I recall.

Please cite such a story from an era in which the USA was not employing protective tariffs. further Phineas T Barnum was a sucessful showman long before he created his circus.

[LS]

Mary Kay Ash? Where have you been. She made her mark in the late 1950s. Ray Kroc? Since when were there protective tariffs on hamburgers? Man you are out to lunch (no pun intended).