[willy]

I am not going to get into a political thing here but I do want to add some imput.
The reason the jobs, especially in manufacturing have gone overseas, is that the cost of doing business here in the U.S is the highest in the industrialized world, the taxes on corporations is the highest in the industrialized world and the regulatory compliance costs are the highest in the world.
So you are an international company, like almost all the major corps now, you want to open a new facility to produce the new widget your R&D has come up with. Where do you build them?
And there in a nutshell is the problem for over three decades now.
November 2012 is the last real hope we have of turning this economy around and making this the target location for the buisnessess around the world to start investing here, to start manufacturing here, to feel most stabil here.
We have the people, we have the safest nation in the world, they want to come here, but we have a society who is close to having the majority living off the largess of an out of control federal government, and they all know we also have a political elite that intend to increase those numbers dramatically in the next few years.
Mark my words, if we get a Constitutional Fiscally responsible person in the White House and a Senate that will back him or her up this country will run like wild fire, the economy will expand at unheard of rates and we will start to hammer hard at the permantly unemployed numbers in our nation. Your dollars value will start to rise and you will start to see a lot more Made in the USA stickers on your products.
And your children will have a good shot at living a decent life as a Free American. something we were all given by our parents.