[charlie_the_tuna]

thanks guys. its good or bad to know that i'm not the only one in this situation. i cant believe that the wife bought a new shower cutain last week and the dam thing was made in china. i have a very hard time believing that we do not have the technology in this country to produce a simple shower curtain. are we so innept that we need to have a shower curtain produced and then shipped halfway around the world? its absolutely everything you see. china. taiwan. malaysia. sri lanka, etc.......
chum, as for the truck, when i bought the dakota i could only drool at the toyota. it was my first choice in the midsized and the last one i could afford. the wife drives the toyota minivan as i wanted her to have a car she could rely on. i dont know if its our technology or just the fact that we have become fat and lazy as a nation.
i speak to a rider who travels to asia on business and he told me about a commuter railroad in i think hong kong. he told of a railroad that is fast, efficient, clean and run with almost no human presence. fact is we probably could run our railroad with less personnel onboard but thank god we dont, as it takes us 5 people to do the job of one over there.
what a joke we have become and what a laughing stock our president has helped us to create. (i dont blame him entirely as we've been heading in this direction for a very long time) i fear this is the beginning of the end, and i fear for the future of my children.