In the short term no, a packed court may not have a great impact on your life economically but consider the kind of country that your kids will have to grow up in with a Chief Justice Scalia (shudder)setting the agenda and the inclusion of a couple more conservative colleagues abetting him. It doesn't sound like the kind of America I'd want to live in. This court as it stands now is, after all, largely responsible for making Bush possible. vl