Dickey had you left out the bit on Nestlé building a $359 mill facility I wouldn't have bother to post again to this thread. But you did, so. Nestle has raped the women of Africa, it supplied free to hospitals fomular for babies & went on a scare campain to drive the women away from giving breast milk to their offspring therefore asuring themselves that the poor, undereducated new mothers would dry up of their on healty milk in lieu of having to but Nestles formular. Worst than a drug empire hooking new clients. That only begins to tell the Nestle story, that only begins to tell why they can afford to built a $359 million dollar facility, may thier facility burn to the ground before it's completed. OK, there you are 1 example of how corporate America benifits from the poor & uneducated classes. Does it say how Certainteed closed it's plants in the north, to move to a cheaper production local & how it now sells a new inferior product with a lifetime of half of what it says, they won't even put their specs on the label & I doubt that you'll find the on their web site eiter. Of course they can afford to build a plant. If some of these "Big" corps gave their employees their worth, made a product that was half as good as their foreign competitors paid a fair share of their taxes, stop recieving subsities (either by government handouts or by having the government penalize foreign competitors), then I would buy American. What they pay a CEO's & the upper top management is foul when compared to what they give to the lower tier employee. Can you say Enron Everywhere? Yes they do need to make a profit in order to survive but it seems to me that they're the one who are surviving well off, off the backs of those who end up dying at early ages or end up, if they're lucky, with a pension the may just be enough to get them by for the next 10yrs, when they have to go out & work just to cover their medical bills & perscriptions. You still just don't get it, do you! Ya, we can all work for shit & in the end eat it because we're left without the means to make ends MEAT. We can make billions for the top 5 or 10% or for that 1% & then go piss in an alley after 30 yrs on the night shift. The elderly are fast becoming the poorer class, this is not what the American dream promised them. So whose at fault & how to fix it? Tell the government that we will no longer fight their wars for profit, we want, for everyone, the same free heath & care benifits that every Washington politician recieves, after all we've been giving them a free ride long enough espically when you think of how they'll vote their own raises but not for the min. wage act, a right to a retirement that is in line with what profits they made for the corprate empire, a free & decent education for as long as needed, create legislation that keeps companies comitted to R&D, to keeping the buck at home, to start developing greener pastures & expand techology in what would be the front runner in the "GREEN INDUSTRIES". We don't need to go offshore or to outsource if the government & big industry didn't put the almighy dollar before the people. Take care of the people & the people will take care of rest, just allow them their fair share instead of raping them for all they're worth. It's not rocket science but then we keep elected idiots in office who've managed to fix it in such a way that we can't get any intellegence into the offices that aren't on some one's takeor owes someone for their position. An honest intellegent person without corrupted ties hasn't a snowballs chance in hell of being the type of people that we need to lead, they are smart enough to stay as far away from the that type of profession as possible & that's a shame for US all & that's why the poor will become a poorer & larger class with more of the working class following right behind them swelling their ranks.

Barry