We are lucky, here in New Haven, Missouri. We still have local markets. On my street almost all those who are working, work for Chrysler. No one buys a "foreign" car. Of course many of the components they attach to those American made cars are from off-shore vendors! Still our local wineries produce excellent products, our four or five local meat processors sell only local farm raised (no feed lots here) beef and pork and I buy my huge, lovely brown eggs from a lady down the road who has dozens and dozens of free ranging chickens. I shop locally. I can get it for less at Wally world. but I won't drive the 12 miles to do so. I figure I can't ever save enough money to justify our local stores going out of business.

Washington, the next town to the East of us is gleefully surrendering to the strip-mall mentality and becoming a bedroom community for St Louisans frightened that the black and poor will eat them for breakfast.

CB