I live in a 3500 foot house on 12 acres of land and it is heated and cooled and I sleep comfotably every night with my doors unlocked. I am married with three healthy kids, one who is pregnant, have 4 dogs and two cats. All my children have college degrees as do my wife and me. I have never been hungry, I mean really hungry, in my life. I own or co-own three businesses, all started from scratch and I pay the lowest taxes that I have ever paid since entering the business world in 1972. I have been in the service and visited many places and was stationed in Germany. I have traveled the world, including Cuba and have seen the abject poverty that exists I worked in Dallas in the middle to late 1970's and had many John Birch friends who were saying the exact same thing that you guys are saying today, none of which has come true. I have learned a lot on this board about gold and silver mining and market reactions, but absolutly nothing about politics or conspiracies. I feel I am the luckiest person in the world to live in the most wonderful country in the world with unlimited opportunities (I started a new business one year ago) and am sorry that ya'll (yes I am from the South) feel the way you do. It must be miserable. If you did not see Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Ted Turner and some hedge fund manager from California, on Good Morning America yesterday, you need to get it and watch it with an open mind(although I doubt if that is possible). It pointed out the opportunities that exist in America and all were confident, although they did not know what they would be, that those opportunities still exist. It saddens me to read the things possted here, but I will continue to do it and hold my ECU for the everntual payoff. GO HORNED FROGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

adios,

lufkinunit