Mr. VP:  Respectfully, my reply is that they are not willing to do these "small deals" and they have quashed our hopes via the "no deals"!  Here in the Great Mid-West we call it a "SNOW JOB".  We need to stop the DREAM and get reality aHead of us.   Reality is we have been set up for the slaughter as the LAMB thru their coy missdeeds, and via the CRULE TREATMENT of HONORABLE James Briscoe.  The End!