Ms. Pelosi should check her facts before speaking...

Target is French owned, Walmart is a huge supporter of China, our own John Deere went to Mexico and incidently is going to be cutting contractors for local semi hauling in the very near future which means more jobs lost. John Deere cut its contract in half this year with a transportation company in Iowa and is now going to start laying off semi drivers. We need to put our people back to work and start making things in the United States again and have breaks for companies who produce, market and employee Americans. Put America bck to work and stop buying so much foreign crap. We use to be the leaders in just about everything and now nothing is made here anymore. Harley Davidson sold out for awhile and nearly lost the support of their riders until they became an American company again. Our auto industry has been getting kicked in the teeth for years by foreign auto industry because it was easy to finance a foreign make. Now are auto industry is going bust and our auto workers are losing everything. Why, because Americans were not buying American products. Yah, we became a nation of consumers and sold our selves right into debt, big corporate greed, banks having a strangle hold on us, etc and what did it get us...nearly evicted from our own country with no where to go. America has resources right here in our own country and we don't use it for ourselves, we export it. I was born in the 60's grew up in the 70's disco era and raised a family in the I'm number one 80's era, watched everything start to sink in the 90's and now it looks like America needs a bullet to put her out of her misery or a complete wakeup call that lets face it she is not going to hear now anymore than she has for the last 40 yrs. We are probably doomed like every other leading country before us. The fall of Roman empire ring a bell with anyone?

We have become a nation of consumers and it was a very deliberate campaign started in the 1940's. I can probably find the article from then if you want to see it, I found it on the net once because I couldn't believe such a thing could be true. But in the 40's they figured the only way the country would survive is to make us a nation of consumers to ensure a steady flow of merchandise out the door. Encouragement to take advantage of credit soon followed and here we are--broke. Start breaking the chain! Don't use credit cards if at all possible and if you do, pay the balance each month. Don't be in debt. If everyone would do that we would break the hold of the banks and would no longer be a country that depends on credit and consumers! It would be a hard thing to adjust to but much better than the depression that I feel is coming.

that sounds really bad, i think people are really desperate enough at this times to sell their freedom for the promise of security and safety but like you said it is already starting and its only a matter of time that the government will own everything, and it will be too late when people will realize what has happened. probably because they are too busy being entertained to notice.

The capping of executives' salaries. I'm not one who thinks they should get such ridiculous salaries but that's capitalism and they're free to do what they want with their businesses. Socialism is when businesses are owned by the government, not the people, and the gov't dictates what the businesses can do. I realize the prez is doing this ostensibly to protect the peoples' investment but that's a very convenient reasoning to get the government finger in the pie of private enterprise and I fear it will continue until the government owns us all. It's happened before. Before you think I'm an alarmist, this is how it starts, slowly and with reasoning that seems to be perfectly sound. And people who are desperate enough to let it happen.

It's a diabolically clever package as far as I'm concerned. It sets the stage for even more of a nanny government, making people more dependent on government services and money. I see it as further steps into socialism.

What a funny picture! and maybe slash the tires on her private jet, huh?

Superglue in her lip gloss!

I think that the Prez made a mistake when he raised expectations to a fever pitch and he was voted in with so many people thinking he could solve everything. I think people are going to be in for a rude awakening and I hope they won't accept the socialist policies I think I see coming. I hope I'm wrong. But if the Prez would just think about what he would do to his family's budget if it were in trouble, he would come up with some much better solutions.

I don't think she was thinking. I think she just thought it was very important to make a point in the most dramatic way possible. I heard late yesterday that she was corrected by a reporter and graciously thanked him. But I don't like the way that fear is being used to make us pressure for the stimulus bill that won't do a darn thing for anyone but only prolong this crisis.

I did find out a few minutes ago that someone corrected her and she graciously thanked them. Still, she didn't do her homework. Kind of scary when our officials expect us to believe everything they say. What's scarier is that a large number of people do!

Your last sentence speaks volumes about why we have the government we do--people are too lazy to check facts and believe everything they hear as long as the person saying it has a public office. We need to quite being sheep and start growing some horns!

The problem is that both democrats and republicans will vote for anyone that has the lead in their party's race, no matter their politics or beliefs. They go blindly with the party line and it doesn't matter if someone else is a better choice. With Pelosi, I think they wanted to get women on their side but I'm really not sure why they chose her.

She is a very attractive person but if she'd pay as much attention to her job and her words as she did her appearance she'd be a real asset!

If I wanted to be paranoid I could say that it's a very purposeful set of actions in order to destroy us. The Marines have a system--destroy a man's ego then build him the way you need him to be. I think that might be what's being done here. This is a campaign of scare tactics so that all this socialist stuff will pass and the people will be in a frenzy to see it come to fruition and excited to see it begin to happen. We are being brainwashed by one of the best.