I saw an economist who had some interesting points about the economy. While she agreed that funding the Iraq and Afghan wars, runaway lending, etc. were huge factors in the current economic crisis, you can't blame it all on that. Thanks to the emergence of the global economy, this has been at least 20 years in the making.T We want cheaper goods and we have sacrificed jobs to get them. We complain about corporate farms, but nobody wants to pay $8 for a peach.

What we need to do is begin tight visa control to keep companies from bringing in foreign outsource companies and to have huge tariffs on companies that outsource their jobs overseas. It used to be manufacturing, then call centers, now it's IT, legal and medical. Why should your insurance company pay a US radiologist's fees when they can email your CAT scan to a doctor in Mumbai who read it for a fraction of the cost?