Obivously you did not understand what i was trying to say, my point is that while we as americans countinue to buy items that are made in other countries at a growing rate while the value of the dollar against those same currencies that we buy these products from we are having to pay more american dollars for the same product we bought ten years ago. Since you may not understand this still i will use an example. If ten years ago a tv made in japan cost 100 yen to get to the USA it would cost us about let say 50 dollars. Well now that the dollar keeps droping now that TV which still cost 100 yen is going to cost 100 dollars, meaning it doubled in price. What fuels the drop of the dollar is the countinuing drop of the confidence in american fiscal policy.

Yes I was refering to walmart which is known for going into small commuties and destroying them with their supercenters. Maybe in the big cities where people have the chance to go somewhere else it is not as big. Were i grew when the first walmart went in, it shut down almost all of the smaller shops that sold things with in a ten mile radius.

One thing i think that is going to hurt americans also is the fact that the amount of credit in use today is alot higher then ten years ago. I have not worked numbers but it might be possible that this economic boom that bush and his cronies talk about is all on borrowed money. When this comes to a stop with the increase in interest rates what is going to happen?