Face it guys we have such a intertwined world, it's like a balloon--you squeeze one end and the other bulges out!? unless any segment gets too greedy things can be worked out, but it seems like the pressure is coming from the wrong place at this time.? We helped with international development, then when some of them find "our country" inviting we ship them out via prison flights.? Watch the Godfather series and hundreds stories like it!? We welcomed cheap labor for laying the Central Pacific then we passed laws against them.

Let me address John H. here, I did photography for a Chinese machine tool manufacturer just a few years ago; they rented a large hall that filled with high-end tech tools for sale--so they do sell stuff! ?

Over the last thirty years of covering many industrial segments--I've covered those clients from bio research to waste (yes sewage) management with outer space and food in the middle? Most is available for sale by somebody for somebody else!? Our mass producers decided to go offshore, set up production and reaped the rewards!? Then those folks quickly learned how to do things on their own--what did we expect!?

I could go on but I'm still on a quest to get my layout up and running, and as many have mentioned talking to the choir will get you like-minded members of the same church and disagreements with most of the others!

I've got to replace some 'blown off' vinyl siding--hurricanes do that sometimes!--on the second story for sure!,? I wonder if Angie and her list members also might have a DCC? wiring guy to source out what the H---I screwed up!!?? BTW most of Digitrax equipment is made here in Florida, but I bet the little parts come from elsewhere!

Bob Werre

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