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To: tekboy who wrote (30761)	5/26/2002 4:53:03 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

while it happens elsewhere as well, the fact is that the US is so far and away the richest and strongest power on the globe that it is uniquely well-positioned and able to afford acting big rather than small... it is hard to explain the rich part to the folks in the central Carolinas who are now faced with one of the highest manufacturing unemployment rates in the country after all the jobs floated overseas. it is hard to explain the rich part to the steel workers who were laid off...and only a fraction will now be hired back. it is hard to explain the rich part to the 20,000 united airlines employees or the 10,000 wcom employees or the 7,000 qwst workers who were laid off as a direct result of the foreign attack on the America on 9/11. several studies have shown the economic hit to the US economy from 9/11 is approaching $1.3 trillion. imo the biggest problem for us with that kind of terrorist success is not the actual loss but the increased motivation it gives the perpetrators to do it again and again. i have an appropriate comment to make, about how clinton's non response to previous terrorism set this up that should be interjected here, but i'll restrain myself this once. what really amazes me is how many folks do not realize that the nasdaq dropped from over 5,000 to under 2500 while clinton was still in office. clinton gets credit for economic prosperity even though the country's stock markets were plunging during his tenure. unclewest