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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (65327)	3/30/2004 2:54:12 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77397

I try to invest to make money and that means buying companies that benefit from current trends. Now if you can convince everyone to pay $6 a lb for fresh spinach sitting out where everyone can sneeze on it at Safeway rather than going to Costco where I get 3 lbs of it for $3.59... then you might be able to slow the offshoring trend. The cost savings are so significant that I have no problems throwing away some food that goes bad from buying more than I can use because what matters is overall cost.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (65327)	3/30/2004 8:34:27 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77397

You said 3M jobs were lost under president Bush I asked if you knew how many were working today vs when President Bush took office. RE: I don't know I went to the BLS (http://www.bls.gov/data/home.htm ) and looked up how many people are working. Jan 2000 = 211,410,000 Jan 2001 = 213,888,000 Jan 2004 = 222,161,000 Civilian noninstitutional population It sure looks to me that more are working today than when Bush took office. Source = Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey Access to Historical Data for the "A" Tables of the Employment Situation Release.