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To: TobagoJack who wrote (33749)	4/26/2008 3:56:33 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217792

Skype-ing with wife: Discussing U.S. economy. It started when I wrote I was surprised cell phones are being considered non-essential in the U.S. Her friend returned from FLA. Her other friend in FLA reports: dropped price 3x and still can't sell apartment. I told what klaser said: apt price will be eroded by inflation etc. Then discussion diverted to scaling back scaling out. So you eat out but eat in a less expensive place and I explained the post tech bubble times when my pole-climbing m one dried up and we scaled back etc. The she said: What I want to know is if they will still buy Halloween costumes and dump into the dustbin following day. Most likely not, I replied. She said something really clever: One point this is good for the rest of the world: The US exerts a tremendous influence in other people's cultures. A scale back and a scale out in the U.S. will teach the rest of the world: waste is not intelligent.