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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Feb 23, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>  We don't have, as we once did, the strength of
> being the major producer of goods in the world and the major  
> agricultural
> country.

I have recently been reading papers and articles by Austan Goolsbee,  
Obama's economic advisor. In one of his articles he shows the real  
percentages of stuff we import. It is far smaller than I expected. We  
are still an economic powerhouse and largely self-sufficient.