Kevin:

You need to wake up . . .

The economy is not improving, and with the Treasury Department's plan for redback dollars for foreign use only, which is slated to begin in 2004, the USA is going to see all of this fiscal irresponsibility catch up in a big hurry.

Economists call what we are going to soon see hyperinflation - the prices of thngs are going to devalue the US dollar greenback by as much as 98% without harm to the redback dollars which will be used only outside this country.

Kevin, you are a good man, and your heart is in the right place. However, as it relates to this subject, you simply do not know what you are talking about.

How does foreign policy affect our economy?

Well Mr. G. haven't you noticed that 99% of everything you buy at some retail store has a tag somewhere on it that says the item was made in China, Mexico, or Malayasia?

Even items that are still made within the USA are increasingly made by prison labor, where the prisoner is making twenty cents an hour. That too, has a huge affect on our economy.

Perhaps you should go do some learning about economics, and specifically, macroeconomics, before you go making foolish comments like you did where you said tthat foreign policy has no affect on our nation's economy.

Sorry, but, I have to call them as I see them.

~ Mason