Tuesday Stories: AmEx Results; Fannie; Toilet Paper; New York's Sad State

The loss of jobs in america in one day are mind-boggling. The old saying,"there's no depression until you find yourself out of a job,while your neighbor goes off to work daily"! This becomes a paradox to you? The reason I mention this,is only for the fact that "Wall Street" wants free trade, and no-protectionism when it comes to sending out bids to China,and India for our infrastucture steel,etc. They hate the ideal of,"Buy American" if only for a brief moratorium til this debacle subsides. Can you imagine if ever there was a war, we would be caught literally with our pants down. We have no large steel plants built capable for producing weaponry,in the scale needed if ,"God Forbid" something does happen! Also,let us not forget that all of our manufacturing industries have been outsourced years ago,leaving us basically sitting ducks. So lets build america back,from the bottom-up,and create jobs here in america,and not be ashamed to say "Made in America",and respond with a "Nay" to the "Free Market Wall Street",that got us in this fix in the first place. Thanks, Brian JMHO

here Brian you want to know where the bottom is ? http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/storyart/dataparty012709.jpg note level at 2001 I'd say when we hit there, we're somewhat back to normal. THAT simple. you never write