Walter,

Please keep in mind that the optimism some discuss is not shared by all.
As the latest polls show, it is shared my a very small majority.

>>>Am I reading right. Did you just equate the ketchup business with the military industrial complex? I'm sure at this very moment Heinz and Hunt's have a large contigent of lobbyists arguing for that new law that will only let you call your stuff ketchup if it uses tomatoes from the vine.
>>
>>Read my response to Alex.
>>
>>>
>>>Am I not convinced there was a little hanky panky going on with Whitewater? I'm sure there was something there. But current events are getting very, very ugly.
>>>
>>>How you can try and defend is beyond me.
>>>
>
>>You are the only one here shouting doom and gloom. I don't buy into your pessimistic viewpoints.
>
>Which I would label typical american naive optimism. Walking away from reality. Don't get me wrong, we here in europe have the opposite problem. Deep unrealistic pessimism. Both are bad, real bad....
>
>Walter,