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but merely agonizing.

Jobs ranging from white-collar Information Technology programmers to blue-collar assembly line workers have disappeared in droves for several reasons - United States corporations can out-source these positions to countries such as India, Pakistan, Mexico, China with no penalty and only improvement to their bottom line and their god of profit at any cost. The world and especially the United States was not prepared for the exponential growth of the Internet; along with that growth came the elimination of thousands of clerical, administrative and other positions that are now replaced by a few mouse-clicks by these same displaced technology workers who have time during the day while they look for their next job to balance their checkbooks, shop for a few items or pay their bills at their desktop computer. The workers at these jobs must have an alternative - employing them in clean, alternative energy jobs, as proposed by Senator Obama is as good a proposal as I have heard. The other day, a cheerful meter reader, here in Austin, Texas, knocked on my door to inform me that my electricity would be shut off for a few seconds while he completed installation of automatic meter readers, at which time I immediately wondered where the hundreds of meter readers just locally would find their next jobs. Progress is important, but along with that consideration must be made for the people that will lose jobs because of this progress. Americans are not lazy, nor do they want something for nothing, but they also need to see an alternative, a chance for a second chance.

THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS: Immediately after 9/11/2001, significant in that the date is now over seven years ago, the United States had the sympathy of the world, the goodwill of its people and support for Mr. Bush at one of the highest levels in the history of the presidential office. By any reasonable estimation, "The War Against Terror," would, by its very terms, be against a nebulous, often undefined opponent, not necessarily aligned with any specific country. Because of that, any strikes or offensives made by the United States would need to be as specific as possible given the vague and ambiguous playing field now at hand. On the other hand, a government seeking to exploit these tragic, overwhelming tactics could do so by misdirecting their aims and making allegations for other purposes, all of which the Bush Administration has done.

Iraq played no part in the 9/11 attacks, but became the

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