I think that if conditions continue as they are now, very soon America is soon going to become a "third world country" .These days, we have so little manufacturing of products, there is no way the economy will improve. I , also, want the work returned to our own soil. What's happened to the American work ethic? When I was a kid, I was taught if I wanted something, I'd have to work for it. Well, in general, my generation did work and just handed everything to our kids--they don't want to work unless they're making not less than twenty bucks an hour...therefore, now that they are in charge, they have sent all manufacturing overseas---now the day of reckoning is upon us. We need to return to the practice of providing for ourselves. The adage is that charity begins at home; what happens when all the charity disappears? ( for example..SSI checks, Medicaid, food stamps )