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LOL! No.. It might mean that illegals now don't like this country anymore and need them to go back to their mother country!

But that will stop just as soon as that Yacht maker who AFTER paying for employees, equipment, healthcare, etc. gets taxed by Obama on his GROSS income instead of his Net!

Then illegals will be back to strapping innertubes to empty drums, and a makeshit paddle, as the small business man has to let them go.

Abunai, the big "yachts" have already been ordered and Obama hasn't been elected yet. Perhaps it is just a case of wishful thinking on your part........are you wearing your Obama/Biden button?

Your point about the "illegals" previously making so much money that they can afford a yacht to return to Mexico is well taken. Perhaps they also see it ending if McCain is defeated.

Abunai, CynPro was quoting me with the use of the words "trickle down."

BTW, your statement: "The economy will just evaporate as the jobs do." shows that you have a sense of humor!!

In case you haven't recently read the papers or watched the TV, our economy is in the tank and getting worse with the rising unemployment and Obama isn't the President. I keep telling you that you need to get out more!

The only strength that the McCain campaign presently has is the fact that Palin is so familiar with Russia. LOL

Meb452m, as you are probably aware, there is a tendency by businesses in this country to employ skilled tradesmen and buy materials abroad if they are less expensive. There has also been a trend for some time now, to eliminate education/training programs for the trades and to import less expensive skilled trades people from other countries. I know people in the trades who are still experiencing periods of unemployment.

BTW, you seem to be suggesting that anyone that cites facts that are not necessarily "positive" about the economic conditions in our country is a complainer. Not necessarily so, there are actually people who still care about facts instead of talking points.

And not everyone has to be personally affected by negative conditions in order to want to improve them for others.

Nightmare, "IF" the very wealthy people are doing well enough to order yachts over 80 feet in record numbers, it certainly seems feasible that they are all doing quite well. IF you subscribe to "trickle down" economic theory, it should then follow that the money should trickle down to the less wealthy individuals in our society.

Personally I don't subscribe to the "trickle down" theory, however there is certainly a large group of people who do, including McCain and Palin. And I respect opposing opinions being expressed with civility. Off-shore out-sourcing dates the theory as far as its applicability in the nationalistic sense.

Meb452m, you seemed to skip right past the comment about skilled trades, etc. that you mentioned earlier. Why is that? Didn't my answer suit your purposes?

Now you ask "what materials, systems and components are yachts composed of..."?

In your own words "Those yachts use a varity of high-dollar material and talent during construction,operation and maintainence." Sounds good to me!!

However, I don't quite understand why you ask me a question after you had already stated the answer which I did not disagree with.

Perhaps you are experiencing a bit of frustration which exhibits or manifests itself in confusion. I hope that tomorrow is a better day for you.

Meb452, you probably wouldn't recognize it if you saw it.

Meb452m, when all else fails you resort to name calling. I guess that that it is in keeping with the highest traditions of the Republican Party.

I used to also refer to Republicans as Conservatives, but GW has changed all of that and McCain epitomizes the Republicans' fall from grace. The primary differences that I have between a Republican and a Conservative, is that the Conservative might well be an educated, thinking person who is capable of more than parroting talking points or name calling.

BTW, you never did address my comments about the skilled trades. Did you forget again? Or perhaps not comprehend what I wrote? It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.....enjoy.

Take you're time, if you're watching Mr.Rodgers I can understand!

Meb452, boats are different from airplanes. Boats, yachts usually don't have wheels.....

Here is a link if you want to read about visas for foreign workers. It is a bit dated but it is brief without any big words to confuse you.

http://tntalk.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/gates-demands-mo
re-foreign-workers-in-usa/

Here's another link for data on the skilled trades in ship yards.

http://www.stormingmedia.us/71/7112/A711254.html

However note that I was referring to the general population benefiting from the trickle down of the monies that have obviously benefited the very wealthy. Why is unemployment so high?