90% of corn and soybean exports are barged down the Mississippi? What corn and soybeans exports? The same drought that turned the mighty river into a giant mud slide also crippled crop production last year nation wide. Large farms that still produced crops did so by irrigation, using the water that ultimately would hav...more

Let them go, it's a "free" country isn't it? let's make it a bundle deal, several other Southern States should be allowed to follow.

Double taxation without true representation? Sounds like the American thing to do. Considering the Supreme courts recent decision declaring corporations "people", If I were to legally incorporate myself would I then be considered an important enough "person" to buy legitimate congressional representation? Thought not.....more

The only thing that "trickles down" to the average citizen is best flushed down the toilet....

Toward the end of Bush's 2nd term America's financial district was spiraling towards total monetary collapse. In order to avert a worldwide economic meltdown we mortgaged our children's future and bailed Wall street and all the giant financial concerns out of the mess they created. After receiving "golden parachutes" c...more

American corporations are building new factories by the hundreds....but they are located in China, Mexico, India....

I agree but wish average American's had more than beans, spam and bills to eat for dinner. That's the main difference between the "good 'ol days" and the present.

American's are too naive to realize their elected leaders sold them out to the highest bidders.

We were "pushed" off that cliff by Bush and it doesn't look like Obama's going to catch us.