WOW Ken. You are the man! Yes, money dried up and the plants shut down. But lets still blame Labor cause it is easier! If we all worked for $5.00 an hour in this country we could still not compete with the Chinese I bet. When trade between different countries started some 200 years ago, we traded for things we did NOT have like silk, tea, some jewels and so forth. We never traded for things we had like steel, food, medicines etc. We just need to start producing the things we used to do on tighter budgets, a breather from the EPA and stricter trade enforcements. Why import something we can produce or make here? We used to lead the Industrialized Nations in everything! We have to get back on track before they remove the word "factory" from our dictionaries.