for what americans make. it goes back to the currency issue with china. the oil deficit. the president running around encouraging factories at very high costs that, you know, employ 300 more people to make batteries doesn t do a whole lot to deal with the energy deficit. there are things we could do on both those scores but the president doesn t like the answers. like what? we have a lot of onshore natural gas we re not using and build out the natural gas pipeline in new england. we could do more with wind mills off shore in the northeast. things of that nature. with regard to china, if it won t revalue its currency we can revalue it for them. we can set the value of our currency. there are ways of doing that. one of the critics i read about stimulus projects, granted if you build a bridge to nowhere you will hire people for a certain period of time to build that bridge but at the end what you have is, a bunch of billions of dollars spent on a bridge to nowhere that nobody really