[Captain Kwok]

Gil - Perhaps you should acknowledge the fact that your country's big corporations go into these countries and while paying them next to nothing for well paying jobs here just so you can save a few bucks on your next electronics purchase. Perhaps if these corporations paid the people something they wouldn't keep trying to live your life in your country. Plus - you ever try going through the INS? I couldn't believe what a racist and discriminatory dis-service it was. It's an unfortunate problem but maybe the people in charge can consider a better remedy?

Secondly - I'll take my "BANKRUPT" health care system that doesn't discrimate and gives everyone the equal access to medical treatment over a HMO system that allows people to be treated like second-class citizens because of the amount of money in their wallet or some guy in some office decides that treatment is too expensive. I'm sorry but you can keep spending billions of your tax dollars to drive your economy through your military but I don't think more big ships and a faulty missile defense screen is going to stop terrorism...the old white men in charge keep saying that 9/11 changed "things" but I don't see that it really has. You're hard EARNED dollars dissappear just as easily as ours.

Don't get me wrong - I like the United States. My wife is from there and I lived in the Northwest for a couple of years. It's a great country and has many more positives than negatives, but don't walk around thinking of yourselves as the most "enlightened" people on the Earth because that's just not right.