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In Mina, Nevada, the only jobs going are bartending at the ironically named Silver King, and cooking, or other unspecified duties, at the local (legal) whorehouse. A Mina ranch with a 100 year history was closed down by a Nevada Department of Fish and Game SWAT team on account of the stockman, unable to make a living on reduced BLM grazing allotments had started raising "desert lobsters" for Las Vegas casinos in his home ranch (private property) hot spring, but had made the mistake of "fishing" for same without a license. I am told that the "professional girls," also have to have a certificate of health posted in their place of business.

Got at little lost through thinking the injustice of it all in the last paragraph. From the under-educated frontier local yokel, western point of view, what I really want to ask our "Captains of Industry"—having witnessed the decline of the financial power of America following WWII—is what happened to our merchant marine of U.S. ships that were responsible for winning so many battles; or fishermen who fought a good battle against corporate Japanese floating processing plants, by going personally bankrupt; and the loggers and lumbermen who knew, even without an ivy covered college degree, that the spotted owl nested in other places than old growth forests; or how our miners who were the heroes of stockpiling strategic metals in the Cold War, could be so politically incorrect to have been replaced by half starved children, breathing noxious fumes in Peru; and how stockmen who don't buy into the unnatural idea of raising feed lot cattle on the reprocessed intestines of their fathers and mothers, instead of rounding up cattle on big ranches in wilderness Montana now owned by Hollywood movie stars, got smeared with the concept that the American icon—underpaid cowboys who get stuck working sheep out of economic necessity— are gay? Hard to believe we once were heroes.

Think all things high tech will save us? How come I am writing this on a computer (once advertised as a super-computer that couldn't legally be exported from the US) was built in Shanghi, China. That's the answer! Lets sell another of the big six iron ore properties in Michigan, to China, so they in turn can keep those WalMart bound imports crossing the dock in Long Beach, so that a demand for high paying longshoreman jobs will keep the Southern California housing boom going.