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It is a shame that the economic world is waiting for the consumer to pull us out of this economic hole we are in. It isn’t going to happen.

The corporations that have laid us off and cut our jobs are the ones that need to start spending money to get this going again.

If big business does not spend money, nothing moves.

The floor traders are just as bad, selling off in record numbers because their customers have no guts to start buying and turn this around.

There is no spirit and American risk-taking in this country as far as this market goes, before and since Sept. 11. It is easier to cut 100,000 jobs than to try to stabilize the market. Risk-taking is what made this country great in the first place.