lowers wages promotes mergers makes hiring/firing much easier forces any small competitors out of business brings down oil prices lowers interest rates reduces union power two words, TAX CUTS for the rich more resistence to immigration reduced cheap imports via patriotism ... Sounds like a republican wet dream. So why are they bad again? ;) - Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg http://www.iit.edu/~beberg/ beberg@mithral.com