More than meets the eye...

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The conspiracy theorists have got it all wrong. There is more than is obvious, much more than that which hides beneath the surface. The *911 Attack* was a genuine terrorist attack on our country. WTC 7 fell not because it was "pulled", but because of engineering that never accounted for one of the twin towers falling on top of it and igniting a fire that could not be extinguished. That said, let's take a better look at the economy before the *911 Attack*. In Thursday's feature, I mentioned the Stock Market closed below 10,000 on September 7, 2001. That caused a great deal of concern. There was a sentiment that the floor was yet to be found. Some feared that the bottom might fall out Monday the 10th. Monday wasn't so bad, stocks closed at 9,605.50. It could have been much worse. Some expected it could go to 9,000 -- or below. How about jobs? Was the Bush administration doing all they could to protect American jobs at the time? Let's take a look at a CNN.com article - Could your job go to China? dated September 7, 2001. "But what concerns Stephanie Luce, Ph.D., about her research data is not just her figure of at least 34,900 jobs -- and maybe twice that -- moving from the States to China in a seven-month period as a result of warming Washington-Beijing trade relations..." September 2001 -- before the *911 Attack* was either doomed or destined to be a very ugly month -- one way or the other. From Business Net the headline read, "Layoffs reach 250,000 for month of September". Mind you, that was statisticallly, and statistics can always be adjusted to suit one's purposes. Much more to come...