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...told, Japanese companies have built 11 new assembly plants in North America, which employ 33,000 workers. The first was Honda, which manufactures Accords and Civics at two plants near Columbus, Ohio. Among the other newcomers are Nissan, which assembles Sentras and pick-up trucks in Smyrna, Tenn., and Toyota, which builds the Camry in Georgetown...
...last week Congress at least cleared the way to passing a budget, thereby averting what would have been the second government shutdown since Columbus Day. After a bitter partisan fight, Congress struggled to reconcile House and Senate versions of a bill designed to cut $500 billion from the deficit over five years. The final plan was bound to extract more revenues from the most affluent taxpayers than the bipartisan proposal that was dumped by the House two weeks ago. But it was also certain to inflict pain on middle-income earners, who were already outraged at the lawmakers' willingness...
...Columbus Day crack-up -- and the week of budget blustering that followed -- can serve as a lasting metaphor for national decline. Picture a government so broke and divided that patriotic tourists in Washington were caught between frustration (closed monuments) and farce (Congress in session). The public reaction was rage, an indiscriminate mad-as-hell roar. The politicians responded at first in typical fashion: posturing and finger pointing in an effort to apportion partisan blame...
...suggest that anyone interested in this controversy refer directly to Columbus' own diaries and decide for him or herself. Just keep in mind that the almost forgotten natives of the Carribean whom Columbus killed never had a chance to write their side of the story...
...Vellucci, since I do not expect you to overcome your obvious insensitivity, I imagine that you will continue to take blind pride in Christopher Columbus in the same way that a few nostalgic Italians take pride in Il Dulce...